VR eCommerceBy: Mike Pigott and Ryan Jerchau

The Project

Exploring VR eCommerce systems using existing technology to fill today’s needs.

Using Quicktime VR and Servlets/JSPs to create a new customer experience: Destination shopping In store panoramas Object rotations on key items

What We’re Doing Right Now Working with the Town of

Saratoga.

Creating a destination based on Saratoga’s main strip, Broadway

Making a prototype eCommerce interface with Celtic Treasures and Mabou

What Does This Have To Do With NetProg?!?!?!11??! Earlier in the semester we made

a proof of concept prototype

Used Amazon.com’s web services to provide eCommerce style functionality

Allowed rapid development

In Search of an E-Commerce Platform

Our Solution Must Co-Exist With Existing e-Commerce Systems

Avoid Reinventing an e-Commerce System

Search for an Existing, Fully Functional Platform

Amazon E-Commerce Service Amazon’s Entire e-Commerce

Platform, Available Via Web Services

http://aws-beta.amazon.com/AWSAlexa/AWSAlexa.wsdl

Apache Axis

Java Web Services Toolkit Considered to be the Next

Generation of Apache SOAP Built with a WSDL Java

Translator

The New ECS Interface

Using the Web Service//Sets the search informationitemIds[0] = itemId;responseGroups[0] = "ItemAttributes";responseGroups[1] = "Images";requests[0] = new ItemLookupRequest();requests[0].setItemId(itemIds);requests[0].setResponseGroup(responseGroups);

searchInfo.setSubscriptionId(config.getProperty("aws.subscriptionID"));

searchInfo.setRequest(requests);

//Performs the lookuptry { response = port.itemLookup(searchInfo);} catch (RemoteException e) { throw new UrpException("Unable to perform

search", e);}

Getting the Response//The ItemAttributes Response GroupdvdInfo = response.getItems(0).getItem(0).getItemAttributes();//The Images Response GroupdvdImage = response.getItems(0).getItem(0).getMediumImage();

dvd = new DVD();dvd.setActors( dvdInfo.getActor() );dvd.setDirectors( dvdInfo.getDirector() );dvd.setPrice( dvdInfo.getListPrice().getFormattedPrice() );dvd.setReleaseDate( dvdInfo.getReleaseDate() );dvd.setStudio( dvdInfo.getStudio() );dvd.setTitle( dvdInfo.getTitle() );dvd.setUpc( dvdInfo.getUPC() );

if (dvdImage != null) { Image image = new Image( dvdImage.getURL(), dvdImage.getWidth().getValue(), dvdImage.getHeight().getValue()); dvd.setImage(image);}

Using Servlets and JSPs

Servlets Used to parse and validate requests Perform the actual Web Searches

JSPs Display the Query Results

Book Information DVD Information Error Messages

Other Web Services

Amazon Shopping Cart Functionality

Federal Express Estimate Shipping Cost

Google Search for Competing Retailers and

Prices

Demo! http://

pigotm.stu.rpi.edu/vr_ecommerce