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2009-10-13

Responsive Mirror -- Dressing Rooms Of The Future

Clipped from: BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Parc overflowing with new ideas

Parc overflowing with new ideas

The Palo Alto Research Center (Parc) in California is a place overflowing with new ideas. Its legendary inventions are well chronicled in several books.

Clipped from: Real-time clothes comparison based on multi-view vision - PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)

Real-time clothes comparison based on multi-view vision

[...] we present a clothing recognition system that augments clothes recommendation and fashion exploration using the intelligent multi-view vision technology of the Responsive Mirror, an implicitly controlled human-computer interaction system for clothes fitting rooms. The Responsive Mirror provides shoppers with real-time "self" and "social" clothes comparisons. The system recommends clothing that is "similar" and "different" than the clothing that the person is trying on in the mirror.

Clipped from: PARC's responsive mirror = every girl's shopping fantasy come true | Boing Boing Gadgets

PARC's responsive mirror = every girl's shopping fantasy come true

By streaming video taken by the camera through their spatially oriented machine learning software, PARC researchers have figured out how to give people like me a real-time interactive comparison shopping experience. The responsive mirror system, which comes in both a desktop and full-length version, displays previously worn outfits on a second "mirror" — the playback of a movie taken by a webcam on the ceiling that locates you spatially within the frame and then finds the same angled shot from the previous clip. The technology hasn't hit retailers yet, but PARC researchers are hoping to implement it in dressing rooms soon.

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2007-12-28

Amsterdam - Digging a Subway

Innovative mirror monitoring method intended to minimize disruption to street traffic

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Seventeenth-century masons built Amsterdam on a foundation of wooden poles planted in soggy, sandy ground, leaving behind a beautiful architectural museum _ but one with walls prone to sinking or crumbling without warning. So how do you dig a subway under it?

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The solution: 7,000 mirrors hung in clusters of three on buildings along the 2.4 miles of the route that's underground. Measuring devices shine infrared beams onto each mirror once an hour, measure the reflection, and feed data into a central computer.
After triangulating, the computer raises the alarm if any building shifts more than 0.5 millimeters in any direction. A millimeter is the thickness of a paper clip.
The system, unique on such a large scale, has already told townspeople something they may have guessed but couldn't know for sure: that theirs is a city in motion.

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