HowManyIdentities

HowManyIdentities, originally uploaded by saumier.

Where is My Virtual Model in this maddess?

ecard - Sears / Kmart

ecard
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Holiday shopping and planning made easier on ReadySetHoliday.com

Send a free Holiday Ecard. Brought to you by http://www.mvm.com (the company I work for, in case you hadn't guessed :-).

Sears - Home Entertainment

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Originally uploaded by saumier.

View televisions, DVD players, electronics, home audio, computers and furniture for your Home Entertainment room. Brought to you by http://www.mvm.com.

http://searsmve.mvm.com/sears_mve_ctx/jsp/handlers/main/mvmvdrhandler.jsp?roc=sears_mve&pop=GEN

Lowes - Creative Laundry Spaces

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Creative Laundry Spaces - An interactive planner and workbook for the restless renovator in 3D! Brought to you by http://www.mvm.com.

http://www.restlessrenovator.com/

Try-on garments with semacodes!

A very interesting development in the barcode space. 

 

Imagine a user walks into a clothing store, walks up at a garment, and with a simple click on their phone visualises the garment on their Virtual Model.  The user then clicks clicks their phone again to purchase the garment - and walks out of the store using their existing "recycled" shopping bag to carry their legally purchased products home.

 

Introducing the "semacode"!  Place a semacode printed label on each garment and all the user has to do is take a picture with their camera phone.  Phones equiped with a small software to interpret the semacode will open up the phone's web browser and display the garment on the screen of the phone.  "Semacode works by embedding a URL (web address) into a sort of two-dimensional barcode which looks like a dense crossword puzzle (pictured) — called the tag. The SDK software contains the capability to detect and decode the tag very rapidly with the camera on your phone. It extracts the URL and sends you to that address using the phone's built-in browser. "

Here is an example:

 

I actually tried this with my phone (Nokia 60 series) and it worked like a charm.  Now the question remains, what URL link will retailers place on their garments?  Of course the right answer is a link to try-on the garment using My Virtual Model technology.

 

Read more about it here:

http://semacode.org/

My Virtual Model's new Badge!

Men are not yet available, so I created the Virtual Model of my wife Sylvie. Here she is sporting her autumn look!

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Weight Loss Community

My Virtual Model has a grass roots community of people seeking to loose weight.  I am putting together a photo gallery of people's blogs to help us understand what this community is all about.

 

From my observations so far, it is clear that people in this community want to go shopping, and do go shopping using My Virtual Model's virtual dressing rooms.  Not only do they want to shop for plus size garments, but they also want to start shopping for smaller sizes based on progress towards their goal figure.  This quote is from a blog that illustrates how people distinguish between plus size VDRs that offer clothing for Plus sizes, and regular VDRs that only offer smaller size garments.  This shows how a "long term" relationship is valuable with these shoppers, and how MVM can develop a relationship and even help people return to shop as they approach their goal weight!

 

From blog http://blog.designedlykristi.com/?p=166

"The pics I pasted together from a site call My Virtual Model. These images came from the Prevention Magazine one, though I have played with all three of the "All Sizes" variety. I'm not quite [clear if all] of them would work for me, though once I hit my goal weight I'm home free and can use any of them. Thanks for all the kudos too! I really helps keep yourself motivated!"

In the quote above, the "All Sizes" reffers to how we categorize our VDR sites on our home site.  Today, most of the VDRs are not under "All Sizes" but under "Regular sizes".  The quote above illustrates the excitement about returning some time in the future to shop of all of the "Regular sizes" stores.  If MVM could help people track their goal weight and remind them to return to MVM for shopping by developing a personal relationship with them, a significant and loyal community could be built.  On the other hand, it looks like this community is so motivated that they will come back to go shopping even without any reminders from MVM!