3D interface of future OS from Microsoft


    On April 5, Microsoft received a patent for a three-dimensional user interface ( pdf ) “Method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional task gallery computer interface”. The document is quite voluminous, full of drawings and diagrams, but even a quick look at it allows you to make an impression of the ideas developed in the bowels of the Redmond company.
    Frankly, the graphic content of the patent is by no means amazing, so it’s pointless to give screenshots from the document, except for the most obvious one. In a brief description, the new interface of Microsoft operating systems is a view of the "virtual office" (in fact, a kind of room, in the original - virtual office), approximately what it looks like in first-person shooter games. The system, tracking the direction and duration of the pointing device, allows the user to move around the room, creating “tasks” (a set of windows) that can be grouped in their separate “rooms”. The programmer can create the "interior" of the room as he wishes, combining the "room objects" and textures on them as he sees fit, and determining the reaction to user actions. Here it will be completely unsurprising

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