Just when the computer e-commerce world was starting to settle into a somewhat predictable revenue stream, a new form of e-commerce may be readying itself to take the world by storm. E-commerce is currently a catalog adventure for most on-line shoppers, where scrolling through pages of merchandise is the norm. Coming soon, and already here for many, is a three dimensional interactive world where e-commerce is just about ready to explode.
Advanced Content Services Inc., a development stage software/consultancy company, is the latest incarnation of a developing company dealing with Avatar commerce. Avatars are user created and controlled computer generated images that interact with one another in a computer generated world: http://secondlifegrid.net/gettingstarted/10_steps . Within this world, anything that might take place in the “real world” can and does take place. This includes parties, socializing, dating, entertainment and business. Within the computer generated world that Advanced Content Services has created, along with its inhabitants, several million dollars of real business is taking place with quite a bit more to come.
This “in-world” place has been in existence for some time as it found its technology and place in the market. For the most part, this world creation has taken time to create because the inhabitants, or users of the software program, are the ones who do the creating. The company now feels that the “in-world” environment has developed to such a degree that it is ready to be more fully commercialized. From this point of view, the company is embarking on an entertainment concept for the “in-world” marketplace where a world-wide talent search contest will take place.
Apparently, larger entertainment concerns have seen the potential of this type of marketing vehicle and posted funding of a significant nature. From all appearances, new management has been able to overcome and distance itself from past issues and move forward. In essence, whatever a person can do in everyday life, they can do inside this world. The options are truly limitless, as are the profit possibilities.
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