Folks --

You might all be amused to know that Project X was done by Ramanathan Guha
while he was working in our group at Apple. He was "the other really smart
guy" in Doug Lenat's CYC project, came to Apple, then went to Netscape, and
is now part of a new startup.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:59 PM -0800 2/5/00, Lawson English wrote:
>I'm amazed. I actually found what appears to be a genuine live link.
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><http://www.xspace.net/>
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>Project X was an abandoned project from Apple to create a 3D MetaContent
>Framework browser. The idea is that hierarchical content (e.g., file
>directories, webpage directories, etc), can be "flown through" by creating
>a series of "clouds" of directories. It worked pretty darned well, in my
>opinion, but was a victim of Apple's never-ending search to cut costs by
>cutting out all R&D programs.
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>There are apparently lots of other possible uses. Check out the white paper
>at the site.
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>On Sat, Feb 5, 2000 6:53 PM, John Clonts <jclonts at mastnet.net> wrote:
>>URL for ProjectX?  Web search was not fulfilling....
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>>Cheers,
>>John
>>
>>Lawson English wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 5, 2000 6:14 PM, Martin B. Pomije <pomije at inav.net>  wrote:
>>> >John-Reed Maffeo wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hey, why not go the whole way with a 3D Browser interface.
>>> >> I have seen the Mac Project X (I think?) which was a first
>>> >> rough cut and there was some SciFi movie(Johnnie Mnemonic?) that had
>a
>>> >> 3DVR browser.
>>> >>
>>> >> We could define a whole set of XML tags for specifying the 3D
>>> >> character of the site. Whoo, Whoo!
>>> >>
>>> >> John-Reed
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >I haven't seen any evidence that 3D navigation makes for a good
>>> >interface.  3D has its uses, but Jakob Nielsen pretty much sums up my
>>> >feeling about it here:
>>> >http://www.useit.com/alertbox/981115.html
>>>
>>> DId you ever see the Project X interface?
>>>
>>> I read the above article and he doesn't appear to make reference to it
>at
>>> all and none of his generic objections really applies to it that I can
>see.
>>>
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