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Walmart acquires virtual clothing try-on startup Zeekit

TechCrunch

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The goal is to provide a similar experience to trying on clothing when shopping online as you would otherwise have had when in a retail store.

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

TechCrunch

students Kedan Li, Jeffrey Zhang and Min Jin Chong, is creating what they consider to be the first tool using existing catalog images to process at a scale of over a million garments weekly, something previous versions of virtual dressing rooms had difficulty doing, Li told TechCrunch. co-founders Jeffrey Zhang, Min Jin Chong and Kedan Li.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change.

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. Reducing waste is key to meeting environmental milestones, and some retail firms have narrowed in on a unique approach to minimize what their customers throw away: personalization. Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion.

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Make virtual experiences tangible with immersive technology

Capgemini

Make virtual experiences tangible with immersive technology Darshan Shankhavaram 20 Jun 2022 Facebook Twitter Linkedin An immersive experience doesn’t have to be all about the metaverse, for which the many potential use cases are only just emerging. Rather, an immersive experience today is the precursor of the metaverse. But slow down!

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Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong will join us on Extra Crunch Live

TechCrunch

On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live , we’ll sit down with Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong to discuss all that and more. Melissa Wong, on the other hand, has spent 10 years in retail communications at Old Navy. The event goes down on Wednesday, June 23 at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT.

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Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong will join us on Extra Crunch Live

TechCrunch

On an upcoming episode of Extra Crunch Live , we’ll sit down with Emergence’s Lotti Siniscalco and Retail Zipline’s Melissa Wong to discuss all that and more. Melissa Wong, on the other hand, has spent 10 years in retail communications at Old Navy. The event goes down on Wednesday, June 23 at 3 p.m. ET/noon PT.

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