One question we often hear is how to use WebRotate 360 product views offline on iPad devices. Apple iPads are historically difficult when it comes to storing and viewing content that was created externally. Not to mention presenting dynamic content such as our 360 product spins that usually require a full-fledged web browser.
Luckily, there're excellent solutions for iOS that solve this issue and we will show here how to use one such app.
Kiosk Pro is an app by Kiosk Group located in Frederick, Maryland, USA and it's one of a few options they offer to help sharing digital content and interactive experiences using kiosk style devices.
To use use Kiosk Pro offline you will need their Basic version which at the time of writing is listed at $24.99. With this in mind lets follow this step by step guide to run a simple presentation offline with a single 360 product view that will take the entire screen of an iPad:
1. Install Kiosk Pro Basic on your iPad.
2. Publish a 360 product view or a multi-row 3D product view in WebRotate SpotEditor using the Mobile full-page template that you can select on the Publish form via the Template drop-down.
3. Connect the iPad to your Mac and start iTunes. Expand File Sharing -> Apps -> Kiosk Pro Basic under connected device.
4. Navigate to the published folder of your SpotEditor project in Finder and drag all files and folders from the published folder to iTunes under Kiosk Pro Basic Documents. Note the name of the template .html file which is the only html file in the published folder that you have just uploaded to your iPad (i.e KioskTest.html as per the following screenshot).
5. Start Kiosk Pro and enter the name of the html file under Content -> Homepage as this will be the entry point of the presentation for this exercise. Or you can select Content -> Local File Directory and pick the html file there directly.
6. Now you are ready to start the published 360 product view as an offline presentation by simply selecting "Run Kiosk Presentation" in the top left corner of the Kiosk Pro app and here's how it looks like using their default settings.
There're various settings in the kiosk app to help fine-tuning your offline (and online!) presentations. For example, you can use Custom Links to implement some navigation between multiple views or other product pages.
And if you have some basic html knowledge, you may combine multiple WebRotate 360 Product Views into a landing gallery or a catalog of your inventory that your "kiosk" users can explore offline.