I'm definitely aware the kind of thing you're talking. We're lucky that with our solution, we deal more with retailers than designer brands. So far it's been not that bad for us.
I created and ran a startup called the 3D Avatar Store between '08 and '15. All that's left online is twitter: https://twitter.com/3DAvatarStore/media . Since that time, been working in FR. But am looking for something new atm.
They wouldn't be our competitor on B2B, more like a user of this tech. They might have it at some point (either through us or in house), but only available for merchants on their platform.
You right, we don't handle fitting at the moment. It's difficult bc most e-commerce don't have diverse body shape model and many other reasons. We are working on it, will take some time for sure.
I'm going to hazard a guess that it's because the tech isn't quite there yet? People pay expensive money for photoshoots because of the quality but as far as I'm aware generative technology isn't quite there yet? Or who knows, you guys could be the breakthrough!
Yeah, it's slowly getting there but hard to reach 100% so will need QA to touch up for a long time. But the hybrid approach gets better rendering than photoshop vendor image (at least shopper have difficult spotting).
It's possible, and I imagine would be a very cool feature for a shopping app!
We went to the B2B path after launching Style Space (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-space/id1535818149) and realize we don't know how to run e-commerce haha. Might revisit the shopping app / marketplace idea once we have more validation and tractions.
Apologies for the late reply. I downloaded Style Space yesterday after you mentioned here, and the main problem really just was not being able to import my own photos.
A consumer play might be super interesting here; let users import their own photos, make their own outfits, share it with their friends, and add referral/affiliate links on the way to checkout. I work on consumer tech, so email's in my profile if you want to chat more.
Curation is becoming a big part of the next wave of online influence and you have a very unique opportunity to capitalize on that.
Frankly, I think it's just very hard to get the kind of effect you're imagining. https://www.formatech.com I know this company that does what you want, but I don't think their rendering is close to what you're imagining. We recognize it's difficulty, so want to start with a more constrained case, maybe will eventually get there :)
1) would love to rotate the model to see how it looks from all angles.
This our current product can do, if we were are able to get the side and back garment image from retailer (surprisingly a lot of them don't carry these images).
2) being able to customize the model to look similar to me (so I can get a sense for how the clothes would fit on my body) would be awesome.
This one is very hard, despite a lot of ask on it. We're working on it!
From a purely layman's perspective, why couldn't you get a head to toe photo of a subject, then have the subject enter in their height, then use that measurement to get the relative measurements of other body parts? You'd need a way to quickly identify the points of the body, but i can't imagine that is the difficult part here? The head to toe photo of the subject would need to be wearing skin tight apparel, such as underwear to ensure clothing doesn't throw the relative measurements off.
Interested to know where my assumptions here don't line up with reality.
Haha, cool idea! I thought we might had this discussion sometime internally. The truth is we haven't got time to explore it yet.
One possible difficulty I see is still how do we collect the face data / body data. Image generation has a strong bias toward domain -- meaning if we use one kind of faces during training, we will need that same kind of face during inference (with the same angle, lighting, etc..). It's possible but need more thoughts on how to ask users for good image.
I think that's one reason we avoid user uploaded images so far, bc it's hard for users to understand exactly what kind of image we need, and why their images doesn't work well sometimes. There's a lot to explore on this front before we can get a market ready product.
This is our ultimate goal! It will take some time :)
It's very hard to ensure good quality rendering on user uploaded image (a lot of out of distribution). We've seen others who try to do that, but quality not yet great.
We're considered the 3D option, it's difficult bc most retailers don't have 3D garments and it take very long time to create them. Maybe when that content becomes more available, we'll eventually replace our current system with 3D.
Interested to learn more about the type of 3D model you make. Drop me an email kedan@revery.ai if you're interested to chat :)
wow, that's awesome, thanks! Any suggestions / improvements? Most retailers are asking for diverse body shape supports -- super hard, we're working on it.
Curious what's the name of company you are at?