Virtual Shopping on Second Life

Virtual Shopping on Second Life

Of all the virtual shopping islands on Second Life, I chose to go to Men in Action (MIA) because the name of the place sounds like Missing in Action (MIA). I would first introduce the scenery of the MIA.

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Men in Action

Surrounded by water

Beautiful waves

Crystal clear water

Nice scenery and weather

Men in Action Front view

MIA sell a wide variety of products such as.

Outdoors:

Surfboard

Vehicles

ETC

Indoors:

Shoes

Apparel

Hairstyles

Accessories

Skin Colour

ETC

Different types of surfboard

Internal view of (MIA)

The wall is made up of brick and the floor is made up of wood.

I feel that it is similar to the 19th century building.

It is impossible to find a shopping centre in Singapore that looked like this.

Shoes placed in shelf

Clicking on the Shoes boxes to buy the shoes is about the same as purchasing shoes in real life.

These shoes have different types of colours.

I wish I can buy it but I do not have Linden (a currency used in Second Life).

Shopping for clothes

These clothes are hang nicely on the racks.

I have seen before the design of these clothes in Singapore

There's no fitting room around so theoretically-speaking shoppers can't try out the clothes.

Yet, the clothes will magically fit onto shoppers instantly. I wonder how? Haha.

Met someone when I am doing the Virtual Shopping on Second Life

She was a friendly and helpful girl.

I walked toward her and said hi to her and we started chatting.

There are more pictures below.

Asked her some question

what is she looking for?

Joking around

At first, I thought that she was joking with me.

I told her that I can turn into a werewolf.

She was not joking and she turned into a Lycan.

Transformed back to human

Tips and tricks about Shopping

She taught me how to preview the items sold here.

You can only try out certain items.

E.g. The shirt that I showed just now? It can't be tried out.

Side view of my new hairstyle

I changed to a female character.

Because a female character is much more beautiful than male character.

Noticed that I changed my hairstyle?

The second picture will be much more clearer.

Back view of my hairstyle

Back view is much more beautiful than side view.

Noticed that there is a Demo sign on top of my head?

Well, it is just temporary.

Fly up to second floor.

Too lazy to climb up the stairs.

I wish I could fly in real life, it is so efficient and convenient.

Problems encountered

I wanted to make friend with them but they don't seem to be interested.

Kimmy Pitts Laughed and that is why she is on the floor.

They don't seem to be friendly.

Problem encountered

She asked me to buy her clothes but

I don't have any Linden with me.

They are much more richer than me.

After that, they went to other places.

Other problems

System Model: HP ProBook 4310s

Memory: 3036MB RAM

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz

Graphic Card :ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series

Graphic Card lower than the recommend specification =(

Photo with bug

• Business lab loading was much more slower than my computer so I never do the E-Learning at there.
• It takes about 20sec to Load a full set of clothes.
• Camera view difficult to adjust I spend a lot of time adjusting the camera view.
• The angle, zoom in and out so that the Picture wont stretch.
• A bit laggy.
• Spent a lot of time and effort taking photos.
• If not the photo will look like this.

Things that I like in virtual experience which I will not do it reality.

• In Second Life I can teleport to anywhere I wan in few seconds.
• "Flying around" mentioned previously.
• Asking stranger for suggestion about which product to buy. I would not dare to do this in real life.
• Able to change the looks of the character. Such as the height, skin colour, face, hair, even gender!

Different between E-Shopping Spree and Virtual Shopping on Second Life

• For the E-Shopping is not 3D.
• Virtual shopping is much more similar to shopping in real life.
• What I did in E-Shopping is to browse through different webpage compare the prices and products.
• No virtual character moving around to shop for products that I want in E-Shopping.
• Items cannot be tried on a character if we use E-shopping.
• Item brought in Virtual Shopping will not be able to use in real life but E-shopping item can be used in real life.
• Products that are show in E-Shopping are more realistic than virtual shopping.

What I gained from this E-learning experience

• I have learnt how to use the features on Second Life.
• Comparing the different between E-shopping and virtual shopping.
• Meeting new friends.
• Looking for different product and service that I wanted in different shop.