Thanks Philip. There are some neat options in the layout type that kind of go down this road but not completely ideal. Yes, Fade is a good one and I also like slider_horizontal. And then set Element Description to Yes. And also set Add to Cart under Product Features Display to Yes. This does serve a purpose with some possibilities of this concept.
A couple things I noticed is that with a few of these options, Fade for example, my item price does not display, both on the static view and also on the mouse over view, even with Display Price under Product Data Display set to Yes. And then more importantly, I seem to lose the responsiveness of the product (image) layout on my desktop and it doesn't work well on a phone device either. At least with my template. Maybe some custom code would correct this? Attached are images of this. The first image is with Fade on, the second is my inherent Image & Title.
But this might be something to look at further, maybe with some customization and aesthetics, something might work. But the price not displaying is kind of strange, unless I am overlooking that piece. Thanks again for the idea, I will continue to try some things with this.