Thursday, November 17, 2005

Social Shopping at Yahoo

Yahoo calls its new offering the "Shoposphere"; like the blogosphere, it aims to be a world where users connect and link in multiple ways.

Friday, November 11, 2005

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

20-20's Virtual Showroom

The Desktop Edition of Virtual Showroom is intended to help you enhance your physical showroom by adding a kiosk or computer to show your customers the products, options and finishes not seen on your showroom floor

3D Garment Creator - Fashion Revolution

3D Garment Creator
Automatically promote your 2D silhouettes to full 3D garment models.
Fashion Revolution says:
By 2003 90% of our business was in the apparel and textile industry and so we rebranded as Fashion Revolution.
In 2005 we sold our consultancy and web design business and moved exclusively online, establishing 3Dfashionrevolution.com, specialising in developing our 3D fashion tools for fashion illustrators.
We now have almost 2000 users of our solutions worldwide, ranging from corporates right through to small business's, schools and individuals.
The core engine has been developed by Sky Blue Research from their own game engine:
The 3D Garment Creator series of products has been the primary focus of Sky Blue Research, it has been exclusively commissioned by and developed in partnership with Fashion Revolution (previously known as Burneth Ltd.).
Fashion Revolution tried to get new code via bounty programming this last September. The bid was for Flash, C/C++, Python. No one responded and the bid was closed after a single week on Sept. 8, 2005.
We are looking at rewriting our software that converts 2D garment drawings to 3D
models.
1 - We need a program that will take a model out of Poser and automatically
create the appropriate data files and templates to enable garments to be drawn
and promoted to 3D to be fitted over the Poser model.
 
2 - We need the 2D - 3D garment promotion process.
 
3 - We need to be able to import the finished 3D garment back into Poser.
Poser is an entry-level 3D package for human form modeling which could really provide a worldwide user base.

Tuesday, November 1, 2005

GirlSpace.com - Cartoon version of Virtual Model

This site generates some exitement by emailing a cartoom virtual model to friends with a story background.

http://www.girlspace.com/funandgames/virtualmodel.asp

  1. enter an age older than 16
  2. create an account
  3. create your virtual model

 

 

User on a Virtual World Tour

beeooll's blog: This user creates a VM and makes a world tour by inserting the image of their VM into photos and modifying their VM with accessories like cigarettes.
 
You need to scroll right down to the bottom of the page:
 

Survey of user created Weight Loss pages!

Recent forum shows how one person can trigger a community to create VMs WITHIN hours. 
4 users of the forum have created their VMs in response to a single user mentioning MVM.
There is even a photo of a user that really looks like their VM!
The user also prints out the image and places it on the fridge.
 
Lori's page with comparion to photos:
 
Carmen: This page links to our compositor server, beacuse the user does not know how to host images.
She even created a questionnnaire.
Parts do not work because we changed our MVM site.
 
TShannon: This page has prominent virtual models, and photos of the user on a secondary page.
 
Hannah and Coleen. The journey of two girls looking for the perfect...
User with a good description of A. B. C. virtual models of herself.
 
Jessica: This page is from another user.
 
Donna's Journey: Yet another page from another user.