eBay now helps you to get a 360-degree have a look at a number of the sneakers it has on the market, all because of its helpful new 3D viewing device, known as eBay 3D true view. In a submit on eBay’s website, the e-commerce platform stated that the function will let sellers add interactive photographs of their sneakers to listings. It’s partnering with Unity, a platform that can be utilized for real-time 3D modeling, to pilot the function.

Starting this month, eBay says that choose sneaker sellers will get the possibility to check out the function, nonetheless, the 3D photographs will solely be viewable from its iOS or Android app. To use it, sellers must use a proprietary app to take a video of their sneakers from all angles. From there, that knowledge is uploaded to the cloud and processed “using AI methodology” (that eBay didn’t elaborate about) leading to what eBay says is a “photorealistic” 3D recreation of the product.

While the function is just out there to a restricted variety of sellers presently, eBay plans to broaden it in 2022. Any sneaker sellers considering utilizing the 3D function can join the waitlist. The function is stay on the location proper now, and for those who’re on cellular, you can begin viewing sneakers in 3D from right here. It seems that not each itemizing has the 3D viewer proper now, although, so that you may need to faucet a couple of totally different ones earlier than you discover a itemizing that makes use of 3D true view.

eBay continues to dive headfirst into the sneaker market. In October, it rolled out a sneaker authentication service to assist fight counterfeiters and later purchased out the third-party sneaker authentication firm that it was utilizing, known as Sneaker Con. eBay isn’t the primary on-line market to implement 3D views of sneakers, nonetheless: StockX has been offering 360-degree images of sneakers since 2016.