My virtual avatar in the virtual Home Depot.
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I visited Home Depot’s Virtual Kid Workshop it launched it Radcliffe City on gaming platform Roblox.
The virtual Home Depot was as a brilliant advertisement for kids, though extremely bizarre.
I found virtual supplies and built virtual items like a bird house and 2-seat car at Home Depot.
Hope Depot recently launched its first foray into the metaverse in Roblox, so I decided to visit and see what it was really like.
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I’d never played on Roblox before, so I had to make an account.
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Roblox is a free gaming platform with over 100 million active users, many of whom are children.
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Once I finished creating my account, I was prompted to download and install Roblox.
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While I’m not great with technology, the platform gave me an easy five-step guide to downloading it.
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Overall, the setup process only took a few minutes.
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And then the anticipation was almost over, as I could enter the “Radcliffe City” game where I could visit Home Depot’s Virtual Kids Workshop.
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I was asked to select between a “peaceful” and “loud” mode and opted for the latter.
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After selecting my mode, I received a message that Radcliffe City had a map update, including “The Home Depot Event!”
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Finally, I arrived in Radcliffe City, where I immediately was greeted by a Home Depot facade with a bright door instructing me to come in.
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But as someone new to Roblox, I wanted to familiarize myself with the features of the platform, including free costumes for my avatar, before heading to Home Depot.
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I also explored what tools were available at my disposal…
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…and decided I’d be best equipped to explore this world with some bread.
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I also played with various emotes for my avatar, with the dance pose action being my favorite.
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After dressing up my avatar and playing with emotes, I decided to explore Radcliffe City and see what it had to offer, including a toy shop called “Toys N’ Things” and a childcare facility called “ABC Daycare.”
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I also visited a playground…
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After a whole lot of dilly-dallying through Radcliffe City, I decided I was ready to visit the Home Depot Virtual Kids Workshop and was told very clearly on my screen that the game is an advertisement for the …read more
Source:: Business Insider