# Unfurl... in 3D

> Unfurl has been a fun tool, but I've heard you: it's boring. This update to Unfurl will change all that!

- Author: Ryan Benson
- Published: 2020-04-01
- Tags: Visualizations, Open Source Tools, Digital Forensics, Web Browsers, Unfurl
- Canonical URL: https://hindsig.ht/blog/unfurl-in-3d/

I [released Unfurl](https://hindsig.ht/blog/introducing-unfurl/) last year and it's been a fun little tool. In case you haven't used it before, Unfurl takes a URL and expands ("unfurls") it into a graph, with each node representing some part of the URL.

Here is a very simple example:

![](https://hindsig.ht/content/images/2019/12/unfurl-simple-example.png)  

I've heard from some people that they find the tool helpful, but a little boring. It's just text, squares, and lines, with a few emojis thrown in. **It's not very exciting.**

I totally get it. It's 2020; we all expected "Minority Report"-style interfaces for our forensic tools. And here I am, part of the problem, giving you a tool whose output you could draw on a whiteboard.

### Unfurl is just too boring, too... 2D.

I'm happy to announce that Unfurl is no longer stuck in two dimensions! Here is the newest version everyone has been waiting for: **[Unfurl 3D](https://hindsig.ht/blog/unfurl-in-3d/)!**

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obsidianforensics/unfurl/main/unfurl/static/unfurl-3d.gif)

And yes, if you have a VR headset, you can click that "VR" button in the bottom corner to enter full VR and Unfurl away!

You can give it a try at [**https://hindsig.ht/blog/unfurl-in-3d/**](https://hindsig.ht/blog/unfurl-in-3d/). I'm going to keep the old, obsolete 2D version available at [https://hindsig.ht/unfurl/](https://hindsig.ht/unfurl/) for a while, just in case.