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Virtual Dressing Room Rounds Out Online Shopping Experience

Motion-capture software lets you try on clothes you find online

By Dan Smith Posted 06.24.2009 at 5:57 pm 4 Comments

The major obstacle facing online clothing shoppers is the inability to try on a garment before purchasing. Webcam Social Shopper, a new virtual dressing room concept, is hoping to change that. Blending Project Natal-like motion-capture with scenes from Clueless, the webcam-based dressing room allows you to, sort of, try on clothes you see online.

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The Robo Thespian

By popsci Posted 10.20.2007 at 6:22 pm 0 Comments

Will Jackson's Robo Thespian is amazing. Here he is summoning the grand reveal from Empire Strikes Back, which is just one of the many scenes he can perform on the fly via a custom software controller. Actors record their voices and transpose their gestures with motion-capture devices, and each limb and feature—all the way down to his cellphone-screen eyes—can be pre-programmed or controlled live. —John Mahoney

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