{"id":32220,"date":"2022-06-01T15:59:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/looking-glass-might-have-just-invented-the-gifs-3d-successor\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T15:59:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:59:26","slug":"looking-glass-might-have-just-invented-the-gifs-3d-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/looking-glass-might-have-just-invented-the-gifs-3d-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Glass might have just invented the GIF’s 3D successor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On June 15th, 1987, CompuServe introduced the GIF, a way to share images – or animated sequences of images – anywhere. The incredible portability of the late Steve Wilhite’s \u201cgraphics interchange format\u201d made it the perfect canvas for viral memes. <\/p>\n

Now, a company called Looking Glass is trying to make holograms effortlessly portable, too. <\/p>\n

\u201cImagine we’re in a parallel universe and every movie ever shot was shot in color, but every human being was watching in black and white,\u201d says Looking Glass co-founder and CEO Shawn Frayne. “That’s the situation we’re in with 3D.” <\/p>\n

He says that if you add up all the CG movies, video game screenshots, 3D models, and portrait mode photos – and, yes, NFTs – there are hundreds of trillions of pieces of 3D content that we only ever experience in 2D. <\/p>\n

That’s why his holographic display company is introducing the Looking Glass Block: a new image format that lets you peek inside a 3D scene, even if you’re viewing it on a normal flat screen. It’s built on web standards so you can view them in any modern web browser, much like a GIF or JPEG.<\/p>\n