{"id":10769,"date":"2023-07-17T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/viewfinder-review-the-magic-of-stepping-into-a-picture\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T11:38:28","slug":"viewfinder-review-the-magic-of-stepping-into-a-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/viewfinder-review-the-magic-of-stepping-into-a-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewfinder review \u2013 the magic of stepping into a picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sad Owl Studios\/Thunderful; PS5, PC (version played)<\/strong><br \/>What if the photos you took became real? Viewfinder hands you a camera and lets you reshape the world<\/p>\n<p>Hold up a photo of a room. Let go. The room has popped into existence in front of you, a fully 3D space to walk into and explore. Playing Viewfinder for the first time feels like magic, and it\u2019s a trick that never gets old.<\/p>\n<p>Soon you discover it\u2019s not just photos that can be conjured into solid existence: pictures can, too. Hold up a child\u2019s drawing of a house, then open the crudely drawn front door to see what\u2019s inside. Hold up a watercolour painting and step into the paint-washed landscape. Then the game reveals its superpower. Here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/polaroid\">Polaroid<\/a> camera. Take a photo of anything. Reshape the world as you see fit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/jul\/17\/viewfinder-review-sad-owl-thunderful\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9ff84da60afad5ad6b4b6d49ac935857ba72bd62\/4_85_1658_995\/master\/1658.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7f34987b0a9304b8e416597bec34fcbf\" title=\"Viewfinder review \u2013 the magic of stepping into a picture\" \/>Sad Owl Studios\/Thunderful; PS5, PC (version played)What if the photos you took became real? Viewfinder hands you a camera and lets you reshape the world<br \/>\nHold up a photo of a room. Let go. The room has popped into existence in front of you, a fully 3D space to walk into and explore. Playing Viewfinder for the first time feels like magic, and it\u2019s a trick that never gets old.<br \/>\nSoon you discover it\u2019s not just photos that can be conjured into solid existence: pictures can, too. Hold up a child\u2019s drawing of a house, then open the crudely drawn front door to see what\u2019s inside. Hold up a watercolour painting and step into the paint-washed landscape. Then the game reveals its superpower. Here\u2019s a Polaroid camera. Take a photo of anything. Reshape the world as you see fit. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad Owl Studios\/Thunderful; PS5, PC (version played)What if the photos you took became real? Viewfinder hands you a camera and lets you reshape the world Hold up a photo of a room. Let go. The room has popped into existence in front of you, a fully 3D space to walk into and explore. Playing Viewfinder &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/viewfinder-review-the-magic-of-stepping-into-a-picture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Viewfinder review \u2013 the magic of stepping into a picture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}