Field notes on AI guided selling.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Shop Threekit. Shop Threekit is the world’s first multi-brand 3D marketplace. That means it’s the first place on the web where virtual shoppers can go to find the best customizable products with high-end eCommerce customer experiences to match.

With this partnership, smart companies can develop immersive, visual digital experiences that engage visitors, boost conversions, and transform their businesses.

Augmented reality is becoming far more than a fun toy. Today, augmented reality is an invaluable tool for businesses. High-quality 3D visuals have seen a growing demand in eCommerce for at least the past decade but the pandemic caused consumer expectations to spike and they’re here to stay. During quarantine, shoppers were forced to do nearly all of their browsing and buying from home. Brands stepped up to provide them with highly detailed, photorealistic 3D product visuals raising the bar for every player in the digital marketing game. Some brands went a step further and designed augmented reality experiences enabling customers to view products in their spaces in real-time. Today, the competition is a short keyword search away and consumers have voiced their preference for brands offering AR for ecommerce. In fact, a recent study found that 66% of shoppers said augmented reality increased their confidence that they were buying the right product. So it’s clear that augmented reality can increase customer confidence, and therefore boost sales, but how can businesses go about designing and deploying an augmented reality solution? Fortunately, with rising demand has come new opportunities to incorporate augmented reality into your marketing plan. There are multiple avenues to that end of varying levels of complexity. Let’s take a look at a few options.

Consumers today are craving highly visual online shopping experiences. Showcasing products in real-life environments via augmented reality (AR) certainly seems like it would meet that criteria. But is AR an effective tool for eCommerce? We’ve all seen AR apps used to share fun, whimsical animations with friends and family but AR has far more potential than a few laughs. Think about it. With high-quality 3D visuals, AR gives consumers a chance to envision real, tangible products right in their own space. This gives them even more confidence than being able to browse a store’s physical inventory at a brick-and-mortar location.

In digital marketing, Augmented Reality (AR) has been all the rage for quite some time now, and for good reason. But what’s the best AR app for eCommerce? There are plenty of variables to take into consideration when rating the AR apps available to digital marketers but before we dive in, let’s take a look at what AR is and why it’s so critical for eCommerce today.

If everyone had unlimited time and money, pretty much every eCommerce website would have 3D and AR-enabled customer experiences. Why? Because they're cool and the evidence is clear that they improve site performance metrics. So the operative question becomes: are the results worth the cost? To answer that question, Threekit's Christian Pieper wrote a guide to ROI in 3D & AR applications for commerce called "What can can't 3D & AR do for you?" The guide includes hard data from independent research, describing and quantifying the benefits provided by implementing these technologies. We don't want to spoil anything, but we'll just say this: it's likely you're underestimating their value. An excerpt is published here.

Sapphire Balconies, already the leaders in modular balcony construction, have partnered with Threekit to support COACH, an innovative new tool for designing and specifying balconies. COACH makes it easier than ever for designers, architects, builders, and everyone else to design custom, compliant balconies, as well as the necessary design outputs for manufacturing. That makes COACH a perfect example of how Threekit makes it possible for smart companies to transform the way business is done. Let's take a look.

At Threekit, we help our clients build amazing eCommerce customer experiences mostly because it's really fun to watch it transform our clients' online business. We don't do it for recognition, but we'd be lying if we said it doesn't feel nice to be appreciated. That's why we were thrilled today to see our collaboration with TaylorMade Golf featured in an article by ZDNet contributor and Salesforce Evangelist Brian Solis called "2021: The year that 3D and augmented reality for commerce cashes in."

Posted here is an excerpt of a new piece by Threekit's VP of Marketing, Marc Uible entitled: "Gradually, and then Suddenly." In the piece, Marc outlines a number of key facts drawn from validated research into customer and business behavior online. From those facts, he shows an inevitible consequence: the coming proliferation of online customer experiences powered by high-end 3D visuals and augmented reality applications. Marc shows a number of compelling examples of brands leading on the edge of this trend and invites all brands to consider how they can ride this wave and not be capsized by it.

The past year has been a transformative one for eCommerce and business sales organizations. COVID-19 has added an element of urgency for businesses grappling with how to get ahead in the swiftly evolving digital commerce landscape. When we talk to customers and prospects alike, they’re asking a lot of the same questions: How do we better immerse our customers in our products online? How do we sell effectively when everyone is remote? How do we remove complexity from our process to focus on the things that really matter?

Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, more commonly known as LVMH, is the company behind many of the world's largest and most successful luxury retail brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Sephora. As part of their effort to identify and support emergent brands, LVMH runs an accelerator program in Paris called "Les Maison des Startups."

The medical device field is highly complex. A simple online purchasing experience like a 3D configurator for medical devices is a welcome advance in the industry. The leading marketing teams in the category are providing that. While they can’t change the technology, they can certainly make shopping for businesses as easy as possible with visual, interactive experiences.