“Facebook said it acquired visual shopping and artificial intelligence startup GrokStyle in a move to bolster the social-media company’s own AI work. GrokStyle’s technology, which was integrated into Ikea’s mobile app, was simple in practice. A user takes a picture of a piece of furniture and the technology would match it to similar products that…
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How Shopgoodwill.com Authenticates Luxury Goods With AI Tech
“Goodwill uses a device that includes a high-powered magnification lens, which can be used on an iOS device to take a picture of a handbag’s material. That photo is sent to the company’s service, which does an analysis of the material using machine learning technology and gives an opinion of whether the product is authentic…
Mercari R4D Debuts AI Vision Shopping Experience Using Vuzix Blade AR Smart Glasses
“Vuzix Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technology and products, together with Mercari, Inc., under its research and development organization Mercari R4D, are pleased to announce the start of a AI vision proof of concept shopping experience for the Vuzix Blade AR Smart Glasses that strives to deliver e-commerce product information…
How to be Competitive in eCommerce (2018) – CIO Review
Image credit: cioreview.com How to be Competitive in eCommerce (2018) “Personalized Experience: The age of information overload has provided the firms with the opportunity to inform themselves about the exact desires and demands of their customers. The expectation in such an instance is that the firm will be able to create unique personalized experiences that…
ai eCommerce News: eBay launches AI-powered visual search tools
eBay launches AI-powered visual search tools “eBay is rolling out a new visual search feature that lets shoppers use a photograph to find products for sale on the site. The Image Search feature uses computer vision and deep learning to compare images that a shopper uploads to the eBay app to the images of live…