Wearable technology is advancing at a rapid pace. Modern wearable devices may not be anything to fawn over, but a new generation of these devices is dawning. Apple recently revealed its Watch device, which is equipped with more features than any other smartwatch. The device is quite similar to a conventional smartphone, but designed to be significantly more intuitive and cater to its user’s movements and gestures.
Many wearable devices that are available today are simply novelty. They offer nothing more than a relatively interesting experience that is very similar to what can be found on a smartphone or tablet. These devices are often designed to serve a very specific purpose, such as tracking a person’s heart rate during an exercise or offering an interactive entertainment experience. Augmented reality headsets are somewhat more valuable in terms of the features that they offer, but these devices are typically only used for entertainment or social media purposes.
Current wearable devices may be little more than a stepping stone toward something much greater. Wearables are still not very popular in any conventional market, but they have shown that people are interested in new technology that is much more than a smartphone. As wearable technology becomes more advanced, it will likely become more integrated with humanity, moving from novelty to necessity in much the same way other mobile devices have. Once that happens, such technology could have a major impact on society as a whole.
Integrated technology is not a new concept. There are already people with NFC chips implanted beneath their skin. These chips can be programmed to serve a variety of purposes, from accessing electronic locks to providing easily accessible information about a person. It may be years before someone has a smartphone installed in their body, but wearable technology is beginning to show that such a thing could be possible at some point in the future.
This AR technology experience provides women with a virtual image of the way they’d look in various dresses.
A new augmented reality app is giving brides to be the opportunity to discover the perfect wedding dress styles for their body type and personal taste, and all this without ever having to step into a brick and mortar store.
This tool has been created to help to reduce the strain on wedding planning that can be felt by many brides.
While choosing a gown is meant to be a happy experience, many brides find that they feel overwhelmed by all of the planning involved in a wedding and all of the various dress options can become the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Even among those who are keeping up with the planning, dress shopping can be highly time consuming and difficult to work into a very busy schedule. This new augmented reality app is meant to help to make this process much easier and cut out a lot of the time and stress that can be associated with it.
The augmented reality app can provide brides with the chance to see what styles, silhouettes and fabrics look best on them.
According to the Wedding Dress Studio app executive director, Hillary Sica, “With thousands of wedding dress designs available today, dress shopping can be very overwhelming for a bride-to-be.” She added that “We designed Wedding Dress Studio to alleviate some of that burden and help women visualize what silhouettes, styles, and even dress fabrics will potentially look the best on them.”
The company that designed the app used AR technology to help brides to be to be able to better visualize the way that a certain type of gown will look on their own unique bodies. That way, when they do head to a bridal salon, they will be equipped with a far clearer idea of what she does and does not want from her gown, narrowing down the number of choices, right from the start.
The dresses displayed in augmented reality are not actual dress designs but are instead simulated style, silhouette and fabric types that are similar to their counterparts in reality.