MENLO PARK, CA, April 15, 2008 – You thought the 3D wall was cool when it was filled with high-quality but (through no fault of their own) static images? What if you could browse videos seamlessly with that same interface? Oh, you can.

Our new PicLens v.1.6.3 release features YouTube video search. Check out our demo video below and see for yourself!

Once you’ve got PicLens open, simply browse YouTube using the search bar at the upper-right. Or if you’re using Firefox and happen to be visiting YouTube, click the PicLens button in your browser toolbar to be transported to an unending wall of your favorite videos.

The new release brings some other great improvements along for the ride. You can now see metadata “ image title labels of Flickr photo captions, for instance “ while flying through images and videos in PicLens. We know context is important, and we want to provide you with as much as we can without cluttering your interface.

We’ve also integrated a new UI, which further streamlines navigation with a more obvious Jump to Page button and an improved full-screen mode. Prior to this release, you couldn’t zoom an image to more than twice its size. We now offer true full-screen zoom for both images and video alike.

So what are you waiting for? Head on over and download the new Piclens v1.6.3 update.

Grab your popcorn kids. The previews are over, and it’s time for the main feature.

PicLens 1.6.3 is available for Firefox 2.0, Firefox 3b5, and Internet Explorer on Windows Vista, XP, and Mac OSX, and can be downloaded for free right here on our website at www.piclens.com.

Fans are so smitten with PicLens that the YouTube videos keep streaming in. From demos to reviews, and even just music video galleries compiled by users who want an awesome new way to share their albums, the number of PicLens videos has shot well past 100.

Giovanni Antico discovered the power of PicLens when navigating his Flickr albums. Giovanni writes, “I was so excited to see my photos as if they were in a boundless gallery that I recorded a video of such experience. PicLens gave me a whole new way to browse images, combining spectacular navigation with ease of use.” The album video he created is a staff favorite. Check it out!

Cool, huh? Did seeing that just spark your creative side? There are a lot of neat themes for a Piclens video. Maybe you’d like a new way to commemorate your family vacation. Maybe you’ve been wanting to make a music video on YouTube for a while but just haven’t found the right medium. Or maybe you’ve got an artist’s eye and can use our 3D wall to form a moving pointillist piece out of hundreds of disparate tiny images! (Or maybe, just maybe, I watched Ferris Bueller recently and have Seurat on the noggin.) Whatever you want to share with us, put it up on YouTube and drop us a line about it, and you may just end up on our blog!