3D Photo Wall Screen Saver

The original purpose of a screensaver was to keep your old CRT monitor alive by keeping it busy while you’re away so it doesn’t deteriorate physically. This purpose became obsolete because of the evolution of technology. However, screensavers can still serve customization purposes, and 3D Photo Wall Screen Saver is a suitable example in this regard.

On the one hand, you can carry the little screensaver on a thumb drive wherever you go, but it does need to be installed on the target computer. Once setup is over, the Windows Screen Saver Settings panel shows up, and this screensaver is already selected as your default one. Needless to say that this can easily be changed.

It benefits from all the default features of a screensaver put at your disposal by Windows. This means that you can specify the time in minutes to wait before it kicks in, as well as to show the logon screen on resume, which is a neat way for keeping others from snooping through your stuff while you’re away.

On the other hand, it also comes with a set of options of its own, which are more than welcome. What the screensaver does is actually place you inside a 3D interactive photo viewer, without closing it when you move the mouse, like the case with most screensavers.

Accessing the screensaver settings allows you to manage general behavior, as well as photo source. Images can come from a custom location, or you can manually create a playlist on the spot, with support for items like JPG, GIF, and PNG. Scene options let you set general display options, reflection, as well as camera distance.

You can choose to autoplay the slideshow, or manually interact with the mouse or arrow keys. Exit condition can be set to mouse movement, any mouse button, keystroke, or a custom hotkey command. The menu can be displayed as well, and you can choose to view the cursor inside the slideshow.

To sum it up, 3D Photo Wall Screen Saver feels like a bit more than your average screensaver, and it is. You get to enter a virtual 3D slideshow, which really comes in handy for use on large displays or kiosks.