Android live wallpapers bring animation and action to the normally static home screen. While most live wallpaper userswouldn’t say having a standard image is boring, they would argue that seeing movement on the home screen – however small or whatever effect that can have on battery life – offers more eye candy.

Cuki HD Live Wallpaper illustrates that point fairly well. Developed by SK Planet, Cuki HD is actually a showcase app for live wallpapers with 3D effects. There are currently four appealing titles from Cuki centered on different themes – the circus, fairy tale, optic ball, and soccer – and the promise of more live wallpapers on the way.

All of the Cuki HD live wallpapers have layers of objects based around that theme. In the soccer edition, three players are positioned from one edge of the screen to the next, and they appear to be passing a ball on a plane of red triangles. The live wallpapers feature multiple layers of objects that change when the phone is moved or the user switches between screens. In the case of the fantasy circus, acrobats float in the background, and tilting a screen in different directions repositions a performing elephant.

Cuki HD at the moment exhibits four beautiful and completely free Android live wallpapers. The app might feature a few premium titles in the future, but if they’re of similar quality the ones currently in the app for free, they can count on at least one sale from this writer. Android 2.1 and higher devices can download the Cuki HD app to get links to the suite of live wallpapers.

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Fans of live wallpapers may want to check out VR Tunnel that just graduated from the xda and made its debut in the Market. Live wallpapers are usually all about the eye candy and the wow factor, and this one is no exception.

VR Tunnel is developed by xda forum member chopsui, and the “motion sensitive holographic 3D effect” it brings to your homescreen is quite geek chic. The live wallpaper has a retro vibe to it, and is somewhat reminiscent of early virtual reality (hence the name). It has been beta tested by other forum members for about a week, and now the developer finally feels his digital creation is ready for prime time.

It may not be the prettiest live wallpaper I have seen, nor the coolest or most impressive, but VR Tunnel still has an unusual quality to it that’s hard to define. People will likely either love it or hate it. VR Tunnel basically shows cubes moving through a tunnel, and you can manipulate the animation by tilting your device and tapping the cubes. It’s customizable, and you can change the direction of the cubes, their speed and color, the color of the tunnel and more.

The developer claims that you need a high-end device to run VR Tunnel, and he’s not kidding: the animation is even a bit jerky on my HTC Desire that is powered by a 1GHz CPU.

VR Tunnel is apparently free for a limited time only, so if it sounds like your cup of tea I suggest you head to the Market and give it a try. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video should be worth around 30 000 words a second: check out the video below to get an idea of what the live wallpaper looks like.

Install VR Tunnel