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> When the internet came about, the initial vision for retail was that you would have these avatars that would go to a shelf for a sweater and then walk over to
by clavicat 5y ago
> When the internet came about, the initial vision for retail was that you would have these avatars that would go to a shelf for a sweater and then walk over to the cash register and buy it. It was just stupid and didn’t make any sense.
That does sound like a very dot-com bubble idea. Wonder if Metaverse is also a bubble indicator.
- seastonATccs 5y agoIt's not good. It's virtu-good!
- tiahura 5y agoWebWorld / ActiveWorld 3.0!
- fortran77 5y agoI was working for Steve Kirsch at Infoseek during this time, and I remember, too, laughing at the people who thought this was the way people would shop. And all the hype about VRML at the Web conferences at this time! I pointed out to some of the starry-eyed believers that people have been shopping happily from catalogs for 100+ years, and that would translate well to the web. No 3D required. And we were a _search_ company! You would think someone would have posited that _searching_ may be a better model than _browsing_ for some things. Sure, the ability to spin something to get a 360 view (in a 2D browser) of something once you've seen it on a 2D page has some utility, but 4 orthogonal views handle that well enough too. I can't imagine I'd ever don a pair of 3D glasses to buy another pair of Levis.
- Tarsul 5y agoalso it's basically impossible to see if jeans fit. Not even in real life.