Interactive Mirror imirror

[Canada EH]

http://imirror.nobal.ca/

 

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-company-s-high-tech-interactive-mirrors-set-to-appear-in-tommy-hilfiger-stores-1.4140519?autoPlay=true

 

I wouldn't be impressed at all, I would find it annoying to see that thing in a change room. I like to get out, and walk around, see how the jeans feel as I bend over and do leg lifts and raise my knees.

 

I dont stand in a cramped change room looking in a mirror. No no, I get out into the store, look in the mirrors out there.

 

Besides that, I dont want an experience when I shop, I get in and get out. I stay away from malls from Nov to Feb. I order Christmas gifts online.

 

Makes one wonder, if you start playing around on the imirror, then the store will know more about you. You hand them your credit card to pay, and they got your name, your address, your postal code/zip code and they use that data.

 

 

Oh and law makers and personal data, we see how that went didnt we.

 

imirror would be a major intrusion into my personal space, a total turn off for store experience!

 

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interactive mirrors set to appear in Tommy Hilfiger stores

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interactive digital mirrors that will soon be installed in retail outlets and could potentially find their way into your home in the near future.

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“We believe that in the next 20 years, if you go up to a mirror and you touch it and it doesn’t come to life and give you a digital experience in the real world, then that’s going to be really weird,” said Thomas Battle, cofounder and COO of Nobal. “What we’re doing with iMirror is we’re getting in early in this massive space that didn’t exist five years ago and starting to create these really immersive digital experiences in places like retail and hospitality, these kinds of older industries, that are looking to reinvent and reimagine themselves because the way that their customers interact with them is fundamentally changing.”

Following a successful two-year pilot with PVH Tommy Hilfiger, Battle says iMirrors will soon be deployed across all of the clothing retailer’s fleets worldwide as well as its portfolio companies including Calvin Klein. In the last six months, Nobal Technologies has also closed deals with two undisclosed major retailers and iMirrors will be placed in their stores throughout the United States and Europe.

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Thomas Battle, co-founder and COO of Nobal Technologies, tours CTV through some of the iMirror's functions

“We believe that when someone goes into a store, into a mall, in the future, they’re not going to be going there to buy a product,” explained Battle. “They’re going to be going there in order to have an experience. By going through that experience, they’re going to end up buying a product.”

“By bringing the mirrors, which are omnipresent in retail stores and hotels and malls, to life, we don’t put these ugly displays into these areas.”

The mirrors range in size from 140 cm (55 inches) to large standing kiosks and will allow customers an opportunity to efficiently browse products available in-store or online using touch or voice commands.

In addition to its retail endeavours, Battle and fellow cofounder Pieter Boekhoff have their sights set on bringing iMirrors into the entrances, closets and even the washrooms of homes.

“If you can be brushing your teeth while checking the news or watching sports highlights and then doing your hair or doing a makeup tutorial while you’re getting ready in the morning and seeing a traffic alert, that’s all way more efficient (in a mirror) than having your phone and picking it up, looking at it,” said Boekhoff.

Battle adds that an iMirror in a front entrance home could serve as a hub for retrieving messages and controlling all smart devices and a mirror in a closet could help suggest outfits and guide clothing purchases.

While some may view the introduction of smart mirrors into private areas as intrusive, the cofounders of Nobal Technologies say it’s an inevitability but they will assist lawmakers with the development of policies that will ensure personal data is protected.

 “As (smart devices) become more and more ubiquitous throughout our lives, there are going to have to be some very difficult conversations that we have with ourselves and with the companies around 'How do we store this information?' and 'What is our right to privacy?',” said Battle. “We’re going to have to put in place regulations and we’re happy to help explore that new frontier with these other major companies.”

 

 

[RollTime]

Because devices most likely loaded with sensors are a FANTASTIC idea in changing rooms.

[williamcll]

About time people bring interactive mirrors into common use.

[FPSwithaWacomTablet]

I remember building one of these as part of a fashion project at my university, running off of a RPi, monitor and OpenCV. I guess it's about time for commercial solutions to arrive.

 

 

[poochyena]

I clicked this thinking it was a mirror that put up an image of you wearing one of the items the shop sells.
I.. don't get this. What does this do that a tablet or smartphone can't do?

[Brooksie359]

14 hours ago, poochyena said:

I clicked this thinking it was a mirror that put up an image of you wearing one of the items the shop sells.
I.. don't get this. What does this do that a tablet or smartphone can't do?

Be a mirror at the same time. 

[rcmaehl]

These devices will be never updated and abused instantly.

[soldier_ph]

"The interactive Mirror inmirror" , enabling more ways snoops and perves can spy and perve on you.   /Fun by side, guys, this is a huge privacy concern !

 

 

[Arika]

Pretty sure Japan has had these for a while. 

 

Wish companies would stop calling their products i<name> unless they are actually Apple. 

 

Am I going to have to start carrying around sticky notes to put over the camera of these things in changing rooms now? 

[Jito463]

3 hours ago, Arika S said:

Am I going to have to start carrying around sticky notes to put over the camera of these things in changing rooms now? 

Better yet, paint.  Frankly, I wouldn't shop anywhere that used these in the changing rooms, and I'd tell them precisely why.  For crying out loud, I put a cover on the front facing camera of my cell phone, just because I was uncomfortable with the possibility that someone could hack into it (I don't believe someone would, just that they could).  A device like this will almost certainly be hacked.

[Lurick]

15 hours ago, Arika S said:

Wish companies would stop calling their products i<name> unless they are actually Apple.

Except Apple doesn't even own the iPhone or i(blah) trademark