Posts filed under 3D Object Viewer

Fixdit's 3D Object Viewer presents a window that contains realtime 3D graphics to a web user. Users can interact with and manipulate the geometry within, as well as share them throughout the web. The windows can be embedded into HTML ready web pages and viewed using potentially any standard web-browser. Unlike video players, a fast internet connection isn't required. 3D Object Viewers aren't limited to the types of models they can contain either and have been used to display content from architectural model walkthroughs to animated character designs. Furthermore this online 3D technology comes with an API already in-built that lets you easily alter and customise elements (e.g. backround colours). Documentation on this API will be realeased to developers in the near future.

Below is an embedded example of the Fixdit 3D Object Viewer 1.0. As a quick example I've included a model of the iPhone 3G. Feel free to interact using your mouse and the pop-up control panel located at the bottom of the viewer. Try adding a note.

The wonderful thing about the web is that you can share content. 3D content until now hasn't been easy to do this with however. Fixdit looks to help change this and for realtime 3D do what YouTube did for video, plus we've already begun implementing the technology. As we've outlined before, YouTube has it's Video Players and within each of them is contained a video to be played. Fixdit's 3D Object Viewer is the three dimensional equivilent. Every 3D Object Viewer has contained within it an object that can then be manipulated. 

Pimp It 3D is a Fixdit home grown project that lets you customise an object in realtime 3D, then show off your creation throughout the internet. One way of sharing your custom design is to embed the actual 3D Object Viewer within your own web pages or blog. YouTube has an embed facility which makes the code available in the top right hand corner of any video's page (fig. 1).

After making your selections to customise the look of the video player, you then copy the text in the 'Embed' box and paste it into your own HTML ready pages. 3D object viewer's have a similar tool (fig. 2).

Below is an example of an embeded 3D player in action. I made my selections over at Pimp It 3D, hit the copy button and pasted it straight inside this post.