1. A method comprising: identifying, by a visual representation system displaying a visual representation of a virtual world, attribute information indicating a subject matter of both an environment depicted in the virtual world and an activity related to the environment being performed by an avatar controlled by a user; transmitting the attribute information to a visual recommendation engine; using the attribute information indicating the subject matter of both the environment depicted in virtual world and the activity related to the environment being performed by the avatar, performing, by the visual recommendation engine, a search of a coupled database for a plurality of items that match the attribute information indicating the subject matter of both the environment depicted in the virtual world and the activity related to the environment being performed by the avatar; prioritizing the plurality of items based on preferences and past interactions of the user; based on the prioritizing, determining a top number of prioritized items from the plurality of items; for each of the top number of prioritized items, retrieving an image that represents each of the top number of prioritized items and transmitting the retrieved images to the visual representation system; generating, using a hardware processor of the visual representation system, a composite visual representation by embedding the retrieved images into pre-existing objects of the visual representation of the virtual world; causing presentation of a view of the composite visual representation to the user that shows the pre-existing objects of the visual representation of the virtual world having the embedded images; receiving a selection of one of the embedded images in the composite visual representation; and in response to the receiving of the selection, causing presentation of the avatar interacting with a prioritized item represented by the selected one of the embedded images.