Even if you have model-like proportions, trying on clothes can be an irritating and stressful activity. Pushy salespeople and annoying fellow shoppers tend to put a damper on the whole experience. A California company called FaceCake has just made trying on clothes a lot more fun by letting you do it from the privacy of your own home, video-game style.

Using a setup built around the Microsoft Kinect and a live webcam feed, the Swivel system projects the user’s image onto his or her own screen. The available product categories appear in lists on the sides of the screen so customers can use hand gestures to select products that interest them.

The clothing, accessories and jewelry are digitally overlaid on the image of the customer. The items would fit realistically, taking the customer’s body shape into account. Shoppers can even turn around to see how clothes would look from the sides and change the on-screen background to see how the look would work in the real world.

Swivel will make recommendations on outfits and even let shoppers take snapshots of different looks to send to friends and family – because what guy doesn’t want to get a bunch of pictures of his girlfriend in 30 different virtual outfits?

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Augmented reality is truly awesome, but unfortunately it hasn’t found a wealth of practical applications just yet. That is, until now. In cooperation with Swedish “wearable magazine” T-post, offbeat designer Marc Stromberg created a t-shirt that allows wearers to play a virtual game of rock paper scissors with an animated hand coming straight out of their chests.

All you need to do is put on the shirt, then go to the game page and make sure your webcam is turned on. Your image will appear on the screen, along with the creepy animated hand that will challenge you to what will probably be the weirdest game of rock paper scissors you’ll ever play. Of course, if you don’t have the t-shirt you can print out a PDF file that will achieve the same thing…but that does seem slightly less fun.

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