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Amazon’s blended-reality mirror shows you wearing virtual clothes in virtual locales

Picture that hat on you at the pool, the beach, or in the city.
A diagram shows how Amazon's blended-reality mirror could put an observer into a virtual scene. (Amazon Illustration via USPTO)

How would that glitzy cocktail dress look on you when you're on the dance floor at the GeekWire Gala? Now Amazon has a patented technology for that: a blended-reality display that puts your image into a virtual scene, and puts you in a virtual version of the dress.

The magic mirror would be a step up from Amazon's Echo Look camera, which is currently being marketed on an invitation-only basis as a fashion “style assistant.”

Echo Look lets you take your picture with the assistance of Amazon's voice-commanded Alexa AI assistant, and then produces blended-reality photos that show you wearing the clothes you've picked out.

The blended-reality display, described in a patent published Tuesday, relies on a system of cameras, projectors, displays, mirrors and lights that can add layers of pixels to your moving image on a real-time basis.

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