Piclens Update

Posted by on Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 2:46 pm. 7 Comments.

I’ve written about PicLens, (here and here) the immersive image technology (a browser extension) that allows you to bring up full screen images to your browser from popular web sites such as Flickr, Google Images, and Yahoo, in addition to providing a plugin that brings the same technology to your blogs. I use it sometimes as a presentation platform. I have exported to Flickr a couple of standard presentations about my school that I am sometimes asked to give, and have arranged them as sets. I have them ready for just in time type presentations and utilize the PicLens interface to “present.”

Today the New York Times has an a article about Piclens. The recent update to the browser extension now provides a more immersive interface…

The software does away with the browser frame and gives the user the effect of flying through a three-dimensional space that feels like an unending hallway of images. In the future, the Cooliris designers plan to make it possible to browse text and video as well.

I am really impressed with the 3D effects. It is quite a different experience walking through a Flickr photostream using this tool. Below is a short screencast demonstration using the PicLens plugin for Firefox. (Note to Safari 3.0 users… there seems to be an issue and from their web site they are working on it…)

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7 Comments on “Piclens Update”

  1. Ryan says:

    Piclens is a great tool. I think the site that benefits most is Google Image Search. Generally speaking, I find the UI of GIS to be pretty poor – with piclens, you can QUICKLY scan through the photos from the seemingly never-ending query results. The only issue is finding the picture in the results once you are out of Piclens.?

    Posted on March 9, 2008 at 6:22 pm.

  2. Ryan says:

    Piclens is a great tool. I think the site that benefits most is Google Image Search. Generally speaking, I find the UI of GIS to be pretty poor – with piclens, you can QUICKLY scan through the photos from the seemingly never-ending query results. The only issue is finding the picture in the results once you are out of Piclens.

    Posted on March 9, 2008 at 6:22 pm.

  3. Meg & The Cooliris Team says:

    Hey Tim and Readers! Thanks so much for posting about PicLens! We really appreciate it.

    We thought you might be interested in checking out two more video demos, one by our team and the other by a PicLens fan!

    http://www.piclens.com/demo
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=uRG40tqC8dM

    PicLens 1.6 with the 3D Wall is now available for Firefox AND Internet Explorer (Win and Mac) — PicLens is also compatible with Safari, with the 1.6 version coming soon. You can automatically download the right version based on their browser by simply visiting http://www.piclens.com.

    Thanks, again.
    Meg & The Cooliris Team

    Posted on March 10, 2008 at 12:26 am.

  4. DK says:

    Thanks for the ping on piclens – I originally installed it on Safari and was confused it didn’t perform as advertised… on Firefox it kicks ass – thanks again!

    Posted on March 10, 2008 at 1:57 am.

  5. U Tech Tips » Blog Archive » Utecht’s Daily Links 03/12/2008 says:

    [...] Piclens Update – timlauer.org  Annotated [...]

    Posted on March 11, 2008 at 4:32 pm.

  6. hendron’s digest » Blog Archive » Flickr in 3D says:

    [...] Tim Lauer notes a new plugin for Flickr that can show your photos (or someone else’s) in 3D and in full-screen mode. Looks pretty cool. [...]

    Posted on March 11, 2008 at 5:11 pm.