FaceCake lets you try before you buy, without ever hitting a dressing room.
At the CES 2013 Showstoppers event, we had a chance to go hands on with FaceCake’s Swivel dressing room, a Kinect-based technology that allows you to skip the dressing room and try clothes and accessories on in real-time. CEO Linda Smith took a minute to run us through the virtual dressing room system and all its new features – and then, of course, we had to give it a go ourselves.
FaceCake has been netting new partnerships, including a recent deal with Lancome that allows you to sample makeup without the real-life hassles that usually come with. Fingers crossed, this type of technology makes it to your favorite department store in the near future – although the caveat there being you might start actually buying items you normally wouldn’t, due to dressing-room phobias (pointing at self).
I love seeing new technology like this. I am surprised it actually works as well as it does. It seems to be pretty responsive to your movements etc. I saw Bloomingdales on one of the screens, is that a client they have already?
Bloomingdale’s actually tested them in stores as a promotion. Pretty cool. I want this to be everywhere.
Pretty cool. So is this software you install at your home, or do you need a whole special system to use it?
Just uses Kinect, but they are working with brands right now.
Heard about this months ago.
Needs a lot of work.
Love love that!
they already have this out ….I think it’s either Japan or South Korea I saw it.
False. This ‘technology’ lets you exercise your fashion vanity with no physical labor. It doesn’t let you do the most important portion of the actual purpose of trying on clothes, FITTING.
I have to admit, this is pretty awesome!