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Tactile 3D : Your Desktop in 3D

Tactile 3D is a user interface made to browse and organize all your existing files in 3D using shapes and sounds to identify folders and files on your hard drive. [free trial]

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8 Responses to “Tactile 3D : Your Desktop in 3D”

    a gravatar Sporky

    Waaaay cool! I’ve been wondering for YEARS when the “desktop” would finally get a Z axis. This is a great start in that direction. One might expect the brilliant, oh so “innovative” visionaries at Microsoft to sooner or later do something outside of the box (or the plane actually), but we just keep getting more of the same. I guess you could say that creativity there is just plane flat. Maybe we’ll eventually get a drop shadow on the BSOD text or something…

    Kudos to the folks at Upper Bound!

    a gravatar chemo

    Great idea and fun,,,,,,,for awhile,,,,until you are in a rush to find something and then you have to start trying to remember what keystroke does what, as if I didn’t have enough keystrokes for this and that proggie I have a hard enough time trying to remember as it is, or for that matter enough of everything digital I own that has it’s own little set of kinky-know-how-to-operate interfaces. THREE DEE has just that much more complexity to it that a mouse is just not able to deal with 3d’s demands. SOME DAY….

    a gravatar Cyberalle

    You must try meeting3D on this site http://www.tixeo.com . It’s a collaborative tool and must say that i am very impressed by the 3D interface.

    a gravatar m-coole

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