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The major movie companies have decided that now is the time to start moving to 3-D, and those glasses are going to become ubiquitous. We're also going to see polarized TVs come out (so we don't see everything in red and blue) and I'm predicting that we'll see the same on computer screens as well, since movies are almost as much for the laptop as the TV now.
So, let's have KDE lead the way, and be the first Linux environment to fully support 3-D usage! Imagine the ring-switcher throwing windows out at you. Imagine snow falling not on your desktop, but all around it. Imagine your active window 4 inches in front of all your other windows, and a smooth transition when you switch to another window. Imagine a bouncy ball plasmoid that bounces in a cube instead of a box. Imagine using blender and seeing your model in true 3-D while you sculpt it. Yadda yadda yadda
Now there are two ways to do this. One is the red-cyan/yellow-blue method that everyone is familiar with. The other is through polarization, which can only be done if the user has a special screen. I don't know the link, but I know I have seen a video with one of these screens in it, so they do exist among normal people. Both are very similar, implementation wise, so I think we should support both.
Oh, and compiz has this as an experimental plugin. (Anaglyph Plugin)

Links:
http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/03/ ... d-glasses/
http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/ ... 3d-compiz/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p29AlhC ... re=related

That's very cool, but I feel that future is in multi-touch screens not in 3D.
Or maybe possibly something that incorporates both.
I'll give you +1 for ingenuity.