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>Do these shoes fit my unusual shape feet

I feel this is the biggest opportunity : how will these clothes fit you. Let me use my smartphone to register my body automatically(ios or android, they have enough sensors to map my body just with the camera and ML), then show me how this jean will fit me.

Of course one of the biggest issue would be that clothes have pretty large size variation (most of the fabrication is still done manually).

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There's a company here in Japan that's giving away free suits with sensors to measure you for a best fit.

Japanese: http://zozo.jp/zozosuit/

English: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/start-today-usa-lau...

I don't quite follow. Are these suits for individual consumers to use when they need to order new clothes? Or is it the sort of thing you'd have if you owned a tailors shop and customers put it on for test fitting?

It seems like an expensive item to give away for free, so they must be pretty sure that they'll recoup their costs?

It's a suit that they're sending out for free to anyone (individual customers) who asks, so I imagine they're pretty confident about the confidence in sizing leading to increased sales.

Something like this is already being done for made-to-measure apparel, e.g. https://www.mtailor.com/ for men's clothes and https://www.topologyeyewear.com/ for glasses (also - does anyone know if there's a service like this for women's clothing?). I do wonder how they're determining scale - seems fairly simple if you have two focal lengths, but these services seem to support single-camera phones as well. Are they getting data from the accelerometer to see how much you move your phone when you move it around your body/face?

The main problem now seems to be fully automating clothing manufacturing - it would be pretty cool to be able to scan your body and have a machine print out perfectly fitting clothes, no human required.

Nice ! Exactly what I was looking for !

The fabrication process itself might be the hardest part.

If you look at how high end jeans are made -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5520fSymY

Everything is stitched manually with comfortable size tolerances.

Actually, this might be a false problem .. I don't know how precise the measures need to be in order to fit.

So we might not have to automatize fabrication; just to change how sewing patterns are applied.

We have machines that do this in some Australian shopping centres.

https://mport.com/

I've never tried and never seen anyone go in them. Tt feels a bit intrusive to all a random company to scan & store your body.

> register my body automatically

Foreshadows the inevitable hacking and release of 50 million Wal-Mart customer bodyscans.

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