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There’s been a few companies doing this. Some years ago, the retail side explored doing this with connected “mirrors” in stores… didn’t take off.

Amazon has/had something like this also. They bought a company that essentially did a “try the clothes on before you buy” tech. It shows up in some bits from them still (clothes, furniture, etc).

Just a few examples… apparently quite hard for companies to stay in that space for long.
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Justina 2y ago

Oh wow I never knew! I wonder why it’s so difficult - I feel like it would decrease returns and could make returns policies tighter

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arjwright 2y ago

A few reasons I can guess…

- Camera recognition IP is pricey

- Privacy bits… cause *everything* during that “try on” will be logged

- one chain can do this, but not all, making it a regulatory nightmare

There was a fit in 2017 right after CES (Consumer Electronics Show) about all of this for just makeup “smart mirrors.” And that evolved to the “WeChat is making folks lighter/smoothing out wrinkles” fervor. Which turned into a hard look at camera tech. Which turned into why Google is louder about their camera tech not being biased towards lighter skin tones…

…it’s a cascade of reasons

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Justina 2y ago

Well damn … I didn’t even think about those things. The idea of privacy is definitely an issue here because like you touched on - EVERYTHING will be logged. 🥲 I’ll have to curb my laziness with trying things on for a bit longer.

Thank you for this!