Ideas for Multimedia Assignment

I’ve been thinking about this Multimedia Assignment (year 2).

As most of you know I’ve been working closely with my brother and his online company www.SelectSpecs.com – We sell Sunglasses and Prescription Glasses online.

I’ve been thinking about an interactive piece of software that would allow potential customers to upload and/or insert a photo of themselves and then select from a variety of glasses sold on the website placing the glasses on their photo to get an impression of what they would look like on their face before making a purchase.

This is potentially a useful tool for an online company, although it may not really have a place in a large opticians as a booth or kiosk since customers can usually try on the glasses in person except in smaller examples.

After some research I discovered a similar tool already exists here. I could potentially still attempt a project like this, in a slightly different way to the example here.  I feel this project would have the level of interactivity required for the project even without being placed in an interactive display kiosk/booth; while it may not be required in a large highstreet chain it could easily be placed in a small opticians much like you may get in a supermarket, or to help increase the range of lines available to smaller opticians.

A final product like this would require a very large database of products, I don’t know how easy it would be to create a database type system in Director but since this is essentially a prototype hopefully it will not be a problem.

What do other people think of this idea?
Does it have legs?
Is it achievable within Director?

I was doubtful at first but I’m really coming round to the idea now.

Your comments would be very helpful to me,

Thanks,

Chris.