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<p>I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Hideya Kawahara, lead developer for 3D <a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/project-looking-glass/">Project Looking Glass</a>, Sun's 3D desktop technology <a href="http://lg3d.dev.java.net">open source project on java.net</a>.</p> <p>Before meeting with Hideya, I must confess that I had been operating under the mistaken assumption that Project Looking Glass was intended as a replacement <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W