Let Your Virtual You Try On Clothes

Bleeding Edge

from the can't-be-bothered-to-do-it-yourself dept

It’s been almost five years since Levi’s opened a store where they asked customers to give them all sorts of personal info, which Levi’s would then use to create “customized” offers for you. Of course, this required you to tell Levi’s all your various measurements – which many people didn’t feel comfortable doing. Now, however, folks at Toshiba are finally looking to go further. They’re creating a system that can create a real-time 3D avatar of yourself. The idea is that, instead of trying on clothes, you just let this system scan you, and it will then present the virtual you on a screen and you can have it try on various clothes to see how you look. To be honest, I hadn’t realized the process of actually trying on clothes was that difficult. I’d also wonder about the system, since the stores offering it would have plenty of incentive to make clothes look better on you on the screen than in real life. Besides, I would think it’s pretty difficult to accurate show how clothing would look on someone. The reason we have try-on rooms is that just holding up a shirt against you doesn’t necessarily show how it really looks on you. A computerized model isn’t necessarily going to be able to do much better. The one area where this might be interesting is for online sales (though, you’d have to be scanned somewhere else first). I’m pretty sure others are trying out similar systems – but usually they involve just typing in basic measurements.