From: Jason Jerald [jjerald@isl.hrl.hac.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 2:04 PM
To: Maarten van Dantzich; 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Member introduction


The 3d window manager you mention sounds somewhat like what I am doing. 
Is there any information on this that I can access?

My current project deals with interacting with 2d applications in
immersive environments.  This may not be the best way to interact in 3d
but it is the quickest and most convienent.  For example I do not think
a user would want to write a calculator application just to use it in an
immersive environment.  It should be easy to pull up an existing
application such as powerpoint or netscape.  Many of these applications
are 2d in nature anyways so there is not much benefit in going to full
3d in such cases.  I am currently working on a 3d window system which is
similar to 2d window functionality such as scaling, minimizing, etc. in
addition to features such as eye following.

I am also new to this list.  There was some discussion in the archives
about such work previously.  In particular the 3dwm work at
http://www.medialab.chalmers.se/projects/3dwm/index.html
is interesting.

Jason



Maarten van Dantzich wrote:
> 
> I quietly joined the list a while back.
> 
> I'm in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction group at Microsoft Research,
> working with George Robertson, Ken Hinckley, Dan Robbins, et al. on 3D UI
> for the desktop. I was one of the implementers of the Data Mountain (3D UI
> for Web Favorites & for personal document management in general), and more
> recently we built the Task Gallery, a 3D window manager that hosts real
> (unmodified) Windows applications. In general we try to do 3D with a very
> low barrier to entry (2D interaction technques, no special devices) while
> still getting some of the advantages of 3D visuals (perceptual cues, spatial
> metaphor, etc.); we also try to do some psych studies to probe some basic
> research issues--most notably use of spatial memory as an aid to organizing.
> 
> >> Maarten.

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