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# Spatial commerce — REG-006, The Register

Spatial commerce is selling goods inside a three-dimensional space rather than from a page — a storefront a customer walks into, staffed and merchandised, where the item bought may be virtual, physical, or a virtual object carrying a claim on a physical one.

Spatial commerce is selling goods inside a three-dimensional space rather than from a page — a storefront a customer walks into, staffed and merchandised, where the item bought may be virtual, physical, or a virtual object carrying a claim on a physical one.

## What changes versus a web store

Three things: the customer is present rather than browsing, other customers are visible, and staff can be there. Presence and social proof are the mechanisms a physical shop has always used and a web page never could. The catalogue is not the product — the room is.

## Where it works today

Best where footfall already exists and a payout rail is native, which currently means UGC platforms rather than open worlds. The constraint is rarely the technology; it is that a shop nobody walks past sells nothing, in any dimension.

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## See also

Related entries in the Register. Every see-also is reciprocal — if this entry points there, that entry points back.

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