I imagined this as instructed as was simultaneously bored and depressed.
Why does it always have to be about shopping.
Another interesting question is "Why is shopify's blog the place talking about this, instead of somewhere else?" I remember that demo... it was amazing and then it did go nowhere. With modern face recognition and tracking, it should be entirely possible to use it for some nifty no-touch experiences.
tbh I gave up reading after the bit I quoted and hadnt actually clocked it was a Shopify blog (didnt spot the little icon in the corner or look at the url)
Still, I stand by my refrain "Why does it always have to be about shopping" as a refrain that is rarely out of place
But yes, first promote some gimmicky fun stuff to get the foot in the door and when it has arrived, show the real face.
In general interactive 3D on the web still uses too much computational power on the client-side for most devices.
It wouldn't be so bad if it were a browser feature, i.e. a website can use an "Eye Tracking" API instead of the Camera API (with permission granted), and get limited data.
Okay, it's not that I don't believe you, but what do they do with that data? How does it help? Unless you're marketing acne cream, I suppose.
Is that not the holy grail of adtech?
Even if it’s _theoretically_ coarse data/bucketing, that adds up to a lot of data to help deanonymization and targeting. Even if that’s done in the spirit of “just for ads”, it’s not a big leap to political targeting etc, and with the right data leaks, potentially even actual harassment.
Say they see you have legos, they market legos.
Or they see what you have (say a gun) so they rob you.
Or they track your habits. We noticed your apartment is dirty/messy - pay us a ransom or we post on linkedin or call CPS. Or use our cleaning service.
Also I bet you have to walk fully dressed when browsing (especially women) and you need to shave, or your social score drops.
Ah and will you know if the website ever stopped watching? Is it watching you (and recording) having sex?
"User looked at the buy button 5 times in the session but they did not buy" and so on.
If tiny IR lights or something else distinctive that the camera could recognize on the glasses could be used instead of actual eye/face tracking, I'll bet even more people would wear them.
It's published by Shopify, so in this case it's because it likely would not have gotten published otherwise. Unfortunately E-commerce companies are not known for their "research for the fun of research".
https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/building-a-vr-shopping...
My point is we’re already there and we’ve been here for years now. If laws like the GPRD passed, then it should be possible to counter or neutralize the problem
I would imagine this would be an obvious easy sell for CAD, so there must be something wrong with it, perhaps a patent, holding back progress. I will say that I've done CAD for projects (woodworking and making STL models for 3d printer) and people who do not CAD think that CAD people look at 3d animations 99% of the time, but IRL when I do CAD I spend most of my time thinking very abstractly (how to balance the spacing of power supply and PCB such that it looks nice, is easy to access, thermal concerns, wire routing... Or I can look up the clearance hole dia for a 4-40 screw now what is a common drill size with sane tolerances to drill it, how about an eighth of an inch?)
Why can’t people have a little more imagination and see this as a great new data visualization UX like for things like charts or maps, instead of automatically panning it to death?
This could be very useful in hospitals.
CAD and 3D modeling software?
the subdomain of this submission offers a clue about that