3D GIF Developed to Walk Through Pictures

The animated picture format GIF, which was integrated into our lives by the company named CompuServe in 1987, still has a great impact on the internet world today. Today, a company called Looking Glass has introduced a new visual format that could have as much of an impact as GIF. With new image format 3D holographic visuals Creating and sharing will become extremely easy.

According to the details shared by Looking Glass, the new visual format will allow you to experience many visual materials such as special effects, screenshots from games, 3D models, portrait photos and of course NFTs in 3D on a 2D screen. Moreover, all these images will be created directly with internet standards. That is, images can be displayed in any browser in your browser. without the need for extra plug-ins or special software can be viewed.

Examples of 3D holographic images:

With the new image type called ‘Blocks’, those who have all the pictures in this article on PC can move the mouse cursor over the image on mobile. You can experience it in 3D. Apart from this, all images can be transferred directly to a virtual room by opening the images by entering the browser through the virtual reality glasses.

All this perception of three-dimensionality, of course, does not occur thanks to the rendering of the image on the browser. If you move your mouse very slowly over the images, you can see that the images are made up of different frames, just like in GIFs. Each Block, rendering of up to 100 scenes is formed. When these are combined, the above images are formed.

There are no downsides either:

Of course, there is no downside to this new visual format. Rendering more than 100 3D scenes actually means that there are more than 100 images in one picture. Here is every picture Depending on its quality, it has a size between 2 and 50 MB. why is this happening. Therefore, the new image format, at least in its current form, has dimensions well above internet standards. For this reason, it is hardly possible to standardize on platforms such as Instagram and Twitter in the short term. In addition, since the technology is new, serious optimization problems can be seen. While some users express their ‘meaning’ while moving the images, others can experience it very fluently. The devices used here and the web browser seem to be the biggest factor determining the experience.

The most important factor that distinguishes Blocks from all the holographic images we have seen so far is that the images are a part of it. Living in HTML container and can be shared directly with a single link. For example, you can send the chocolate image above, the link “https://host.glass/view?shortcode=634”, so that everyone can see this image or you can add it to the internet pages.

The company started a pilot program for its new technology, and within the scope of this program, it offered the opportunity to transform the images of any artist who designed on Blender, Unity and Unreal Engine and signed up for the program into a Block. The company stated that it will increase the number of supported programs in the future.