The present inventive concept contemplates a method that of producing a walkabout reality for a user by extracting user-associated characteristics from social media interactions of the user, and using the user-associated characteristics to select a theme and corresponding theme elements from a theme data store. The invention further contemplates producing a virtualization of a current physical environment that includes the avatar of the user and corresponding theme elements. An augmented reality engine executes commands from the user to control actions of the avatar with the virtualization.