I've been posting for a while now making vague allusions to the frontend that I am working on. Well I've made a few videos showing my progress for anyone who is interested. Keep in mind that it's very rough and very early, but it will give some idea of some of the effects that I am going for.
The videos I made were mostly to communicate with the person who made the 3d arcade models that I am using within the frontend but if you can sit through the boring chatter about that you can get a feel for what I'm doing.
The most recent video is in two parts because my computer crashed partway through the first (@!^%#&*&@ graphics driver ...):