Virtual Reality Mall 9-8-10

On Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, I went to the Castleton Square Mall. There are a lot of stores and restaurants inside and outside the mall. Newcomers to this mall could end up lost in the mall. Castleton Square may have maps inside, but sometimes maps may not be as intuitive as they should. So I thought, "Why not use the Virtual Reality Cave technology as a tour of the mall for newcomers? That way they could plan a trip to their store(s) of choice." There would be this special room in which new mall-goers enter and then use the wireless controller to move about the virtual mall modeled after the actual mall. The room would be periodically updated to include new stores.

Speaking of new stores, there can sometimes be a space in the mall with a sign that says "Coming Soon" with the name of the upcoming store. What might work even better would be a "coming attractions" style sneak-preview of the upcoming store or restaurant. That would be where the V.R. Cave from the previous technology example comes in. Mall-goers would be able to "tour" the new store/restaurant to see what it looks like in the same way new mall-goers would tour the mall. Chauncey's capstone project, the Smellevision project, would be incorporated into tours of perfume stores or restaurants to smell the perfume and food respectively.