There already exists a virtual mall nowadays, where you can even interact with fellow shoppers.
There are already 3D shopping malls in the market, where after seeing this, memories of the mid to late 90’s come flooding back to you – a time when websites built on real world metaphors filled the Web landscape.
During the early years of the Web, before content had semantic meaning, sites were developed as a collection of pages. Sites in the 1990s were usually either brochure-ware (static HTML pages with insipid content) or they were interactive in a flashy, animated, JavaScript kind of way. In that era, a common method of promoting sites was to market them as “places” – the Web as a virtual world complete with online shopping malls and portals.
So we have to admit it is surprising that the virtual shopping mall, as a concept, is alive and well today. But one that is worth mentioning, and that has actually launched already is a virtual mall, where users navigate a virtual shopping mall in a 3D environment. Here, all of the shops are a part of the virtual mall, rather than being external sites. This type of virtual mall is the next generation of retail because it comes with a virtual environment as well.