Comments on: Windows DreamScene to support 3D rendering?

By: 3D

3D — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:51:01 +0000

@Jorge: you can find some free 3d animated dreamscenes on http://www.dreamscene.org

By: alex

alex — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:41:01 +0000

this was in winamp2 milk plugin

By: Jorge

Jorge — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:15:17 +0000

Free 3D animations will be really good!

By: Brad Wardell

Brad Wardell — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:39:15 +0000

Long – trust me, you are reading too much into it.

By: Jean-Loup WEISZ

Jean-Loup WEISZ — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:43:55 +0000

Deskscapes is cool but their best dreams aren’t free so i hope MS will provide us some good free 3d animations.

By: Ely

Ely — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:38:43 +0000

Very interesting; we’ll have to wait and see what actually happens, 3D rendering would be really nice though.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:48:47 +0000

@Brad Wardell: I know I should listen to you since you are probably the closest person to the DreamScene people, but somehow I don’t see the difference between video and a video featuring 3D scenery. It’s still a video.

To specify both video and 3D images sounds like it suggests they are two completely separate entities.

It’s a trademark by the way, not a patent. Would not affect Stardock.

By: mrmckeb

mrmckeb — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:33:26 +0000

Well I’d be impressed with a space scene or something of the sort… Wouldn’t it be cool to have Deep Space Nine on your background with the occasional Federation ship docking onto it? Lol, I love Star Trek.

But this could be a very compelling feature!

By: Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:44:10 +0000

This would be great!
It would explain the delay too..

By: Brad Wardell

Brad Wardell — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 19:07:27 +0000

I don’t speak for Microsoft but the patent is not for *dynamic* 3D desktops but video imagery (like the nature scenes) and 3D generated images (like Aurora or the ones Stardock Design made for Microsoft that come with Windows DreamScene).

Stardock DeskScapes predates Windows DreamScene with the capability to do both video and dynamic 3D. So the patent wouldn’t affect Stardock in any way and Stardock has no plans to patent the technology. Stardock didn’t patent GUI skinning either. Microsoft later patented its uxtheme skinning technology which is effectively the same as what WindowBlinds does.