How AI virtual try-on works, why online clothes never fit, and what to actually wear. Written by the people building the try-on engine.
AI virtual try-on does not overlay a picture of a garment onto a picture of you. It generates an entirely new photograph in which you are wearing it — reconstructing fabric, drape, shadow and body shape together, because in a real photograph none of those things are separable.
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