How do I look? Just ask Amazon’s new fashion-selfie-focused Amazon Echo Look.
Amazon quietly unveiled the brand new voice-activated, hands-free camera on Wednesday that it is pitching as the primary “artificially intelligent style assistant.”
Like different Echo units, the Echo Look is voice-activated, powered by the Alexa digital assistant, and it does all the things the present Alexa can do, together with controlling different sensible home units and answering questions in regards to the climate, information, and your schedule.
This Alexa, although, may also management the machine’s built-in camera with, “Alexa, take a photo.” No extra standing in entrance of the mirror and taking pictures a selfie or overextending your arm to seize a picture of your shirt and skirt or pants and shirt. According to the Amazon’s video, you simply step again a few ft and inform Echo Look to take a full-length picture.
The 5-megapixel camera sits in the course of a round LED flash, and there is depth-sensing to maintain the topic in focus and allow you to blur the background for higher vogue selfies. It’s fairly low-resolution, however Amazon says they optimized the camera so pictures could be shared simply and despatched rapidly to Echo Look’s type checker.
Amazon Echo Look
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The viewfinder in your images is your smartphone, the place you see the stay view, take the snapshot or seize a brief video (additionally with voice command) so you may see your vogue selections from all sides. Naturally, you may share all these images and video.
Amazon is additionally taking the entire vogue marketing consultant factor a bit additional, integrating machine studying and AI into the system with Style Check, so you will get suggestions in your look with out turning to your companion, partner or pals.
You simply must attempt on two completely different outfits, or select from earlier outfit choices, so long as they’re within the Echo Look system, after which let the app let you know which is a higher search for you primarily based on the AI, vogue traits and, in line with Amazon, “what flatters you.”
Making vogue selections.
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How the AI can assess that final bit is unclear since magnificence is within the eye of the beholder.
Other options embrace a mic mute button, a base that mounts on a flat floor or a wall, a microphone array, and a speaker.
People already take billions of selfies each year, and the online fashion industry is exploding as nicely. This is a sensible play to place Amazon firmly on the heart of all of it, particularly since Amazon already sells a truthful quantity of vogue on its website. It’s in all probability solely a matter of time earlier than Amazon Echo Look is not solely assessing your look, however recommending model new vogue selections,
At $199.99, the Amazon Echo Look, which is at present available by invitation only, is one of many costlier Echo units. The least expensive one is the tiny, $50 Echo Dot.
