The 3D scene sure seems to be hopping lately. Spheresite.com offers two beta products: a 3D desktop called SphereXP and a 3D browser called SphereXPlorer.

I tried them both and wasn’t impressed. Yeah, you can rotate windows back into a 3D space, but if you launch a new application it is still 2D. I never did figure out how to spawn new 3D browser windows (didn’t try that hard or that long though). Someday I think we will have a true immersive 3D experience on our desktops and that will be cool, but it’s still too soon. Better off going with a Massive Multiplayer Online world like Second Life than this if you want to spend more time in a 3D space. Working in 3D would have many, many possibilities beyond working in a 2D space. I’m looking forward to that day which I fully expect will be at some point in my lifetime, health willing.

Thanks Web Randomness.