Y’know, that virtual PLM blog post of mine and the “Next Gen” series I’ve been writing since were inspired by witnessing an everyday person I know in Second Life learning to use some in-world tool they’d purchased for creating virtual clothing. The combination of knowing how tech-illiterate this person actually is/was with the social interaction I observed between her and her adult daughter brought me back to when I first realized how powerful a virtual world could be for real product development. The FIT stuff which came after only solidified that idea.

Now if I could just locate a company willing to try this for the development of a non-fashion product.