“Chuck Talk: I understand that you are the
principle builder and architect for the Project Looking Glass
interface from Sun Microsystems. I have read that you built the
interface in your spare time, working to develop this unique new
interface. Your work is an amazing and inspiring innovation. I must
say that I am impressed, no matter what some may have written about
the technology, it is more intuitive to work in three dimensional
space, IMHO. Could you tell us where your inspiration came from for
the idea?“Hideya Kawahara: I’m just a geek who are
interested in 3D stuff, but not a 3D expert. Maybe like most of you
folks. I think this fact has heavy influence in the UI design
approach I took for Project Looking Glass…”