Fittingbox: augmented reality will work even when wearing glasses

Anicet Mbida 06:54, January 18, 2022

We know augmented reality to virtually try on eyeglass frames on your phone, the frame is displayed superimposed on your face.

This will now work even when wearing glasses.

It's quite stupid, but to know the look you would have with new glasses, you must already wear your own.

Otherwise, we see ourselves blurred!

But so far, all the applications allowing you to try on glasses, require you to remove your glasses before you can try the new ones virtually.

The French engineers at Fittingbox have developed a technique that manages to remove the physical glasses and replace them with virtual glasses.

So keep your glasses on.

The camera on the front of his phone films our face.

And a program replaces the glasses you wear with the glasses you want to try on.

Is it an application that is already available?

Yes, but not for the general public.

It is mainly aimed at opticians and eyewear stores who want to improve their virtual fitting systems.

The technique works with glasses, but we can already imagine it in other sectors.

For example, for the hairstyle or the make-up: rather than contenting oneself with covering the image with a virtual hairpiece, we would start by removing what gets in the way before superimposing what we want.

We could therefore see ourselves bald when we have long hair or test different styles and thicknesses of eyebrows without having to tweeze our own.

Could it work to virtually try on clothes at home?

This is the Holy Grail of this technology.

There are already systems that superimpose clothes on our figure.

But for it to work, it is first necessary to put on a bathing suit or have an outfit very close to the body.

But it is obviously easier to erase glasses and redraw what is underneath than to do it with clothes.

And if we succeed, it could open the door to all sorts of excesses that I let you imagine.