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Virtual Fitting Room Applications

Virtual Fitting Room Applications Are Developed Best Using JavaScript?

Introduction:

The continuous innovation and development of technology have led to the creation of Virtual Fitting Room Applications. Now customers don’t have to be physically present at a store for trying out any clothing items, beauty products, and accessories. You can do it virtually through Virtual Fitting Room mobile applications.

The virtual fitting room is a technology that has revolutionized the way retailers and E-commerce businesses are offering online shopping experiences. Virtual fitting room applications are based on technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR). With these new innovative applications, buyers don’t have to leave their homes to check the size, fitting, and style of the products that they want to purchase.

Ever since the pandemic struck, in-store shopping has taken a hit. People are hesitant about going out to retail stores and trying out things themselves. Based on a survey conducted by a leading advisory group, more than half of women and men who visit the store don’t feel safe trying out clothes in the store dressing room.

Market Trends:

As lockdowns were happening globally, clothing products saw a decline of about 43% in sales. But virtual fitting room technology is changing these numbers, and retailers are slowly getting back in the business. After the Covid-19 pandemic, the demand for virtual fitting rooms is increasing drastically.

A report predicted that by 2025, the market for virtual fitting would reach the value of 6.5 Million U.S dollars. According to an industry report by Statista, the global market size for virtual fitting rooms is expected to reach over 12 Billion U.S dollars by 2028.

Many platforms and languages can be used while adopting this technology. In the following article, we will discuss why virtual fitting rooms applications are best developed with JavaScript.

In order to understand why JavaScript (js) is the best way to develop a virtual fitting room application, we need to know how the concept of virtual fitting rooms works.

How Does Virtual Fitting Room Technology Work?

The virtual fitting room works on Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Augmented Reality (AR). In the case of Augmented Reality, a person’s body is scanned with a webcam to create a 360 degree-3D model of the body. The virtual fitting room apps that work on AI utilize machine learning algorithms to create a 360 degree-3D model of a body.

Irrespective of the technology used to scan the body, post scanning, the 3D models are combined with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The RFID keeps track of the products that the buyer has added to the virtual fitting room.

Finally, the virtual fitting room technology lays the product of the user’s choice on the 360-degree 3D model of their bodies. It helps shoppers check whether the item has the proper fitting, styling and how well it suits them.

Benefits Of Virtual Fitting Rooms:

Here are benefits that virtual Fitting Room Applications can offer to retailers:

● Support online sales:

Virtual fitting room application provides an enhanced shopping experience for the customers. A research paper shows that 40 % of shoppers are willing to buy more expensive products if they experience shopping through augmented reality features. Thus, virtual fitting room applications are increasing the online sales of enterprises.

● Increase customer Retention:

The virtual fitting room applications increase the target audience’s engagement with the brands and retailers. It allows shoppers to see for themselves how the product will look on them. Therefore, customers keep on trying various items, and the retention time goes on increasing. The businesses that have used virtual fitting room applications witnessed a 5 percent boost in their retention time.

● Decrease in product Return:

One of the reasons for high returns was the wrong fitting of the product. But with virtual fitting room applications, these blunders can be avoided. After opting for this technology, a retail company reported about a 36 percent decrease in the returns rate.

Why Use JavaScript To Develop Virtual Fitting Room Applications?

JavaScript is an object-oriented programming language which helps to develop dynamic web pages and applications.

As virtual fitting room applications are based on AI and AR, JavaScript is one of the best languages you can use to develop them. From the surface, it may seem like a strange choice as most enterprises use programming languages like Python or Scala for their AI/AR-based projects.

But JavaScript has some advantages that can add more value than Python or Scala. Here are some reasons why JavaScript is the best language for developing virtual fitting rooms.

● Excellent Performance:

Millions of dollars are invested in JavaScript so that it can run fast. Modern JavaScript is more advanced and translates machine code as same as Java. This allows AI-based applications to perform better in JavaScript.  Hence virtual fitting rooms can offer a more superior user experience than Python and Scala.

● Less Development Time:

We all already know that Python has less development. The same is the case with JavaScript. But the development time for JavaScript is a little quicker. Synaptic, the neural network library of JavaScript, has various features, which gives js a bit of an edge in AI-based application development.

That doesn’t mean that Python is not good. When it comes to adopting deep learning technology, there is no competition to Python. Both languages have something unique to offer. As development times go down, the production costs also go down. Hence enterprises can save a lot by using JavaScript for developing virtual fitting rooms.

● Improved Security:

JavaScript comes with built-in security. Therefore, JavaScript prevents any attacks to the application by malicious codes.

● JS has separate library for AR Features:

JavaScript offers a library named ‘AR.js’ that can provide Augmented Reality features to any web-based application using a few lines of HTML. It is a free, open-source platform and has been used by many developers. In the GitHub repository, AR.js has more than 13,000 stars.

One of the benefits of using the AR.js framework is its cross-platform and browser compatibility. This means that the web app developed on the platform is compatible with iOS as well as Android.

The AR.js comes with different AR frameworks like A-frame, ARToolKit, and three.js, making this framework very easy for developing AR-based web applications. It offers a high performance of 60fps, even older devices, so there is no need to spend money on external hardware.

That being said, AR falls short in some instances as compared to AI. There are some rendering limitations to AR. The tracking accuracy of the Augmented Reality technology is too low, which can compromise the application’s user experience. Therefore, AI in collaboration with AR helps to avoid these glitches and make the technology more effective. The data rendering done in AI is more accurate than AR technology. It also provides better identification of body parts of the 3D model.

Final Thoughts:

From the benefits listed in the above section, you can see why JavaScript is the best choice for developing AR or AI-based web applications such as virtual fitting rooms. The language is easy to code, offers better performance, provides a framework and library for adding AR features, and is even cost-effective in many aspects

The virtual fitting rooms are not only limited to the clothing industry; they are also relevant for shoes, watches, sunglasses/ spectacles, cosmetics, and jewelry. Anything wearable and used as a styling option can be paired with virtual fitting rooms applications.

Instead of hiring developers to create a virtual fitting room, retailers and E-commerce platforms can outsource this job to a service provider with relevant industry experience and reduce the workload.

Like other businesses, if you too are looking to develop Virtual Fitting Room Applications, Mindfire Solutions can be your partner of choice. We have deep expertise in JavaScript . We have a team of highly skilled and certified software professionals, who have developed many custom solutions for our global clients over the years.

There is an interesting project we have done to develop a virtual fitting room application for an advertising and content management company with JavaScript. Click here to know more: Case study on fashion imagery solution.

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Google Puppeteer

Puppeteer : Is it time to ditch Selenium?

Google has introduced a new library based on Chromium’s dev tool protocol. The library grants high-level API to interact with chromium and handle most tasks which you can perform using Chromium dev tools. The library is implemented in node.js and is really easy to get started once you install required packages using the node package manager.

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Why Puppeteer?

Puppeteer flexes its muscle where selenium misses out. It is not just limited to interactions with the web application under test performing tasks like for e.g. interacting with dom, submitting forms, generating screenshots and pdf of web pages but also in intercepting network activity, throttling CPU and network, generating timeline trace and mocking API amongst some. The puppeteer can be easily be used to write end-to-end automation test suites with the benefit of getting a detailed timeline of the performance of all the assets (images, javascript files and so on).

Engineers can easily switch between headless and non-headless modes. While writing the automation suite, non-headless mode gives a good view of how the browser is interacting with the application under test and helps in debugging; just like in Selenium. But in production, we can execute suite in a headless mode as it reduces execution time and save resources.

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Is it really that Good?

Yes, it enjoys the goodness of async code execution. You can always perform multiple tasks simultaneously following the latest javascript async await conventions. You can test the behavior of your application under different screen sizes. The network can be throttled on demand to find out how your application will run at low internet speeds. For e.g. if you want to test the error messages in an application when a user loses internet connectivity, puppeteer can easily handle such a scenario. Mocking APIs can also be achieved with utmost ease. For instance, if you want to test your “payment completed” screen but don’t want to go through the payment gateway flow, you can easily perform it with puppeteer by mocking the API response. With a detailed performance matrix, puppeteer can easily be used for performance testing.

So what are the drawbacks?

Google puppeteer supports only Chromium and Chrome out of the box. Third party implementations are available for Firefox and Internet Explorer. But they are experimental as of now and are missing a good chunk of the firepower. The documentation available is minimal as compared to selenium.

Why should you prefer Puppeteer over Selenium?

The targeted audience is the major deciding factor. If it majorly comprises of Chrome users you should go ahead with Puppeteer. Other factors include performing automation tasks which are not possible with selenium, like testing Chrome extensions, mocking API calls and so on. Selenium follows WebDriver protocol and has been from a very long time in the market compared to puppeteer hence itis better documented compared to puppeteer.

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Conclusion

Puppeteer is a powerful library which has revolutionized the automation testing by overcoming functionalities missing in WebDriver protocol used by Selenium. Although it is still in the early stages, it promises a bright future, backed up as it is by the illustrious Chrome dev tools team.

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Blazor

Blazor : Will it slay the JavaScript/SPA Frameworks?

It has been a long time since Microsoft allowed support of .NET directly on client-side. The last attempt was with Silverlight which got famous when it launched but due to lack of support from browsers and security concerns it stopped; like what happened to Adobe Flash.

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What is BLAZOR?

Blazor is an attempt to bring .NET core to the browser directly which allows supported language like C# to run directly on the browser. Blazor allows developing Single Page Application (SPA) very quickly and by using a single language on both server and client.

Blazor allows having features similar to any other SPA framework like Routing, Template, Binding – one or two way, Rendering, etc.

The name comes by combining Browser and  MVC Razor i.e Blazor.

How does it work?

It entirely relies on WebAssembly (Wasm). Wasm was developed in 2015, to run high-level language directly on browsers. It is supported by W3C which means it is standard and could be utilized by different platform too. There are runtimes available to run C++ codes on browsers too. Since it is from W3C all latest browsers generally have the support of Wasm.

Blazor runs via Wasm but in-between there needs to be a runtime. Mono Wasm allows required .NET assemblies downloads on browser directly which runs on Mono Wasm Virtual Machine.

What are all advantages of Blazor?

  • A single roof of programming language to build client and server-side codes.
  • Wasm is generally faster than JavaScript (JS) because those are binary/compiled code. No need for parsing of scripts.
  • A typed system, a fewer scope of errors due to same. Razor, model binding, etc.
  • All sweet features of C# and .NET core: Dependency Injection (DI), delegates/events, etc.
  • Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to allow a rich experience to develop applications quickly with many provided inbuilt or plug-in supported features.
  • A fallback approach to enable Blazor to run if Wasm is not available to any browser.
    No issue of Garbage collection like all .NET platform, Mono Wasm supports it too.

Limitations of Blazor

  • Still is in the development phase, not recommended for production use.
  • Limited debugging support of Blazor codes since it runs on Wasm.
  • No way to access DOM elements has to rely on JavaScript for same.
  • The second biggest, there is not much components/control available in Blazor to have richer User Experience (UX). Like as simple as AutoSuggestion, we have to rely on JavaScript plugin for same.

Demo of Blazor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGj49kaYPEc
The source code used in demo: https://github.com/viku85/BlazorDemo

Conclusion and Future

Blazor is easy to use with minimal effort in comparison to any JS SPA framework available in the market. Since it is on .NET, there is less learning curve for people coming from the .NET environment.

A lot of changes and development is going on with Blazor, many refinements, performance improvements, feature add-ons but still not having a final version to use on production.
I believe with the support of controls like Kendo or inbuilt controls in Blazor, application development would be much quicker and feature rich.

We need to wait for the final release (if it happens) and a wide variety of supported controls which may kill JS Frameworks at least in the Microsoft development environment.

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The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author. An avid techie, Vikash enjoys sharing his thoughts on computing and technology in his personal blog.
To know more about our company, please click on Mindfire Solutions. 

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