February 19, 2020 - reworked and much improved Mac software v3.6.4 is now available. The new installation is a simple 18 MB download and doesn't require separate third-party components that were causing issues in the older releases. PRO version is available upon request and via built-in software update option after Feb 24, 2020.

The title pretty much says it all - finally after some delays and broken promises we have something to offer to our Mac users! It doesn't look like your usual slick Mac app yet (coming later), but it gets job done and that's what matters. So if you are a Mac user, you can now create 360 views quickly and efficiently with our SpotEditor for Mac (beta) and benefit from the variety of unique features for 360 product photography and 3D modeling / CGI that we offer in WebRotate 360 Product Viewer.

Download SpotEditor for Mac (beta)

There are two prerequisites that you will need before SpotEditor can run on Mac which the app will warn you about if they are not installed already:

1. X Windowing Layer (X11), which is often already installed on older Mac machines under Applications->Utilities or bundled with Mac Install DVD (and also required if you run apps such as GIMP, Matlab or OpenOffice for example) but may need to be downloaded and installed manually if you are running newer releases of Mac OS. The XQuartz project provides this free software and you can download the most recent version of X11 app on their website here.

2. Free Mono Framework build 2.10.9_12 that you can download from Mono website using this link. To learn more about Mono project, please visit this page. Now included with the main software download. Just go though the readme in the Mac download.

Simply unzip SpotEditor.app.zip on your desktop and you are ready to go (checkout this video that shows the software in action). The very first run of SpotEditor may not be successful (due to a known issue with X11 on Mac) - simply run it one more time and it should be starting fine from now on.

We're looking forward to any feedback concerning this release as we want to ensure that Mac users have the tools they need.

There have been a few requests recently for a video tutorial for SpotEditor, and so we finally have our first video or rather a demo that shows SpotEditor v3 in action (switch to HD if you have enough bandwidth).

You can download the software on our 360 viewer download page.

Another cool sample by folks at See 360 Degrees photo studio in Carnegie, Australia using our latest v3 release. It really shows how this technology can work even without object rotation - just click on the image below.

By the way, the upcoming minor release will have a couple of settings designed specifically for this type of 360 degree product animations.

Another idea is to duplicate 360 degree photos used in this animation in reverse order and add them to the end of the original sequence - this will eliminate the abrupt ending of the animation at the end of the sequence - something we should probably add as an automated feature in our 360 photography software.

Here's one impressive 360 view or rather 3D view by Gigabyte of their new line of laptops - U2442N.

It's running our older viewer v3 beta, but it features really stylish clean customization of controls that we surprisingly don't see too often out there (it's a really simple CSS change!). 3D rendering and hot-spots are also super cool. This again highlights how 3D CAD renderings can be successfully used in online product presentations in conjunction with the interactive capabilities that we offer in our 360 photo software.

Click on the image below to see it in action. There are a few more 360 views of other nice laptops there to explore. Great job Gigabyte!