Download Project Looking Glass 1.0 stable

Today, after three years of development, the first final version of Project Looking Glass, an open source project started by Sun, has been released. Project Looking Glass is being developed in Java 3D and aims to develop a platform-independent 3D desktop environment. This means that windows can be rotated in all directions, can be placed next to and on top of each other like books and the back can be used to make notes. The developers of Project Looking Glass have run out this page provided download links to the 1.0 release binaries for Linux, Solaris, and Windows. Given the busyness of the servers at the moment, you may have to wait a while before the files can be downloaded at all. If you don’t have patience during the download, you can read this news item or the release notes in the meantime:

This release is the culmination of 3 years of work, starting with Hideya san who originally conceived of a bold, new type of window system, through the initial shake down of the proof-of-concept demo by an internal Sun community, followed by the open sourcing of the technology, which generated such enormous interest that it brought down the java.net servers several times. From that point on many people from around the globe have contributed to the project; contributing to the core, contributing applications, performing testing, writing and translating documentation, etc. The project owners (Hideya, Paul, Krishna and myself) are very grateful for all of the great contributions we have received from you, the LG community.[break]