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Apple bringing its operating system into living 3D?
Engadget — If there's one problem with modern operating systems it's that they're all rather planar. Sure, OS X, Vista, and others have some 3D tricks up their sleeves, stacking windows and layering them on cubes and such, but when you get down to business everything's rather more Flatland than Lawnmower Man. Apple, at least, has a plan for changing that in its patent application titled "Multidimensional Desktop," unearthed ...

3D interface patents dug up by Macrumors
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Apple has submitted a number of patents for a 3D desktop metaphor interface according to Macrumors.  While many vendors have had their own designs (Microsoft, Sun - Project Looking Glass, etc), this is the first design patent for Apple that we can remember.  Snow Leopard, expected in early to mid 2009, isn't supposed to have major design changes. ...

3D desktop revealed in Apple patent filing
CNET News - Apple — ... Are you ready for a 3D desktop? Apple is working on such a project, according to patent filings unearthed by MacRumors this week. The "multidimensional desktop" applications suggest that Apple wants to take ...

Apple turns next operating system's 3D prowess up to 11
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: OS, Rumors, Odds and ends Apple, not shy of shaking things up in the interface department, has been sitting on its laurels since the release of OS X earlier this decade. Sure, iPod changed the way we think about music and iPhone has completely turned the mobile phone industry around, but the Mac OS has been relatively static in terms of how users navigate within the environment since the release of 10.0. The good news, however, is that Apple is working on a way to change the way we interact with our systems. MacRumors has uncovered information on a patent titled "Multi-Dimensional Desktop" which depicts a three-dimensional environment that looks somewhat like viewing a room from one end. The ...