Virtual Worlds for FashionHave you ever considered the waste that goes into fashion designing? Yards of material goes wasted after that haute couture gown is completed, and the scraps can’t be used for anything else. Well Intel and the Fashion Research Institute  are looking to change all that by using fashion-specific 3D virtual worlds which will offer a platform for designing apparel with accuracy and detail, without requiring 3D CAD tools. You will be able to recreate prototypes over and over again, thus eliminating waste of materials and this will also allow designers to collaborate and share ideas with fellow designers across the country.

In order to bring this concept into a reality, Shenlei Winkler, CEO of the Fashion Research Institute has enlisted a group of students to create a virtual runway which includes four ‘model bots.’ FRI will be providing technical fashion expertise to engineer the technical aspects, while the students will be developing their real-life collections for the model bots on the virtual runway. So soon enough, actual human models may be the thing of the past.