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Virtual Dummy To Try On Clothes
Roland Piquepaille writes "BBC News reports that Toshiba is working with a Japanese software company to create a 3-D fashion simulator that will allow virtual modelling and coordination of clothes, cosmetics and accessories in real time. This means that by as early as 2006, you will no longer have to contortion yourself in a minuscule fitting room. 'Video cameras snap the shopper, then clothes and accessories are selected and displayed immediately. The process of turning the images of the shopper into photo-realistic avatar -- or virtual representation -- happens in real-time.' This summary contains more details and references. It also contains images of a virtual model trying different clothes and accessories adapted to different backgrounds."
People don't try on cloths to see what the cloths look like. They can do that by just looking at them. People try cloths on to see how they fit - ie, how big their boobs/asses look.
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Is my coffee defective, or is this concept just underwhelming?
"Derp de derp."
After these roll out, how long would it be until the software is modified to bias how you look?
It could make you more "perfect," and you would buy that dress!
How long before large shopping chains will start to hack these programs to alter the shopper's virtual body to fit the clothes better, so they can make better sales?
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
First of all, the same size is never the same size is never the same size. If you really want to know whether the clothes fit, you have to put them on. A second, related point is whether the clothes are comfortable. No matter how good they look, in the end you need to wear them.
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I don't see how you could buy clothing without trying it on.
How many times have you run into clothes that are either mislabeled, or cut too small?
I've learned the hard way that it's always better to spend the 10 minutes trying stuff on in the store, rather than spend an hour on a return trip.
So I think this modelling scheme is useless. Unless of course that XL shirt is really an XL and not an L.
Also, you need to experience how clothes feel. Do they look cool when you look in the mirror? Do they feel good on you? Does that sweater itch your arms? A model can't tell you this.
I'm all for progress, but it has to be practical. Especially when it involves me spending money on something.
wbs.
You always need to try on clothes.
Huh?
How long before the representations are secretly tweaked (displaywaist = size 6) so that the shopper will "look good" in the clothes? And I can see the tie-ins with advertisers, with avatars saying things like:
"Hi shopper, this is what you look like now, but here's what you would look like (shrinks waist) if you go the XXX diet!".
Just wait until the kids start hacking it!
What is the inverse of the Matrix?
Because its really so hard to walk ten feet and try on new clothes. On another note when I try on clothes I like to see how they feel(ie too tight/loose), and I like to see what it looks like up close in a mirror, also what if the computer some how manipulated the clothes to make you look better than you really do look? Your probably just going to end up trying them on eventually anyways. And besides, is it really that difficult to visualize yourself with a shirt on ? I should hope not. This is a stupid idea and it will never work.
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So what happens to these representations of people after they're done using the system? Does it remain there for others to laugh at (or do other, much less socially acceptable things with them)?
True story.
I fully expect that most retailers would have a version of the software in which your big, fat butt doesn't look quite as big or fat in the clothes you're modeling. People want to buy clothes that make them look good and it is the job of the software to convince them that they look good in those clothes.
Mmmm.. Donuts
> After these roll out, how long would it be until the software is modified to bias how you look?
"Honey, do these pants make my ass look big?"
"No darling, it's your ass that makes the pants look big."
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'Video cameras snap the shopper, then clothes and accessories are selected and displayed immediately.
And I suppose the virtual models tell you which bits chafe?
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Hey, it's better than looking at a picture in a catalog, and people have been buying clothes that way for years.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Yes. Yes they have. The big selling point of the system in the article is that you don't pick from predifined body-types but rather have your own scanned into the system. Unless you're willing to strip for the scanner I don't think the scanned models would be much more accurate than the pre-defined ones currently in use.
I don't try on clothes to see how they look - I can see what hideously colours and styles they have just by looking at the rack. I try on clothes to find out how they feel - if it isn't comfortable, I ain't wearing it (even if my bum doesn't look fat...)