3D screenshot for folks who hate QuickTime

Yesterday, Rip-Saw posted a note about an option to view the 3D screenshot Bungie posted Friday for those without QuickTime – he created a 2.1 mb, 320×240 animated gif. Viewing it took a little work; there’s no .gif extension on it, so many browsers don’t know what to do with it. BOLL came to the rescue, with a more elegant (though quite a bit larger) solution: a 7.4 mb Flash version (640×480) that reproduced the rotational options of the 3D QuickTime VR version. There is a problem with that version, though – it’s a really, really, REALLY slow download outside of Scandinavia. He’s uploaded an updated version to our servers; this one remembers your starting point (multiple rotations aren’t quite so jarring any more), and he’s added an auto-rotate feature (left and right arrows, down arrow to stop). View it in our Miscellaneous section. (Again, if you’ve got the hi-res QuickTime version, and it works for you, you don’t really need this – it’s for the QuickTime-impaired.)