Looking Glass

Jim Zaun, James Burke and Patrick McKercher used Looking Glass, Sun's new 3D desktop browser to create the first complex nested globe  (there's a mockup of nested globes in Activeworlds Education Universe, which has the virtue of being connected to immersive 3D worlds to explore , which can't be done in Looking Glass, but Jim actually had to work with matematicians at the Univ of Arizona to generate the globes).

Go Monkey is using their software as the basis of a Minority Report like interface you control with gestures. Using that to view K-Web in 3D a dome display or CAVE would be amazing. You can get info on LG and a link to the Go Monkey video at https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/

You can see a crude video of an early version here: http://scylla.cse.ucsc.edu:8080/05-06-16.mpg

The nested globes looked fantastic on Sharp's 3D laptop

We'll post a more refined version of the video soon.

Looking Glass also has a new scheduler program that might be a fun approach for k-web timeline:

http://k-www.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp/cosmo/index_e.html#screenshot

Here's what the Looking Glass version of K-Web looks like: