I've been tasked with generating a fancy real-time 3D interface for a game, and I'm looking for inspiration. If you've seen any cool 3D interfaces lately, whether for games or not, I'd love to see them. I haven't really started looking online yet. I picked up a great book about CG interface design in general, called…
Go to this site and install the anark plugin. Then you can check out the demo's which are 3d interfaces. I recommend looking at the Motorcycle and geforce4 menus/demos. http://www.anark.com/gallery/gallery_visualization.asp
What about Metroid Prime? It's mostly a 2D interface wrapped around a curved helmet but it has nice 3D visualisation effects... Hmmm there is also this funky screen in minority report... Hope this helps!