Bodymetrics uses Microsofts Kinect controller to visualize wether an outfit fits your body. Neat concept if only customers would not need to own a Kinect to use it.
"At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the London-based company showed how it lets you scan your body at home using a 3D capture camera from PrimeSense.That gives the system — a computer or, in the future, an Xbox 360 game console — an exact image of what you look like. Then you can try on clothes in a virtual way, standing in front of your web-connected TV set and using hand gesetures to look at different selections. When you try on an outfit, you can view a heat map that shows additional data you can’t get through ordinary online shopping. For instance, you can see a heat map that shows areas where the clothing would fit your body loosely or where it would be too tight.
It takes about a minute to be scanned into a PrimeSense camera, which maps a 3D space, including your body, and is the technology used in Kinect, which has sold 18 million units for games on the Xbox 360."
The Berlin, Germany based startup UPcload uses common webcams and a CD in the hand of the user to measure their body size for a fashion shopping online with less return shipments. That is less sophisticated than Bodymetrics' approach but obviously has a potentially higher reach.
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