Instagram just launched a new app that loops 1-second videos

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by Sindy Cator on October 22, 2015 at 2:08 pm

Instagram is announcing an all-new app today that lets you create 1-second video loops. It’s called Boomerang. The simple app allows you to simply press a button and record one second of video. Rather than just playing once and repeating, the clip plays, rewinds, and then repeats – hence the boomerang moniker. The shared video is actually four seconds long. The rewinding aspect also ensures a perfect loop, and gives the video a GIF-like appearance. That’s also aided by the fact that the clips are recorded via a burst of stills rather than video, which lessens the chances for nasty compression artifacts.…