Providing a Virtual Shopping Environment for an Item

Abstract

Techniques for providing a virtual item shopping environment are presented herein. Live video of a person walking past a display is captured using a camera. One or more items are selected from a database automatically by determining an item available for sale and selecting the item without intervention from the person. One or more data records representing one or more respective items are retrieved from a database. The items are presented on a display based on the data records representing the respective items. Presentation is performed by presenting live real-time video of the person walking past the display with an overlaid view of the item available for sale to provide an unrequested view of the item available for sale.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 capturing a live video of a person;   determining one or more dimensions of the person based on the live video;   selecting an item available for sale from a database based at least in part on the determined one or more dimensions of the person; and   presenting, on a display, a live video of the person with an overlaid view of the item available for sale.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the item available for sale comprises a shirt, blouse, dress, pants, skirt, sweater, coat, or jacket. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the item available for sale comprises jewelry. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the item available for sale comprises a wallet, a handbag, a purse, a pouch, a backpack, or a fanny-pack. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the item available for sale comprises a make-up, eye shadow, foundation, eye liner, mascara, contact lenses, glasses, a wig, or a tattoo. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the display is located in an environment that includes a physical store, and the physical store includes an inventory of items from which the item available for sale is selected. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the overlaid view of the item available for sale is adjusted based on the determined one or more dimensions of the person. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the presenting is performed using at least one additional display. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the item available for sale is selected based on a similarity to one or more items that the person is currently wearing. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising offering an option for the person to share the live video by way of a social network. 
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising displaying an option for the person to purchase the item available for sale in response to the person viewing the item available for sale for a threshold amount of time. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 1 , further comprising receiving a selection of the item available for sale from the person via a user interface. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein the selection of the item available for sale comprises a touchless gesture. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 12 , wherein the user interface comprises a user interface displayed by a client device of the person. 
     
     
         15 . A computing system comprising:
 one or more processors;   a non-transitory computer storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, perform operations comprising:
 capturing a live video of a person; 
 determining one or more dimensions of the person based on the live video; 
 selecting an item available for sale from a database based on the determined one or more dimensions; and 
 presenting, on a display, the item available for sale, the presenting comprising the live video of the person with an overlaid view of the item available for sale to provide a view of the item available for sale. 
   
     
     
         16 . The computing system of  claim 15 , wherein the overlaid view of the item available for sale is adjusted based on the determined one or more dimensions. 
     
     
         17 . The computing system of  claim 15 , wherein the display is located in an environment that includes a physical store, and the physical store includes an inventory of items from which the item available for sale is retrieved. 
     
     
         18 . The computing system of  claim 15  further comprising offering an option for the person to share the live video by way of a social network. 
     
     
         19 . A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more machines, cause the one or more machines to perform operations comprising:
 capturing a live video of a person;   determining one or more dimensions of the person based on the live video;   selecting an item available for sale from a database based on the determined one or more dimensions; and   presenting, on a display, the item available for sale, the presenting comprising the live video of the person with an overlaid view of the item available for sale to provide a view of the item available for sale.   
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of  claim 19 , further comprising displaying an option for the person to purchase the item available for sale in response to the person viewing the item available for sale for a threshold amount of time.