• Start Screen: Camera screen with a Team Logo and  start button

• ‘Select the time period’ page: Allows users to pick one of three periods; 17th century to 20th century

• Clothing page: provide users a variety of clothing style in form of a slider. User chose a particular outfit and a description of that outfit is displayed to them.

• Users are able to send their pictures to email.

Just until recently, many people may not have heard about virtual reality (VR) or understand its concept. Today, virtual reality experiences are becoming more available around us. Virtual reality is simply referred to as VR, and the concept behind it reflects its name, which basically allows people to experience different realities through scenarios that are generated by computers. One of the ways this can be achieved is through a headset and a motion tracking device that gives people the sense that they are placed in a different universe with its life-like qualities. There are many other VR devices that are constantly developing, with one of the great inventions being the 3-D virtual fitting machine.

The 3D virtual fitting machine is used for people that enjoy shopping but do not actually want to try on clothes to save time. With this technology, they do not have to feel obligated to try on or physically test new clothing, hairstyle, make-up and accessories that they want to buy. The only requirement is that they simply just stand in front of this virtual machine, in the form of a mirror, and it will virtually show them how they would look with the new style. It would certainly be interesting to utilize this virtual machine as a method to virtually try on various countries’ traditional clothing or of those from different eras. This technology was first invented in 2014 by Microsoft as an application called “Try On” using a virtual mirror to try on new clothes with the swipe of the fingers.

Our group chose this technology to apply it to Long Island Museum. Visitors, from children to adults, could use this virtual mirror as a way to try on traditional or historical clothes of Long Island. People do not have to spend extra time to try on these clothes, only to change back into their normal clothes right after. Also, museum can preserve their clothing, which is both cost and time efficient.

Team Magic Mirror

• Ralph Chery, ralph.chery@stonybrook.edu, network

Magic Mirror, our team’s next-generation Augmented Reality mirror, lets users try on clothes in the past and easy-to-understand information about the past period. The cameras on the top of a full-length touchscreen (mirror) track the person’s body and shows the final fitting results on the screen.

Magic Mirror is a creative and highly effective education and entertainment tool to attract and engage users in the museum. It solves all problems of the existing ‘experience exhibition space’. It offers variety clothes that could fit to all (no age, gender, size matter) in a few seconds without limited place and space matter.