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Hello,

I might invest some money into goods and make a website and sell them online.

But I dont wan't to sell them normally like all other online stores. I have an idea.

It's like a online mall. (exe+server) You virtually walk through the mall and pick up goods (just virtual images) and put them into your cart. after that you should be able to bring them to the virtual counter and enter your credit card number and the items are shipped to you. I should also have people (like moderators) to walk around and make sure people don't violate the rules.

I should make some of the goods be software such as downloadable games,movies,music.

Would this all be possible?

If so can I have some help?

Thank you..

Peace

Very Possible

Possible.. but it's been done before and wasn't very successful then either. I guess the problem is that it's just a far too cumbersome way of shopping online. I remember beta testing a system like this when I worked at CompuServe (about 10 years ago) where they had a whole 3D village you could walk around, buying stuff in the 3D shops etc. Good novelty factor, but wore off damn quick and became tedious. Never got out of beta test stage.

Probably doesn't help much that VRML kinda died on it's arse and never got out the novelty factor.

People just want to shop quickly without much hassle.
You want to really give them a better experience then combine both ideas.

Have them access the store online like you would normally, but the products themselves could be 3D Windows that allow interactivity with what your buying to find out more information.

Much like how NVIDIA have thier X-Box Website structured. You can play about and see the processor capabilities by holding the mouse over it and such.

There are many online 3D Content creators which make this possible with little down-time for the shopper. If you provide for them a 2D Image as an alternative while the Shockwave3D/Viewport/VRML is loading then that won't annoy your 56K users not seeing what the product is like before hand.

Providing some nice animated actions throughout the store would also help, like small flash button animations.

But as I said before, try to keep things simple. Remember not everyone has the most top-end systems or connections.