1. A method comprising: determining attribute information indicating a subject matter depicted in a visual representation of a virtual environment being presented to a user; using the attribute information indicating the subject matter, performing a search of a coupled database for items that correspond to the subject matter; prioritizing the items based on preferences and past interactions of the user; generating, using a hardware processor, a composite visual representation by embedding images for the prioritized items into the visual representation; and causing presentation of a view of the composite visual representation to the user that shows the visual representation having the embedded images, all of the embedded images in the composite visual representation being simultaneously visually identifiable to the user that is viewing the composite visual representation.