2. Virtual Shopping Network

Started in 2000, when I was trouble shooting Macromedia’s Fireworks program with their US Tech department, they accepted their software’s glitches and advised I used their newer product “FLASH”. After attending one of there UK lectures, I liked the Virtual Tour they demonstrated but when I asked them how to do it, they explained it was done in there film production product Director and the file size was to big for the internet.  But whilst it had not yet been created in Flash it may be possible to simulate it, a few years latter and a very clever Java Script programmer and I had completed the project, which was well received in Cape Town.  We adapted it to showcase Villas for rent and it gave my fledgling Villa Rental company a competitive edge.

The next year Multi Choice accepted to view it and a few friends and I, attempted to link it to the GDS, but funds ran out. This said, ever since then I have been thinking about ways to generate income from such a product.

More recently with 3D rendering technology improved by the gaming industry, I started to envision a, 3D Virtual World with avatars for people. This world would exactly mirror the world, every detail.  Except the shops in the Virtual World were occupied by our partners, Bulgari, Travel Agents, Real Estate Agents…. The biggest advantage is for Real estate agents as for about R1000 they could have their clients properties rendered in 3D a perfect 3D floor plan, with little picture Icons to show real pictures.

Then a huge stroke of luck, a Cape Town development company, we interviewed to create the finance software, were a big part of a International VC project that had run out of funding. Save basing the world on real life, there product was exactly what I wanted you could even look on shelves and buy products. They say it cost $200,000,000 and we can buy it for under $10,000,000, but I’m sure if we give them a free space in the first 16 companies we can have it cost free.

Linking this Virtual World to Face Book would make it universally popular. Google combining it with their mapping technology would get us in bed with Google and instead of them blocking our duplicating website technology, me more likely to partner with us, giving higher placement than normal listings, it is after all monitored and quality would be more relevant so displaying websites that they make money from makes a lot of sense. I personally feel if we get the package right Google will not only jump at the chance, the entire internet will be controlled by them forever more, or more to the point the internet will disappear and every one would use the Virtual World to shop and choose travel arrangement.

AQ series of fun games interlinked and allowing open source programs to link to S-World as I have names it, in memory of my Daughter Sienna.

Since considering the land development plans recently, an obvious adaptation would be to Build the entire development in S-World, so would be investors can have a real good look at off plan purchases.

Soon enough, we will be able to rent or sell prime beach front shops inside of S-World, this is already happening in other Virtual World that have been created.