It's true, WebRotate 360 Product Viewer is primarily designed for the online world. This has been our objective from the start...

But the technology was developed to be flexible so you could test your work locally on your computer or take it to your customer and still be able to demo it while being offline. More so, we worked with several software companies to make sure their webrotate 3D product views could be incorporated into native mobile applications without relying on the Internet connection (using native web browser controls both iPhone and Android offer).

Update [Apr 5, 2022]: You may find an existing "off the shelf" app for your marketig team that can be used with WebRotate 360 software like the one we discuss here.

Now, in the advent of huge touch screen displays, these efforts proved to be even more valuable as some of our clients started using these displays at various venues by incorporating WebRotate 360 Product Viewer for super interactive digital presentations of their products. These interactive product tours range from simple 360 product photography to highly detailed 3D product visualizations sprinkled with interactive call-outs, animations and other cool effects.

Today we are showcasing one such example expertly developed by THE ACTIVATION SHOP for Telsmith and BTI. These companies manufacture mining equipment and their machines are so large and complex, it's hard to imagine a better technology than the oversized touch-screen displays you can see in the video and the photos below:

These interactive kiosks make it easy to create the wow factor you need by taking the wealth of your product information and the sales pitch and compressing it into a sophisticated high-tech digital presentation.

Mike Hopper, the CEO of THE ACTIVATION SHOP whose team has developed the kiosk presentations was very kind to say this:

"Our client represents large mining equipment. Not only it's physically difficult to display in a live setting - but it's even more challenging to demonstrate the features inside. Our 3D development skills paired with WebRotate 360's software turned out to be the perfect combination. Allowing us to virtually show the heavy equipment from all sides on 55" giant touch screens."

PS: we haven't tested any of the large touch-screen panels ourselves so far, so can't recommend a particular brand yet. It seems that there're a lot of choices though from companies such as 3M, Planar, Elo, Ideum, Nec, Samsung, etc.

Below you can see some of the related links we found while researching the subject. We strongly recommend to test the webrotate viewer on selected platforms before purchasing any expensive equipment to ensure that the multi-touch capability some of these displays offer will work with your 3D product views and hotspot design:

• https://www.touchwindow.com/c/60inchLCDTouchscreenMonitors.html
• https://ideum.com/touch-tables/
• https://www.planar.com/products/large-format-lcd-displays/

Announcing the release of v1.6 of our OpenCart integration. This one took some time as OpenCart had some major changes starting with version 2.2.0.0. We also wanted to incorporate all of the latest features that we have been releasing this year as part of v3.6 (version history).

So now you can enjoy multi-row 3D product views, Google Analytics integration, new styling with svg skins, new hotspot modes and various other improvements and fixes. This also allowed us to take some time to polish up our admin dashboard to look good and consistent with the rest of the OpenCart admin eco-system.

Folder structure of the module was re-worked to comply with the new OpenCart guidelines, so if you are on OpenCart 2.2.0.0 or 2.3.x and upgrading from the previous version of the webrotate plugin, it's best to remove the old plugin files first and then re-install using the new download links.

To remove old plugin files, please delete these files and folders fist:

• admin\controller\module\wr360
• admin\controller\module\webrotate360.php
• admin\model\catalog\webrotate360.php
• admin\view\template\module\webrotate360.tpl
• admin\language\english\module\webrotate360.php
• catalog\controller\module\wr360

You will also have to delete this webrotate vQmod file as it has changed as well:

• vqmod_webrotate360_header.xml

Good news is that the database structure hasn't changed, so all your existing 360 product view configurations will remain intact and will still work with the latest version of the core 360 product viewer.

We now also have a dedicated page for the OpenCart plugin where you can find the latest downloads and instructions as well as the version history:

WebRotate 360 Product Viewer Integration for OpenCart

If you have any issues with the installation or upgrade, please let us know.

Happy to announce that the first version of WebRotate 360 Product Viewer for Shopify has been released.

This time it's a full blown web application that neatly hooks into your Shopify dashboard while providing all latest features we released so far in v3.6. It's quite flexible too and should work with pretty much any Shopify theme or fine-tuned further by a Shopfiy theme developer as needed. And it's free!

Note that Shopify doesn't allow uploading folders to their file hosting yet which is required for WebRotate 360 and 3D product views to operate, so a separate hosting account is necessary. You may use any existing FTP account, setup an Amazon S3 account, etc.

Read more and install the app