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The site as a world: when 3D helps and when it hurts

3D looks expensive on a website, but it doesn't always sell. Here's where it pays off.

A fantasy valley with floating islands

3D earns its place when an object is hard to grasp from photos: a house not yet built, a mechanism, a car in detail, an interior.

Where decisions come down to price and timing, 3D becomes decoration. Beautiful, but it won't add leads.

Three questions before adding 3D

  • will the visitor understand the object without 3D?
  • will the scene load in time on a phone?
  • what will the visitor do after watching?
  • 3D
  • WebGL