Prisma's stunning art effects are coming to VR and video

What's better than an app that turns selfies into instant art? An app that does the same thing for video and virtual reality. 

That's what Prisma, the app that has already captured the imagination of the photo-sharing community, is working to bring to the public next. 

Using a combination of neural networks and artificial intelligence, the app takes normal, real world images and transforms them into approximations of how painters might render them into famous art styles (abstract, impressionist, etc.).

After contacting the Russia-based developers behind the app, we confirmed, as noted on Sunday, that the app will soon move into video. The developers Prisma Labs sent Mashable a demonstration of what the video version of Prisma will look like and the result is fascinating. Read more...