Flickr Adds New Category: Virtual Photos

Flickr is creating a new category on their site. Virtual photography is emerging, which is a sign of great enthusiasm from the community.

The world is changing fast, very fast. This is especially true for anything related to technology. Video games, for example, keep up with the times, with technological progress. Today, the graphics capabilities of machines are such that the environment can seem more real than life. In fact, virtual photography is spreading. What gave the idea to the Flickr platform.

Flickr creates a new category on their site

Flickr has indeed decided to add a new category for virtual photography to help users find and classify the images they take in their favorite video games. So far, the platform has only offered three categories: photos, illustrations, and art, as well as screenshots. The company says the last one on this list didn’t really meet the needs of its communities, so it created a new category.

A virtual photo appears

“By placing your work in one of these categories, you can use filters to narrow your search results by interest,” explains Flickr in a blog post discovered by PetaPixel. “For example, virtual photographers will be able to filter ‘virtual photos’ by searching the entire site if they only want to see such content, and thus avoid real photos or any other form of art and illustration.”

Sign of great enthusiasm from the community

The addition of this category is proof of the growing popularity of virtual photography. We are now at a stage where most major games have a photo mode at launch or some time after launch. Many developers have also begun to frequently share the best shots of their communities. For example, every week Hideo Kojima retweets images from Death Stranding’s Photo Mode, as do CD Projekt Red and Guerrilla Games.