A essential part of blogging or running a website is keeping it exciting for users. You can have the best content in the world, but if your site is poorly optimized, hard to use, and slow to load, chances are you will not have recurring traffic. Fortunately, there is WordPress. WordPress offers some of the best plugins to keep your website exciting for users.
WordPress has well over 50.000 available plugins to choose from, so it`s no surprise that they keep up with the latest and greatest technical trends and allow your website to do almost anything you want it to do. One of the latest trends in web design are host VR options on your website. Of course WordPress, as the most used CMS worldwide, has also covered this area.
What can you use VR on your website for?
VR is an innovative technology and at this stage of development 360-degree images and videos are often still seen as modern elements on your website. A few may take the trouble to attach an HTC Vive or Google Cardboard to view your panoramic image, but for those who do, you can display products or specific locations with excellent clarity using VR, signaling that you are an innovative and modern company.
WP-VR-View – Add Photo Sphere, 360 Video to WordPress by Alexander Tumanov.
This is the most popular VR plugin and allows you to display Photo Sphere pictures and 360 videos on your WordPress page, which means you can use your smartphone or the specially designed Samsung Galaxy Gear camera to take a panoramic picture or video. Site visitors can use their smartphones to navigate through your picture or video in a realistic and immersive way.
Supported web platforms are Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, IE Edge and Firefox. Native platforms are iOS 8 and higher and Android 4.4 (KitKat) and higher.
There are other plugins to choose from, which include essentially the same usage, such as MementoPress for Momento360 and VR Views, which allow you to easily use and display panoramic images on your website. Algori 360 Video is a fantastic special 360 video plugin that is especially useful if you only want to display omnidirectional video content.
WP VR – 360 Panorama and Virtual Tour Creator for WordPress ByRextheme.
The purpose of this plugin is to host virtual tours on your website, perfect for travel writers or people who want to rent or sell a property. With this plugin you can combine panoramic images into a virtual tour that will captivate people and is characterized by a simple and user-friendly interface, customizable features, easy embedding and intuitive navigation tools. There is both a free and a premium version, with the premium version offering some small extras and personal support from the team.
Virtual shop for WooCommerce ByOtaiz.
A special plugin is the Virtual Shop for WooCommerce. It is something of a trendsetter and shows what is possible with VR technology. WooCommerce is an open-source eCommerce plugin that was developed especially for online shopping websites with WordPress. As the name of the plugin implies, you can enter a virtual shop with your VR headset and explore the products on offer, get detailed information about each available product, put it in your shopping cart and then buy it. The idea is to give you the feeling of a brick and mortar shop from the comfort of your own home. The app is still at an early stage of development, but it gives an idea of what the future of eCommerce will look like when VR technology is fully effective.
So these are most of the options currently offered by WordPress. As mentioned earlier, some of the features for these plugins are still under development, but the technology is already available and can be used for free, so why nor try it out on your website?
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