Oh dear. Just when you thought you’d finally avoided the malls, the crowds, the irritating piped-in elevator music, well now you can attend a virtual one.
(What’s with the SL-like hand in the background?)
VirtualEShopping claims to be the “first virtual 3D shopping mall”. Um…excuse me? I suppose they’re making the claim because they’re trying to sell real world goods, but then Canada Post amongst many others did that as well in Second Life.
What strikes me about this idea is that they’ve stuck with the metaphor of, well, a mall.
Log me in! I sense deals!
According to the Port Clinton News Herald:
“Realistic 3-D imagery and audio simulating the sounds of a mall make roaming the Web site virtual malls a remarkably lifelike experience, except shoppers won’t have to endure bad weather and traffic to get there.
For business, the new service is an opportunity to reach customers on a pay-per-click basis. Merchants bid for location in the mall using an intuitive bidding system similar to other pay-per-click services offered by Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Shoppers will be transported to the 2-D website of participating merchants by clicking on the storefront doors in the mall. By clicking on an image, slideshow or video in a storefront window, a shopper is transported directly to a featured item on the merchant’s internal web pages.”
OK - so, it’s not really a mall, it’s a 3D environment that lets you, um, open Web pages.
She needs more sun. Or her textures need to load. Something.
Dreadful.
ewws.
The first what ?
Do you prefer this one ?
http://virtual-worlds.stonfield-inworld.com/ril-shopping-trading-goods-in-second-life-for-real/
Or this one ?
http://virtual-worlds.stonfield-inworld.com/saab-for-sale-at-ril-shopping/
The avatars are human shaped.
Although they do seem to lack knees…
You’re going to feel stupid if this takes off, Dusan, and it just might.
One year ago we opened the first real mall in newBERLIN in SL:
http://www.youin3d.com/en/11-2007-alexa-die-erste-reale-mall-in-second-life
As we rebuild Berlin scale 1:1 in SL, the mall is at its coresponding adress and even a kind of geotagged.
See a Youtube from the Opening Event in the real shopping mall in Berlin, Germany:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKs3ujS-2kM
Yeah, what kind of idiot would want to virtually shop in a virtual mall, especially badly designed, buggy ones, that are only populated by statues and stand-ins for people?
Oh. Yeah.
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