I think people might be missing a use case... It will map your exact body type and then allow you to try on clothes with AR through your phone screen.
Amazon Echo Look
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#172I think they are trying to find ways to reduce returns on clothing here. Crazy high percentages of clothing get returned... and why not? To be competitive with retail stores, online stores have to offer free shipping and returns. Try it on, if you don't like it... send it back. Very costly to the seller. Having a bot tell you, "You are pear-shaped, don't use pants with pockets..." or "This style isn't age appropriate…
I'm going with the forgiving, more capitalistic explanation and agreeing with you. This is about reducing returns on clothing. >just focus on simple rules every stylist knows Do you have a list of these simple rules somewhere? ;)
I don't have them all memorized, but you can Google. This little guide came up.
http://www.wikihow.com/Dress-for-Your-Body-Type
I had a friend once who walked me through all this while she was shopping. It was interesting to me that there could be, essentially, an algorithm to define what patterns people should use to select clothing. I remember it really wasn't all that complicated... but I'm sure it's a bit more nuanced than the first Google result explains. Anyway I'm pretty confident Amazon will get it mostly right, and be able to grow into the space from there. I think it's pretty cool they are trying this... dressing better is something we can all do. (=
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#173I'm just hoping I'm dead before it's mandatory to own one of these.
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#174Crystal ball: this is the Tesla self-driving car strategy. First deploy the hardware, then figure out the software.
In this case the real point of the depth-sensing camera hardware and machine-learning image analysis isn't hands-free selfies and robo-fashion advice. It's building a 3d model of your body to show what you would look like in different clothing, creating a clothes shopping experience that is competitive with shopping in person, and letting Amazon take on a big chunk of retail where it's not currently an appealing option.
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#175It's absolutely incredible to me that a device made to drive sales can itself be sold for $200. Furthermore, people will actually pay that much.
Perhaps to establish a "beta" period for earlier adopters, with a plan to lower the price in the future?
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#176I'm not normally one to be creeped out by these kind of things. But this is a device that's designed to take photos and videos of you while you get dressed, and will be both connected to the internet and constantly communicating those images over the network. This feels like a device literature professors would use to teach dystopian fiction writing. edit: case in point - matthewmcg's comment https://news.ycombinator…
Is it any riskier than a cell phone or laptop computer with a camera?
Yes, for several reasons.
(1) This device is absolutely sealed and opaque. It can't (easily) be analyzed to see what it's running, doing, or sending. It's even more opaque than a phone. It has enough processing power to do local image analysis, object recognition, etc., so just looking at bulk traffic won't prove anything about whether or not it's watching.
(2) The camera in this device is part of its core functionality, is always on, and is situated deliberately so as to watch you.
(3) The device is literally an Amazon sales rep in your house. Its primary purpose is to represent Amazon and sell you stuff.
I've always thought Alexa and the other cloud-connected voice-activated things were completely insane. I will never own such a thing. Period. This takes it to a whole new level of creepiness.
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#177Now when my wife asks me if a piece of clothing makes her look fat, I can safely run out of the room and declare "Ask Alexa".
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#178Related: new Alexa skill which, when your new look exceeds a certain threshold of hotness, will automatically upload the image to your Tinder profile.
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#179This looks very very strange. I can see the appeal of the regular Echo, but this..?
I would imagine the end goal is to incorporate this kind of tech[0] in the future, thus eliminating the need to in-person shop for clothes. "Depth-sensing" camera? Has to be for that..
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#180From a privacy perspective, previously you had to be worried about Alexa listening to your conversation, now you have to worry about it seeing and listening you.
I am not saying that Amazon is snooping on its users. All i am saying is that such devices are a prime target for hackers and government agencies. Recently wikileaks showed that CIA was using Samsung Smart TVs for snooping on its users[1]. Devices like this can are very attractive targets for government agencies.
[1]https://theintercept.com/2017/03/07/wikileaks-dump-shows-cia...