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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.

What? (is Fixdit anyway)

When we say we specialise in '3D graphics', we don't mean get ready to break out the red and green glasses, but instead imagine you're a retailer and a few flat photographs is all you have to display and sell your wares online. You'd much rather have your customers see all angles, interact and experience the product as closely as possible before purchasing, right?. Well Fixdit has the answer.  We design and build online technology that makes it accessible and viable for today's web sites to integrate 3D graphics right inside their pages. From large scale campaigns to small one off projects. We are adding a 3rd dimension to the web.

Why? (is Fixdit here)

Why have just a few flat images of an object when you can now have a full 360 degree, top to bottom experience? The potential and scope for accessible, online 3D graphics is massive. We see a 3D web as one of the next logical steps for the internet.

How? (does Fixdit do what it does)

One of Fixdit's flagship technologies that employs online 3D graphics is the 3D Object Viewer. If YouTube has it's Video Players and within each is contained a video to be played, then the 3D Object Viewer is it's three dimensional equivilent. Every 3D Object Viewer has contained within it an object that can then be manipulated. The technology is also built apon the same Flash platform as YouTube's video players. Meaning no big downloads, just a fantastically rich experience within a standard web-browser.