Cooliris (for Desktop), formerly known as ''PicLens'', was a

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developed by

Cooliris Cooliris, Inc. was a US corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California, that developed photo viewing products on mobile, web, and desktop platforms. It was a venture backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, T-Venture, DAG Ventures, The ...

, Inc, and later acquired by Yahoo. The plugin provides an interactive 3D-like experience for viewing

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s and videos from the web and from desktop applications. The software places a small icon atop image

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s that appear on a webpage. Clicking on the icon loads the Cooliris 3D Wall, a browsing environment that gives the user the effect of flying through a three-dimensional space. Released to the public in January 2008, ''

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'' described Cooliris as the "new immersive approach to Web navigation". Cooliris went out to win the 2008

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Award for Best Design. The plugin has received over 50 million downloads. As of May 2014 browser plugins are unavailable from the official website. There are only links to tablet apps - for iOS and Android.

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