The i-Fashion Clothing Technical Center of Konkuk University is trying out their new 3D-scanning technology in a golf shop in Korea. Apparently this system can scan your body and create an avatar based on your RL dimensions in 10 seconds, which is ridiculously fast. The model is then used to see how clothing might look on you before you buy anything.Clearly, this has amazing potential for avatar creation in virtual worlds. There's little technical spec info in this article, but that's not the important part. It's just going to get better, faster, smaller, etc. from here. And then the part where I get really excited: scanning wolves!
(Thanks, Iris!)
1. I belive this coupled with an AI plastic surgeon patched to people's brain would be marvelous, but the way it is now, many people will either buy scanned bodies of models, celebrities etc, or simply do their avatars the old fashioned way (manually editing parameters), only a small number of people will actually be confrotable showing the world their beerbellies, flat butts or weird distribution of body hair (common, even people that are conmsider to have awesome looks often idealize how they wish they was beyond what they themselves, or their money can make of their body), of course, there will be people that willl go on an unglyifying diet, scan themselves, then get back in shape and run around looking like average people, and many average people that won't mind how people perceive them online, but, except for the novelty factor i don't thing this will make much difference...but of course, my interpretations fo reality and whee it will go from now might not be all that acurate, and a bunch of average looking people will populate virtual worlds soon.... (or sotmhing like that....)
Posted at 5:22PM on Sep 5th 2007 by TigroSpottystripes Katsu