Cooliris Lets You Enable Your Web Site For 3D In Minutes
We've been fans of Cooliris, the browser plugin formerly known as PicLens, for quite some time. This plugin transforms a normal 2D web page into an immersive 3D experience for viewing photos and videos. It allows you to fly through all the media on a page, zoom in and out, watch the videos full screen or view the pictures in a slideshow format, and so much more. However, the one problem with Cooliris was the limited number of sites that supported it. As of now, that's about change.
According to a recent article in VentureBeat, the company has just introduced a tool that will allow anyone to add the Cooliris technology to their web site without needing to know any sort of programming at all.
Now, in addition to the "full featured" option on Cooliris's Developer page, there's a new "Quick and Simple" option that promises to work on most sites. All you have to do is enter in your URL, and, after some tests are performed, you're provided with an XML file and some embed code to add to your site. The entire process is said to take about ten minutes, but in our testing, it was even quicker than that.
Another new feature in Cooliris is a new sharing option which lets you drag and drop media from the Wall to share with friends. Right now, this feature supports email only, but in the future, sharing via Facebook may become available.
If you're looking for content to view with Cooliris, you can visit Getty Images, the world's largest source of stock photos, which recently became Cooliris-enabled. You can also just launch the plugin and use its "Discovery" option, which loads a list of channels for you to choose from, including one that currently offers photos and videos from the Olympic Games in Beijing.
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perde
thank you
Posted by: perde | August 15, 2008 7:03 AM
Hi Sarah,
Thank you for posting about Cooliris! We truly appreciate it. We are delighted to hear that you're enjoying and we hope your readers will too.
Cooliris 1.8 has some really great new features so we hope everyone gets a chance to check it out. We also have more awesome things to come so please stay tuned!
Thanks again,
Luna and The Cooliris Team
Posted by: Luna | August 15, 2008 10:26 AM
Looks great! Very timely, as I was just talking yesterday to a new client about a site for her photography business.
Folks should think about clicking the link there to GettyImages, very interesting site.
Thanks Sarah...
Posted by: Jon | August 15, 2008 11:04 AM
Just to clarify: Making your site support CoolIris slideshows can be done simply by adding Media RSS. This is a good idea anyway for any media-centric site. It will let people point wifi photo frames at your site, for example. You only need to embed JavaScript if you want to steer users toward CoolIris who don't have it installed yet.
(I'm not affiliated with CoolIris, but I support it on OurDoings).
Posted by: Bruce Lewis | August 16, 2008 7:12 PM
Cooliris is badass! Viewing high resolution photos like the ones on Getty Images through Cooliris is an amazing and almost breath-taking experience that everyone should try at least once. Can't wait to see what The Cooliris Team do with media sharing on Facebook!
Posted by: David | August 19, 2008 2:34 AM
all is nice but there's something missing...
check these out:
http://developer.cooliris.com/dev_forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=30&page=1
http://www.harphield.com/2008/08/13/piclens-once-again-greasemonkey-php-script-any-gallery#comment-3
Posted by: Oz | August 25, 2008 10:31 AM