Are you looking to gain a competitive edge and influence your clients' decision-making? Enhance your web resources with a 3D Viewer option to showcase your product or service more effectively. The 3D Viewer is an easy-to-use app that showcases your products or projects. To create a 3D Viewer, web developers work alongside 3D designers to program the 3D components of the graphics. This article will help you evaluate the pros and cons of using 3D development in your business.
3D Viewer offers the following features:
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It showcases the 3D object by easily changing the viewing angle with simple pan, zoom, and orbiting controls using your mouse, touch, pen, or keyboard.
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It inspects the 3D models in detail, including mesh, texture, material, and animation data.
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It has a display of animated models for a more engaging presentation.
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It controls the position and color of the staging lights and creates shadows for more realistic views.
Beyond everything, it’s imperative to determine which products will be more effective in the 3D Viewer. This step is quite crucial and demands meeting two main conditions:
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3D modeling projects help to convey a unique value to clients.
Architects use various methods to plan interior designs, but it can be difficult for clients without an architectural background to envision the final product. Utilizing a 3D Viewer to showcase future projects can help clients visualize the concept more accurately, realistically, and in detail. With 3D models, architects can better understand their client's needs, effectively pitch important projects to investors, and create a perfect portfolio of cases on their websites.
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The utilization of 3D technology in this industry is paying off.
In the advertising & media industry, companies balance production costs with the interest and needs of the customers.. 3D development provides more flexibility than photo and video production, allowing users to create impressive effects and make changes in every stage of a project. Users can also utilize 3D modeling for NFT assets, educational materials, and other media campaigns, which are easily showcased and navigated in a 3D Viewer. These complex media campaigns are also commonly used in the Real Estate industry.
If this is something you are looking for? If you're interested in finding a solution, Evenstar can help. Our team can guide you in the right direction and show you the potential of your project.
3D VIEWERS IN DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES
3D viewers can be a valuable tool in any industry that uses visualizations to communicate complex ideas, designs, or products. Take, for example, the significance of projects in architecture and construction. These long-term projects center around people's dreams, legacies, care, comfort, and coziness. Customers want to make sure their imagination takes the perfect shape in reality and demand to see the final result at the early stages of a project. With 3D Viewer, architects and engineers can create and visualize building plans and design more effectively, giving end-users a better understanding of the project's value.
3D viewers can amplify:
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The product design process. Users can use virtual prototypes to visualize products before manufacturers physically produce them.
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The education industry. Users can use interactive educational content that allows students to visualize and explore complex concepts more engagingly.
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The gaming industry. Users can create and showcase 3D characters, environments, and objects.
- E-commerce goods. Users can display items like jewelry, fashion, food, furniture, home goods, electronic devices, board games, toys, and books, among other things, in 3D viewing. This feature can help customers view products more interactively, increasing engagement and sales.
3D development has tools to create and display a perfect project to clients through a 3D Viewer. During this process, consumers can interact with the item and look at the product from a 360° angle while rotating, zooming in, zooming out, and analyzing each detail. With such a web app, buyers could see and feel the upcoming project and evaluate if it is worth its price.
Depending on your business needs, a 3D Viewer might have different features and be accessible in specific places on your website or shop. For example, in an interior design website, the 3D Viewer could display a scene on the website's main page. And for something like a jewelry shop, the 3D Viewer could display certain jewelry on different stands. The user interface could also be divided into parts and contain a viewing area with navigation. The viewing area can show a model and the changes that occur by rotating or zooming in or out. The navigation area also contains control buttons for making those changes. There is also an additional option that influences the environment. With this option, you can change to day or night, bright light or dark, create a shadow, etc. The 3D Viewer App has high-quality final images and instantaneous download speed
The 3D Viewer can support standard 3D files, like FBX, STL, OBJ, glTF, GLB, PLY, 3MF, and many others. In other words, 3D designers can choose how to produce 3D models for a project. Our experts recommend using gLTF/.GLB, as it has benefits in comparison to other formats:
1) Fastest download/parse speed of images
2) Small size of images
By using gLTF/.GLB formats allow displaying the model in the browser as quickly as possible since it stores half of the data - as polygons and texture.
The Evenstar can create a 3D Viewer App for your website, complete with all the scenes explicitly developed for you and compatible with all the major 3D file formats. With our app, you won't have to worry about installing additional third-party apps, meeting system requirements, or finding technical support, making it the perfect solution for showcasing your products or designs on any device.
Here’s an example of how that would look in action:
3D visualization adds a touch of realism, and customers can get a better feel of their product’s texture, structure, and other essential details like the product's size, quality, and materials. Buyers are more likely to purchase a product when they have this information that helps them determine if the product meets their expectations. For instance, look at the clock model in the 3D Viewer and the list of possibilities and effects we have incorporated into it
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It uses an environment map to simulate reflections on the glass when rotated.
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The watch displays real-time data and location information based on the time zone.
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We designed the watch hands to match the color of the watch case.
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The contact shadows are visible on the horizontal surfaces.
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The rotation is merely an animation of the position, not a special effect.
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The body has five color variants, each featuring an animated color transition.
- Incorporate branding into the 3D model; for example, we added the logo of The Evenstar onto the clock screen
What is the difference between a 3D Viewer and a 3D configurator?
Both apps run in a browser without requiring significant resources to work online. However, the 3D configurator lets customers modify the parameters in 3D, such as the interior's texture, colors of walls, material types ( plastic, metal, wood, etc.), modify the shape of the product, such as adding or removing parts, adjust the curves and angles, alter the size of the product, select different types of packaging or customization options for packaging, and more.
For example, the configurator on a car manufacturer's website would have nothing to do with how manufacturers produce a car on the assembly line. The web configurator would serve as a tool for the customers to see the object visually and adjust it to their liking (like choosing all sorts of options for the car windows, color, wheels, etc.). BMW and Tesla already use a 3D configurator on their website to allow customers to design and customize their cars. In their case, the configurator provides a realistic 3D view of the car, allowing customers to see how different options and features will look before purchasing.
You can read a detailed case study about 3D interior configurator in our blog. At the same time, the 3D Viewer app has options to showcase and manipulate 3D models.
HOW TO START TO DEVELOP THE 3D VIEWER WITH THE EVENSTAR?
First, determine which products you want to turn into 3D and send photos of the products to the 3D designer. Then decide what features the 3D Viewer should have. Be ready to ask any questions and provide feedback. If you want more details about converting photos to 3D models, you can read on Behance our case study: The Basketball.
Once the 3D models are ready, the second step is developing the 3D Viewer.
The Evenstar team offers a range of technologies, including Threejs, Babylon, and plain WebGL, to develop a customized 3D Viewer that suits our client's website. Our developers select the technology based on the client's website's tech stack, usually using Threejs or React-Three-Fiber if the site is built on React, ensuring consistency and optimal performance.
CONCLUSION
3D models are easy for everyone to understand, so let 3D Viewer speak to your customer and bring their visualization to life in the app. The application development includes a choice of the technology stack, architectural planning, the development of all application components, and testing. Users can view 3D models in a player window implemented with WebGL and the latest 3D rendering standards. So let the 3D Viewer on your website convey the value of your products, impress and affect the customers' decisions.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about implementing 3D solutions.
