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Virtual dressing room startup Revery.ai applying computer vision to the fashion industry

TechCrunch

California-based Revery is part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 cohort gearing up to complete the program later this month. While looking around for areas where there would be less monopoly and more ability to monetize technology, he became interested in fashion. the e-commerce fashion industry made up 29.5% landing page.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

Bigthinx – AI technology focused on fashion retail, wellness and the metaverse with products for body scanning, digital avatars and virtual fashion. ByondXR – Provides retail 3D virtual experiences that are fast, scalable and in line with the latest metaverse technologies. The Metaverse.

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Want to know how a dress looks on you? AIMIRR has your back… and front

TechCrunch

The company is also officially launching its first product and service in November after closing over 10 partnerships in Chicago and Seattle, including a collaboration with Fashionbar at Chicago Fashion Week, taking place this week. Kanani said the next iteration will involve an embedded link to create the experience on a laptop.

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Sequoia’s Surge reveals 15 India, SEA startups in seventh cohort

TechCrunch

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Nearly half of them have a presence in the U.S. and European markets, Sequoia said.

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Tier Mobility’s buy of Fantasmo brings camera positioning tech in-house

TechCrunch

That metadata is then compared against Fantasmo’s 3D maps to position exactly where the vehicle is located. The company did say, however, that the new tech wouldn’t be part of any previous or current programs Tier is running with outside companies. Drover AI also denied working on a new project with Tier.

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UK’s Mindtech raises $3.25M from In-Q-Tel, among others, to train CCTV cameras on synthetic humans

TechCrunch

Mindtech says Chameleon solves that problem, as its customers quickly “build unlimited scenes and scenarios using photo-realistic smart 3D models”. There is of course potential for darker applications, such a spotting petty theft inside supermarkets, or perhaps “optimising” hard-pressed warehouse workers in some dystopian fashion.

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DevOps Engineer vs Software Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

Like a fashion designer responsible for designing beautiful clothes, the software engineers are responsible for developing software desired by its client. 3D Graphic Designer. They are learning more than one programming language and database. Experience with different software programs. Customer relationship manager.