Field notes on AI guided selling.

As online shopping gains significant momentum, consumers expect a superior virtual experience. In the 21st century, personalization is making a huge stand. That's why allowing consumers to customize their products is the key to high conversion and retention rates. An interactive product configurator is a powerful tool that doesn't just allow customers to explore items from all angles–it helps them create a perfect product by playing around with different configuration options.

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.

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."

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."

Today, more than ever, buyers in the B2B category expect high-quality visuals and interactive experiences while shopping for the right solutions. Nowhere is that more true than in commercial furniture. The 3D Configurator for Office Furniture from BostonTec is leading the charge in helping office managers find the furniture they need with the online furniture shopping experience they want.

There’s a movement happening in the building supply industry where personalization and customization are over taking mass production and manufacturers are left with juggling greater product complexity. But companies are learning to evolve and adapt. There are two solutions that help B2B and D2C companies face operational and sales challenges to advance ahead, quicker.

Are you a Salesforce CPQ user that utilizes their software to get the most accurate pricing for all of your product configurations? Are you looking for ways to make your business truly stand out from the competition? If so, you should think about incorporating 3D and AR products into your business model.

As a furniture and home goods brand that also sells to businesses commercial purposes, you have a very important mission: To make any space feel like a home. Some of the biggest brands in the world are amazing at doing this. Chalk Ink, Ace Hardware, and, of course, IKEA to name a few. However, your business can be any size, and your goal on social media should remain the same. You want to inspire your B2B customers to create space that fits them.

With the recent health crisis pushing retailers to expand their brick-and-mortar stores online, Shopify merchants have to rethink their strategies to fend off new competitors and boost sales. Virtual sales through 3D product customization is emerging as an ideal differentiator that unlocks sales opportunities for Shopify merchants. According to Shopify's internal data, leveraging 3D and AR can increase conversion by up to 250%.