A Cloud Service Framework for Virtual Try-on of Footwear in Augmented Reality Available to Purchase

This paper presents a cloud service framework for design evaluation of personalized footwear in augmented reality (AR) via networks. The service allows users to ubiquitously perceive themselves trying on 3D shoe models in a video stream. They upload a clip of feet motion recorded by a commercial depth camera to the cloud. A new clip is generated to display the try-on process and made available to specified receivers via video streaming on a mobile device. The framework design emphasizes making most use of open-source software and off-the-shelf technologies commercially available. A prototyping cloud system implementing the framework demonstrates the practical value of virtual footwear try-on as AR as a Service (ARaaS). This research realizes the idea of human-centric design evaluation in modern e-commerce. The cloud framework may provide a feasible solution to improve the usability for real-time applications of augmented reality.