What were the theoretical benefits to having a 3d ui on

>>60618725
It looks cool.

none, it just looks cool as fuck

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>>60618725
I think the marketing behind the whole 3d ui thing in operating systems in general was that it was in an era where people were more comfortable working in a 3-dimensional space like their desks with papers and shit. I think some managers or marketers thought they could try and sell that and some people might have bought into it but it never took off for obvious reasons. On a related note, I am trying to remember the name of a built in "file explorer" type thing on a windows machine I used to have. It was some packard bell in the mid to late 90's and it loaded up some house with rooms and you can store shortcuts on a book shelf and shit.

I can see it being useful to control/monitor a huge ass park tbqh.

theoretically looks cool

>>60618725
This was a real program. fsn.

Here's a clone.

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

Try it for yourself, see how much you like it. (It sucks balls)

>>60619083

Im more impressed it could render the 3d interface at all much less be somewhat functional.

>>60618789
>It was some packard bell in the mid to late 90's and it loaded up some house with rooms and you can store shortcuts on a book shelf and shit.
Sounds retarded senpai.

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>>60619232
Remember when people were praising Apple for doing exactly that?

>>60619134
Irix was built for computer graphics, you'd have like 10 expansion cards of dedicated video memory in SGI machines.

>>60619721

Ah. With that kind of set up it had to be for pure comercial use than. Unless theres someth practicality im missing. Though i guess at that time computers were still working out a standard so i shouldn't be suprised about that.

>>60620175
>>60619721
As a point of reference a refurbished SGI Crimson (likely what she was supposedly using in the movie, as there's one next to the desk) sold for $72,000 in 1995.

These were not inexpensive machines.

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>>60620175
This is what the card cage on a Crimson looked like with a Reality Engine graphics set installed.

>>60620579

Good God

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>>60620869
This is how it looks normally. The cardcage is behind the main door, and the drives are behind the grey door.

@alusion
JanusVR

>>60620579
BRRAAAAAAAAAAPPP

>>60619134
My old RS/6000 system from 1990 can render it fine, you are kinda confused about computing history I think, that was nothing special around that time, for a workstation.