3D YouTube Search - Now Available for Your Website

I’m avidly following CoolIris’s progression of its PicLens technology, I first wrote about in this posting quite recently.

To recap, PicLens, installed in your browser, enables you to enjoy online media in full-screen, 3D. Without the plugin, you still get a filmstrip-style presentation, that mimics the full-screen mode. See for yourself:





Let Your Site Visitors Enjoy Rich Media

Courtesy of the free Web Publisher available for both the Mac and Windows, your website visitors can now all enjoy full-screen PicLens slideshows. You can create a full-screen, immersive slideshow gallery for your website in only two steps:

Step 1. Select the images you'd like to include in the PicLens slideshow.

Step 2. You're done! PicLens Publisher will take care of the rest. It will create a sample HTML gallery of your images and their thumbnails that's ready to publish to your website.

Get the "Wow" factor by:

1. Easily creating immersive slideshows for all visitors
2. Generating the Media RSS, HTML, and JavaScript you need
3. Editing the generated code to add audio, video, and even your logo.
4. By supporting Media RSS and Media Binding Format (MBF)

NOTE: Adobe Flash 9.0.28 or higher or the free PicLens plugin is required to enjoy the full immersive slideshow experience of PicLens Lite.

Want to Get Even More "Wow"?

Visit the Webmaster's Guide to learn how to add audio and video, and fully customize the power of PicLens and PicLens Lite for your website. Count on at least one more posting, where I plan to demo a new site using PicLens!

Cybercast credit: YouTube

Search YouTube the 3D PicLens Way

Cooliris, a startup that’s been developing dynamic and immersive new ways to browse the web, continues to roll out new features for its PicLens browser plug-in. Most promising of the new features is the search capability for video site YouTube.

When PicLens launched last June, I was impressed by its ability to browse photo sites like Flickr. Since then, it looks like the service has gotten a lot more sophisticated, creating an image browsing interface that The New York Times describes as “a three-dimensional space that feels like an unending hallway of images.” In essence, your browser disappears and you fly around in front of a wall of content. Sort of like the Apple’s Quick Look and Cover Flow.

This interface moves PicLens beyond other online slideshow companies like Slide and Rockyou, into a much more useful service. And its YouTube compatibility — which seems to be the first of a number of new multimedia search features in the works — PicLens is starting to live up to its promise.

PicLens’ 3D YouTube search can be accessed direct from the video site, as well as via the PicLens button in your browser toolbar. Here’s a video demo:



The plug-in’s latest release includes other new features like Firefox 3.0 support, an improved user interface that lets you zoom in much further than before and optimized media RSS support. Great job, Cooliris!

Cybercast credit: YouTube