Instagram photos enhanced by Hungarian startup

Sharing photos on Instagram might get much more entertaining soon, thanks to a Hungarian startup. Vimage from Pécs is managed by the Telenor Accelerate program, as it is revealed in Valasz.hu’s report.

Instagram is the second most popular social network after Facebook, exceeding 700 million users. The photo sharing website is now a must for every company and celebrity who wants to stay in contact with its followers. The variety of services has increased with the appearance videos and temporary video series. Furthermore, a new function is coming soon: the cinemagraph.

It is like an in-between of photo and video. Like a panorama with shifting clouds or a window with rain outside. It is a picture with some animated details.

Zsolt Cziegler from Pécs thinks that this format should be available to everyone. He soon realized that he needed special equipment and expertise to let this happen. In order to create a looped animation a perfectly stable picture is needed. Not to mention the expensive software. But he developed the idea: what if they added effects to simple photos?

He first approached his uncle, doctor and IT engineer, András Cziegler, and his sister Enikő. After some hesitation, they were convinced about the viability of the idea. The team was complete with project manager Adrián Gaál, Android and iOS developer Gábor Horváth, programmer and doctor Ahmed Harmouche, and iOS application developer Alex Dósa.