Virtual Mirror Eyeglasses Try On Development

Since today we have a Spanish version available.
Many thanks to Carlos Posada for his translation.

There was some time at this day so I could work on Virtual Mirror…
…here you can try latest stable main English | German | Russian version.

Changelog:

• Animation added to snap shot function.
• Images of glasses can be loaded from a different server.
• Video mode saved on server can be switched off without  a web cam.
• Bug fixes.

…after more than one year and with a clear delay I have released VirtualMirror 0.6.0. For best results good light and contrast and a webcam with at least 640×480 native resolution is needed.

Changelog:

• Build against the new library VirtualMirrorDetector.swc.
• True 3d Augmented Reality using Collada file format as an option.
• Pose estimation.
• Higher precision of detection with different algorithm.
• Faster tracking of the glasses after one initial detection of face and pupils.
• Faster speed of detection on statical uploaded images.
• Initial detection on video may take some seconds.
• Centered parking position of glasses.
• Fade effect between video and photo mode.
• Re-Detection function.
• The yellow rectangles are removed (upload photo).
• Bug fixes and corrections.

In 2009 I wrote an application in ActionScript 3, Flash, called VirtualMirror. This software was designed to make it easier to sell eyeglasses over the internet. Customers can do a virtual try-on of sunglasses or eyeglasses…

On 2011 I’m about to add new user friendly features…
VirtualMirror 0.5.x uses automated detection of face, pupils and mouth to fit the glasses on the face of the customer. The required backend (ActionScriptHandler for server/client handling) was written in Perl.

I’m optician / optometrist and programmer so I have a very good knowledge to code this special piece of software…

Since today we have a RC version of VirtualMirror 0.6.0. This version uses Collada format as a new option and does render real 3D. It’s mainly a *.swc library and doesn’t depend on any design. The biggest thing was to make it fast enough, using the flash plugin… I don’t love Adobe Flash very much in my heart, but mostly everyone has this plugin installed at present and it is available for different operating systems.

Using your webcam you can try it here immediately… should be fun…

For best results a cam with at least 640×480 native resolution, good contrast and light condition are needed.

Since last 19 years, I was a member of many open source projects Read more…

…yes this is very privat – may be it is a stupid idea to share those things here – however:

Apart from the classical music like the one of Richard Wagner I also very love songs by Isabelle Boulay.

Here is Paris -> Olympia -> 2005 -> Click on “Full Screen” to get the focus on that what will be important for the next minutes on this page…

…I got the Virtual Mirror Detection Library compiled against a different user interface.

The result is here as Virtual Hat Try On.
Thank’s to Philomena Kwok for her support.

On February 2012 I wrote some small code – using php – to embed VirtualMirror into Magento.

As an additon I wrote some php as a Magento module to provide the needed prescription form fields (for selling rx prescription eyeglasses) for Magento.

After some tests over the weekend I was able to enhance pupil recognition for statical uploaded images.

Because we have much better detection speed since version 0.6 of Virtual Mirror the solution was easy: I had to change some parameters on configuration section of the backend of Virtual Mirror, ash, (ActionScriptHandler) only.

The result is very nice

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