Vista screensaver inspired WMP visualizations, “Psychedelia Visualization Packâ€
Correct me if I’m wrong but I think it’s been at least two Windows releases since any new or updated Windows Media Player visualizations. Sure, what comes in the box are still visualizations by definition, but I couldn’t consider any of them eye-candy. Recently, a new visualization pack made by two Microsoft employees in their spare time is worth checking out.

Stephen Coy, the designer of the Windows Vista screensavers and Tim Cowley, a software engineer on the Office team have come together to release a visualizations pack for Windows Media Player called “Psychedelia” two years in the making. But don’t worry, no LSD drugs involved.
As a requirement to run these visualizations, you will need a graphics card that supports at least shader model 2.0 (most DirectX 9 graphics cards will), which might seem like a high requirement for visualizers, but how else are you suppose to create visual magic right?
Included in the single package are 7 visualizations with over 40 variations in total, including
- Album Art 3D - 3D cubes with the album art of the song you’re currently playing
- Bubbles - inspired by the Bubbles Vista screensavers also featuring the album art
- Distortion - distorts the album art in a 3D waveform
- Hypnobloom - hypnotic checkered purple rings
- Ribbons - inspired by the Mystify and Ribbons Vista screensavers (as seen above)
- Gigertron 3D - 3D layered visualizer bars
- up cuber - a pigment arrangement of 3D hexagon cubes
I’ve never been a big fan of visualizers before but I’m hooked onto “Ribbons”. If you’re looking for some awesome WMP visualizers or something to match your Vista screensavers, then give Psychedelia a try. It’s a reasonably light download at 5MB but best of all it’s free!







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#1. August 7th, 2009, at 7:42 AM.
bonjour jaimerais savoir ou je pourrais telecharger ces visualisations. Il ny en a que tres peu sur le site de windows (je suis un grand fan de la visualisation bubble notamment). Merci de votre reponse d’avance