Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 218
Another stab: You exist in a 3d world. Your brain is pretty good at navigating in a 3d world. And, you can display more information in 3d than you can in 2d. It gives you a whole other dimension to play with.
All the information on your computer *could* be presented in 1d. At some point, it really was. Adding the extra dimension made it a heck of a lot easier to display information, and allowed you to stuff more info onscreen at one time.
The win from 3d vs. 2d isn't as huge as the win from 2d vs. 1d...because really, you can process 3 dimensions, but in the end it ends up being 2d. Still, it's a win.
IMHO, a lot of the possible uses for 3d interfaces haven't been invented yet, and probably won't be until they exist.
I'm in love with the idea of Croquet. It seemed silly to me at first, it doesn't anymore.
