Three-dimensional advertising is a new and inno vative form of interactive advertising that
provides prepurchase product inspection on the Internet using 3-D visualization technology to
simulate real prod ucts. A simulated 3-D product may have many inter face properties. For
example, shoppers may rotate it, zoom in and out for inspection, animate features and
£Unctions of the product, and even change the color or contextualization with other products in
different set tings (for a review of interface properties of 3-D prod ucts, see Li, Daugherty,
and Biocca 2001). Furthermore, marketers have the ability to utilize these properties within
banner ads, pop-ups, and prod uct Web sites to influence how consumers think and feel about a
product when interacting with it on the Internet. The potential psychological impact of 3-D
advertising can be better understood with the theo ries of presence and virtual experience.