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If Your “3D Website” Is Just an AI-Generated Video in the Hero Section, Stop Calling It 3D Development.
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If Your “3D Website” Is Just an AI-Generated Video in the Hero Section, Stop Calling It 3D Development.

DEV Community: frontend·Michael Darasimi Jace·4 days ago
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I'm probably going to offend a lot of portfolio developers with this one, but somebody needs to say it.

Putting an AI-generated video of a futuristic object in your hero section, adding some text animations, and calling the result an immersive 3D website doesn't automatically make you a 3D web developer.

You generated a video.

You embedded it.

You animated some text around it.

Congratulations. But what exactly did you engineer?

Where's the actual 3D scene?

Where's the camera control?

Where's the interaction between the user's scroll and the object's position?

Where's the ability to manipulate the object, change its state, or explore the scene in real time?

If the entire experience is a pre-rendered video playing inside a section, the user isn't interacting with a 3D world.…

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