07 February 2011

Shoogleit.com: Create engaging interactive animations of your own short videos or pictures

Sometimes images are not good enough, have you ever asked yourself these questions when browsing the Internet:

  • Can I see the back of that object, product , dress?
  • How do I engage people more effectively with my website?
  • How do I explain my work in an easier, more interactive way?
  • How can I show my items in more complete manner so my customers will not return them?
  • Why it is so difficult to stop a video where I really want it?
  • I didn’t catch that detail, why is this video showing the item so fast?
  • How can I motivate my web users to return to my page again?
  • I will need to see that again and again until I get it, why video rewind is so awkward?
  • Can I add this to facebook, twitter, blogs, presentations to engage a bigger audience?
  • Can I replay the last 3 seconds of that video?
  • Why there is only a boring small thumbnail of this item I want to see?

 

Shoogleit (www.shoogleit.com) is one of the tools developed under the Digital Sensoria project at Heriot-Watt University, that allows anyone to create highly interactive web media to show off visually rich demonstrations, products and goods. Please click on some of the examples below to see it in action:

 

You can also easily create interactive videos (shoogle) using our online tool (it is free to use!). You just need a sequence of images or a short video of your product or demonstration.

 

Here is a quick two minute video tutorial on how to create shoogles from scratch: http://www.shoogleit.com/tutorials/
An instructables on creating fashion portfolios and catwalks: http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-Interactive-Fashion-Portfolios-and-Catwalks/
And a video tutorial on creating interactive computer generated animations: http://www.3dworldmag.com/2010/11/02/create-easy-3d-turntables-on-shoogleit-com/ 

 

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Using shoogles will make your presentations more engaging, you can show you products from many angles, entice users to return to your website more often and many more things.

Join shoogleit now and add interactivity to anything >>