What would it be like?
I'm thinking you would have to use a track ball with two balls, one for side-to-side and up-down, and the other for forward and backward and rotation.
Icons might need to be semi-transparent and 3D blocks or spheres or whatever.
Most program windows would probably still be flat, but with 3d elements scattered about. The window could be dragged around and layed flat, or at angles.
The mouse pointer would have to be a ball that is dragged around and maybe bound by gravity so that it bounces off of screen elements. I don't see how an arrow would work because arrows are generally only two dimensional.
I have no idea where the start button would be or what it would look like.
It could either have one screen and show a virtual 3D environment or you could by two screens. One screen in a normal position and one placed horizontally above it and a slanted semi-transparent mirror. I think this might provide a 3D look because each screen would be offset slightly for alignment with each eye.
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Microsoft Word would show a piece of paper with pens for fonts and sizes and a dictionary setting next to it for the spell check. If you want to change something you move the ball (mouse pointer) to the pen you want and click it.
Minesweeper would be a flat playing field and when you mark a mine it stands up a flag or when you uncover a mine, it explodes 3D.
I wonder when something like this will happen.....
Edit: okay, I guess I didn't explicitly say so, but.... what are your thoughts, ideas, criticism?
Is there an OS already out there that does this?