Augmented reality and something between secondlife and first life

While I was moving, I used MS word (Photoshop works better) to create a scaled model of the new house and see how my furniture fits into the new place. It saves a lot of time and energy when you are moving to a new house. But it is in 2D, so you can not get a good sense of how it would be like to live in it.

I always thought it would be a good idea to create a house similar to mine on Second Life and find or script objects that represent my furniture, and move them around to see how it would look like in a different combination. Better yet, imagine that you have created your virtual house, and you want to change the decoration. Yet you do not know is a leader couch would look as chick as you think. You can always try it on Second Life, as the cost of a leather couch is the same as a fabric one. Better yet, you get to try different arrangements in the room and after you play with it for a while, you decide on the ultimate setting of your virtual room.

I tried to do that in The Sims as well, but you can not customize the objects as much as you can in Second Life.

This video on Technology review gave me another idea. You can use your iphone to transport digital objects onto your "potentially new home" and see how your old furniture will fit into this brand new setting. Saves time, energy, and probably money. Plus it is a 3D sense of how your house will look like soon.