5 ways online 3D technology will improve your site

Why have flat photos of a product when you can now have your visitors fully interact in three dimensions. Household products, cars, machinery, you name it.

Catch the eye of any visitor by allowing them to navigate through your site in 3D. Navigating a website doesn't need to be all plain lists and menus, you can create abstract 3D worlds which you intuitively move around. Checkout this Verbatim site where you can navigate using the dynamic 3D characters. Other good examples are the Big and Small Ceebies website and this from Plantate.

Buying a house, why not take a virtual tour as if you were walking around the property yourself. Architects can also now upload their models to display in realtime 3D to their clients.

Sci-fi movies have used Augmented Reality in their futuristic computer monitors and interfaces for years now (think Minority Report), however it's already a reality in your standard web-browser. Augmented Reality or AR is where the physical real-world environment and it's elements are modified by virtual computer-generated imagery. Take a look at these concept examples here and here to get a taste of what I'm talking about. If you've got a web camera then take a look at a realworld example here. Alternatively watch this. If you wnt to see further examples of online Augmented Reality click here.

An example is the Baseball pitcher-batter views application which displays the data from a game in interactive 3D. Read about it here.