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VMware Fusion - 3D Cube Effect Possible?

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MacVault

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Does anyone know how to get the 3D cube effect in VMware Fusion when switching between environments, as is possible with Parallels???
 
Er, you cant it's just in parallels.

All it is is copying the two dekstops onto a cube and using opengl to roatate it. It would be nice without the flicking back to the mac dekstop at the end of it. It's just a flashy waste of time. Thankfully the vmware programmers spend their time on adding usefull feature rather than flashy waste of times. ;-)
 
User interface can play a major part in selling a product. Though I wish the Parallels programmers did add a few more less frivolous features. ;)
 
Is there any way to hack the 3D cube effect into Fusion? I am glad VMware is focusing on the more important things but that cube effect is a more elegant way of switching between Windows and Mac OS X.
 
MacVault said:
Is there any way to hack the 3D cube effect into Fusion? I am glad VMware is focusing on the more important things but that cube effect is a more elegant way of switching between Windows and Mac OS X.
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I like the fade out/fade in thing that Fusion does, seems more subtle. I don't need a big spinning cube to switch to full screen view. But to answer your specific question... no i have no idea. Maybe try google, but I would imagine that doing that would require some amount of work, and possible IP infringement.
 
You can get something pretty close to the cube effect on Parallels using Virtue Desktops by binding VMWare Fusion to a custom desktop. The cool thing about is that you can switch screens by tapping on the side of the computer using the motion sensor.

One issue with this is that if you're in full screen mode on your virtual machine and you switch desktops it will transition properly to the other desktop using the cube or whatever effect you want. However when you switch back the virtual desktop will have reverted to windowed mode.
 
G4R2 said:
You can get something pretty close to the cube effect on Parallels using Virtue Desktops by binding VMWare Fusion to a custom desktop. The cool thing about is that you can switch screens by tapping on the side of the computer using the motion sensor.
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I used VirtueDesktops like this and it worked perfectly :)
 
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