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 the new image format, it will be extremely easy to create and share 3D holographic images.
According to the details shared by Looking Glass, its 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. In other words, the images will be displayed in your browser without the need for any extra plug-ins or special software.
3D holographic visual examples:
With the new image type called ‘Blocks’, you can experience all the pictures in this article in 3D by moving the mouse cursor over the image on PC and mobile on the image. 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 sense 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 consists of renderings of up to 100 scenes. When these are combined, the images above occur.
It’s not without its minuses:
Of course, this new visual format does not have a minus. Rendering more than 100 3D scenes actually means that there are more than 100 images in one picture. This causes each picture to have a size between 2 and 50 MB, depending on its quality. 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 and the web browser seem to be the biggest factor determining the experience here.
The most important factor that distinguishes Blocks from all holographic images we have seen so far is that the images live in an 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 has launched a pilot program for its new technology, offering the opportunity to convert any artist’s image into a Block, as part of this program, which makes any design on Blender, Unity, and Unreal Engine and enrolls in the program. The company stated that it will increase the number of supported programs in the future.
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