No more wrong clothing sizes with ABODY.AI: The true fit size for shopping

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In today’s world it is hard to imagine ordering yourself an outfit online that perfectly fits your body. It has therefore become relatively normal to order multiple garments, only to finally find the garment of the right size. This problem comes at a price for both consumers who often time have to pay extra return costs and retailers who heavily depend on transportation; one of the leading contributors to the increasing amount of air pollution (WHO, 2012).   

An article in the Jing Daily mentioned that ABODY.AI has developed an AI-solution to tackle this challenge that the garment industry has been facing for a long time, so I decided to give it a try (Ryder, 2023.

To be able to make use of this AI tool, it is necessary to first add the ABODY.AI Chrome Extension. After adding this extension, it is both possible to connect the extension with your ABODY.AI application or input your measurements yourself.

I decided to download the application and follow all required steps to hopefully be able to find the true potential of this AI tool. As visible in the below steps you can either measure yourself or get measured by a friend.

After choosing to measure myself, it was required to take 2 pictures where I had to pose in a similar way like the models. The requirement of only 2 pictures made me question if the end -result of my measurements was going to be very accurate. This is probably compensated by the some more general information I had to fill out like gender, height, weight, and age. To improve this tool in the future, more pictures/general information should probably be required.

The results were quite spot on in terms of measurements. The only mistake I made was to wear a very tight shirt with a jogging pants that is very big and wide; Maybe I should have used this application before… After the measurements show in your application, you will be able to easily transfer the information to the chrome extension by scanning a QR code. The final picture below shows the transferred data.

ABODY.AI has partnered with big garment brands such as Adidas and Nike, who collaborate by sharing the best possible fit with the ABODY.AI users. This allows you to instantly find the right fit in terms of big brands’ jackets, pants, T-Shirts, etc. These are all categories however for which there might still be different sizes within for instance the T-Shirt category, possibly causing issues.

What takes this AI-tool to the next level, however, is the possibilities that it now offers with your Chrome extension. Since I was in need of a True Classic T-shirt, I decided to try out this extension on the Amazon website. Once the extension was activated, I received size recommendations on each and every garment I checked which were relatively accurate; quite awesome if you ask me!

Reflecting on the use of this tool, I definitely see how this AI tool could potentially lower the overall return rates and increase the shopping experience by making it more personalized, easy, and fun to shop. I do, however, believe that the tool would really have to prove itself and its accuracy in order for this tool to be widely adopted. In fact, I am not yet fully convinced myself at the moment that the tool is going to always offer me the right true fit size.

Would you order less different sizes when applying this tool? Or is there a specific garment that you would buy faster knowing an application would give you the right size recommendation based on your fit?

World Health Organization. (2012). Health in the green economy: health co-benefits of climate change mitigation-transport sector. World Health Organization.

Ryder, B. (2023). The perfect fit: AI emerges as answer to fashion’s sizing conundrum. Jing Daily, September 5.

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Video avatars at your fingertips – How HeyGen can help to express yourself creatively.

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Scrolling through LinkedIn, I recently came across a video of someone filming himself and telling a rather interesting story. It was only at the end of the video that he revealed the person in the video was not him but an AI avatar; I was shocked…simply because I had not realised. By recording yourself with your webcam for 30 seconds you can apparently create yourself an avatar that will say anything you want it to by giving it a script. Might we all interact with each other through our own-created avatars in the nearby future?

HeyGen is an AI-powered Video Generation tool that will allow each and every one of us to get access to over 100 different AI avatars, use 300 different types of voices, available in over 40 different languages, and is super easy to use (HeyGen, 2023).

Starting with HeyGen, each new user of the application gets to create one free avatar which can basically be set up in less than 5 minutes. First thing you do is to choose whether you want text or video instructions:

Next, HeyGen will ask you to upload your footage which is recommended to be a 2-minute video of high resolution in order to create the best possible AI avatar.

Finally, the fun part starts when you can give your avatar a name, decide on the view mode, and choose yourself a face together with a voice of your liking.

Personally, I found it very easy to go through all necessary steps and set up my first avatar. Looking into my very own first avatar creation, I start to wander what impact this will have on society in the future. Presently being able to speak only Dutch, English, German, and French, a tool like HeyGen will give me the possibility to upload a video and have it sound like I can suddenly speak 40 languages fluently: quite impressive right?

Next to having a lot of different languages at your fingertips, it will also give you access to an extensive library of voices. Thus, HeyGen will allow you to not only convert your presentation to a different language, but also gives you the possibility to choose the most suitable voice to narrate your story (RTL Niews, 2023).

From my own perspective, I believe AI tools like HeyGen will impact business practises in a way where they are able to reach wider audiences, cutting through a language barrier, and allowing businesses create creative content in a relatively short time. How do you think similar tools like this will be leveraged by companies in the future?

HeyGen. (2023). About us. Retrieved from HeyGen.com: https://www.heygen.com/

RTL Niews. (2023, September 16). Met deze AI-tool spreek jij ineens vloeiend Spaans of Arabisch. Retrieved from RTL Nieuws Tech: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/video/video/5407976/met-deze-ai-tool-spreek-jij-ineens-vloeiend-spaans-arabisch

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