Want to check how the clothes would look on you before you decide to buy them, all from the comfort of your home? Then try this unique mobile app.<\/p>\n
Hyderabad-based startup Trupik Virtualisation has developed this app, where one can get to virtually drape clothes on a 3D replica of himself.<\/p>\n
By feeding the body specifications, the customer can literally experience how the garment looks on him.<\/p>\n
The company claims that unlike other e-commerce sites, it does not just super-impose the photo of the garment over the person\u2019s photo and show it on the mobile.<\/p>\n
Currently available only in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, the free app service will be expanded to Bengaluru next month.<\/p>\n
Providing garment shopping with trial-room and in-store experience on mobiles, it currently serves only men and the company plans to soon offer the services for women.<\/p>\n
Since the launch in October last year, the free app which uses 3-dimensional body-mapping has registered over 25,000 people.<\/p>\n
Claiming to be offered for the first time anywhere in the world, Trupik has branded the personal assistance technology as SoFia, which stands as an acronym for \u201cSo Fashion I am\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the closest to being real experience sitting where you are while choosing your favourite garment from your favourite brand and the nearest store,\u201d Sridhar Tirumala, co-founder and CEO of Trupik, told IANS.<\/p>\n
After downloading the Trupik app, one has to feed the details like size, skin tone, choice of stores\/brands. It takes millimetre-by-millimetre measures and creates a 3D replica of the person.<\/p>\n
To get a more precise body measurement, one can visit any of the 10 brand stores that have 3D kiosks and get body scanned and then sit back at home and shop.<\/p>\n
Trupik has partnered with 16 brands like Raymond\u2019s Allen Solly, Wills Lifestyle, Indian Terrain, People, Van Heusen, Peter England, Laven and plans to add more in coming days.<\/p>\n
Established in 2013 in the Silicon Valley, Trupik Inc. by Hyderabad-based techies Sridhar Tirumala, Aravind Inupudi and Vikranth Katpally relocated to Hyderabad in 2015.<\/p>\n
Trupik is aiming to capture more premium brands and wants to expand from 45 stores in the twin cities to 2,500 stores across India.<\/p>\n
It plans to expand to Bengaluru next month and to Mumbai in May. It will have tie-up with more brands in tier-II cities in June.<\/p>\n
IANS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Picture source: Alamy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Picture used for illustrative purposes alone<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Want to check how the clothes would look on you before you decide to buy them, all from the comfort of your home? Then try this unique mobile app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}