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What Do You Look Like In The Virtual World?
posted by Editor on Sunday November 04, @02:48PM
Virtual Worlds MyVirtualModel lets you create a virtual model of yourself based on physical characteristics that you enter. The system asks you a series of questions about your height, weight, skin tone, hair shape and color, and face shape, and then creates a virtual reality model of yourself that you can go "shopping" with. You can use the model to try on different clothes, or ask for advice from a "Fashion Advisor" on the basis of your body type, coloring, and fashion goals. The company hopes that the technology will become a de facto standard for online clothing stores, and it can already be used at the Lands' End and JC Penney sites.

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    Boo.com? (Score:1)
    by usonian (andy@idontlikespam.greyledge.net) on Monday November 05, @02:24PM EST (#1)
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    Didn't Boo have something very similar to this? If not a "virtual model" of yourself, at least the ability to view two different pieces of clothing together to see what they look like? Boo has the dubious honor of being the first high-profile dot-bomb of last year's fallout.

    I have to be so skeptical of most of the new technologies that get posted here, but I have to say this whole scheme seems like it's about two years too late on the "Internet Technologies Nobody Asked For And Nobody Needs" timeline. What they're actually talking about is a "Virtual virtual model"; your virtual model is an approximation created from a questionnaire, not from actual measurements (as opposed to the inaccurate ones people too modest to tell the truth will give it) or digital scans of your face and exact hair/eye colors.

    Am I missing something because I buy most of my clothes at Target? It seems to me that somebody who's that concerned with how a new shirt of pair of pants is going to look on them is just going to go to a store to try them on in the first place.
    This is my home page.

    Re:Boo.com? (Score:1)
    by zyborg on Wednesday November 07, @02:14PM EST (#2)
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    Yes, but it is kind of fun. I see it as a gimmick more than any kind of real innovation. The technology does have a possible future. Imagine if you could go to the Gap (for example) and stand in a special change room that scans your body. Now you get to go to their web site, where not only do you get to see what the clothes look like on you, but the jeans you are buying are custom tailored to be the perfect fit.

    I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry

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