From: smoliar@maclane.iss.nus.sg (stephen smoliar)
Subject: Re: VR in fashion
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1991 06:21:41 GMT
Organization: Institute of Systems Science, NUS, Singapore


In article <1991Sep25.022337.28556@milton.u.washington.edu>
rick@xing.unocal.com (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>
>
>A brief mention of the Japanese department store using a VR system in the 
>VR show gave me
>a commerical VR idea: fashion.   [Wo]men could try on clothes or try out
>new hairstyles, etc. with VR.  We'd need a much higher resolution system
>than currently of course.  I am not personally interested in this application,
>but it could make the right people some money.


It's already happening.  The simulation of how different kinds of fabric drape
turns out to have been one of the major challenges in graphics.  I use the past
tense because there is now a system which does it and is running at the Fashion
Institute of Technology in New York.  My guess is that modeling hair is
currently work in progress.
-- 
Stephen W. Smoliar; Institute of Systems Science
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