3D Photo Frame

"Hmm, I don't remember that one. It mustn't be that important." This article is about a subject from outside Hideo Kojima's core "Metal Gear Saga." Its canonicity within the continuity is disputed, therefore reader discretion is advised.[?]

A 3D Photo Frame, in 2018.

A 3D Photo Frame was a display that used stealth camouflage technology to refract light into a 3D image.

Usage

World Marshal Incident

See also: Raid at World Marshal, Ambush in Africa, Abkhazian Coup, Investigation in Guadalajara, Raid in Denver, and Operation Tecumseh

In 2018, Raiden, during his missions for Maverick against Desperado and later World Marshal, utilized 3D Photo Frames containing scantily-clad women as a distraction method, due to the primarily cyborg personnel of both PMCs being immune to regular print magazines due to their emotion-suppressed nature.

Behind the scenes

The 3D Photo Frame appears in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, serving a similar purpose to the magazine in previous games. It was revealed during the Boot Camp session at Santa Monica (although not covered in the Bootcamp videos), and eventually shown during gameplay in a January 31 gameplay trailer depicting stealth gameplay elements and AR mode. According to Kojima Productions producer Yuji Koreikado in his Twitter account, the woman in the 3D Photo Frame was the Type A Female Soldier from Metal Gear Online. An actual magazine does, however, make a brief appearance in the beginning of Chapter R-07.

Type A Female Soldier as model for 3D Photo Frame.

"A display that uses stealth camouflage technology to refract light into a 3D image. It'll take more than a girly magazine to get the attention of emotion-suppressed cyborgs; this should do the trick."

―3D Photo Frame description in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance