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Cited: Fashion Industry Network

Intel Labs and Fashion Research Institute are working together on research that is intended to help bring the benefits of virtual worlds to a broader range of business and consumer applications. FRI, by providing decadent Saltwater House to Science Sim creations that push the envelope in terms of content creation, sharing and quality, is helping to develop OpenSim. This is a platform used by FRI’s virtual world design application used by the apparel industry, Black Dress Technology. Black Dress Technology cuts the design cycle time, costs and reduce carbon footprint by 75% of design houses.

FRI’s Black Dress Technology uses the OpenSim virtual world simulation platform, and seeks to foster open-source innovation as a means to accelerate the proliferation of virtual worlds technology. Virtual world technology provides low-cost 3D modeling capability to all designers from large houses to independent designers; Black Dress allows designers to capitalize upon their innate creativity without adding barriers . Black Dress is currently in stealth mode.

Shengri La Chamomile is an early example of the research we will be conducting with Intel Labs. Shengri La Chamomile is a complex, highly involved build, and is the largest such creation in existence so far, and reflects the unique collaboration of fashion and technology. Over the next year, FRI will be creating additional designs of this nature, each incorporating different themes and each designed for immersive fashion design education.

Their collaboration with Intel Labs is currently planned to extend for a year, during which we will study these increasingly complex, large-scale builds, as well as how to scale up and freely deliver this sort of content, which is key to the evolution of large-scale grids and mass adoption of these new technology tools.

The Fashion Research Institute, Inc. (FRI) is the nexus of emerging technology and the fashion industry. Focusing on issues as diverse as bio-renewable, sustainable multi-channel production pipelines to renovating antiquated product design methodologies, FRI leads the industry through its innovative approaches to common problems plaguing the fashion industry.

Fashion Research Institute (FRI) develops products and systems for the fashion industry that sweepingly address traditionally wasteful, environmentally unsound and unsafe business and production methods.

FRI has developed new technology infrastructures using web 3.0 and virtual worlds, that will reduce related fashion industry production landfill wastes and by-products to up to 1/3 over traditional fashion production methods. FRI’s goal is to research and develop bio-renewable, sustainable, multi-channel production pipelines for the fashion industry, which will change the way the industry handles raw materials, processed materials, product design methodology, and product tracking technology.

In addition, FRI is currently developing a method to distribute digital assets generated from its unique virtual world design application, Black Dress Design Studio. The Fashionable Grid™ enables designers of both apparel and avatar apparel to develop new revenue streams through this service.

Virtual worlds and apparel, footwear, and accessories designers: a natural fit.  Through its subsidiary, Black Dress Technology, the Fashion Research Institute has developed a virtual worlds-based design and development application, Black Dress Design Studio, for the apparel industry.

By leveraging the deep collaborative power of virtual worlds, apparel industry designers and developers save up to 60% of their sample costs, reduce their overall carbon footprint by as much as 35%, and cut their time to market by as much as 6 weeks - per collection! Additionally, because of the greater data fidelity which is achieved by using the Black Dress solution, a higher quality product can be produced, which in turn reduces waste.

The Fashion Research Institute is focused on bringing this solution to the apparel industry to support the real work of real fashion designers charged with developing on-trend, saleable, and properly fitted physical garments, footwear, and accessories.  While virtual fashion is a developing industry, there are a very great many differences between the real world apparel industry and virtual fashion.  Not least of these, of course, are the financial and ecological costs attendant in developing and manufacturing clothing for sale around the world, and the overall scope of the $1.7 trillion apparel industry.

FRI continues to work in this area, supporting Black Dress Design Studio, as well as other initiatives.

OpenSim is the primary platform upon which FRI has developed its products and services, and to that end well-tuned code is a basic requirement.  Working initially with IBM Research, FRI initiated early explorations into alpha testing of this platform through its large-scale, complex developments in OpenSim-based virtual worlds.  This initial creation was a study of how to create a compelling user experience for future work environments.

Black Dress Design Studio, FRI’s design application for the apparel industry rests on the OpenSim platform, and so the maturity of that platform is critical.  FRI believes the evolution of large-scale grids will bring that maturity and it is the compelling, rich content that will help grow these grids.  There have been many efforts in increasing the performance of the OpenSim platform, but it is the user experience of compelling content that must perform well for mass adoption to take hold.

Compelling content will drive the growth of virtual worlds grids; performance is essential to sustain that growth.  But the compelling content must be there first for the platform to host the business models to follow.

The large-scale grids that will ultimately succeed will be the beautiful ones that everyone wants to visit where the user experience is consistently good.   As part of FRI’s continuing research in this area, FRI has signed a research agreement with Intel Labs for a new research collaboration whose focus is compelling content as a target to optimize the performance of the OpenSim platform for an enhanced user experience.

Virtual worlds will play an integral part in high performance computing and imagery from FRI’s creations was exhibited as part of Super Computing 09.

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My Take: This sounds interesting! Bringing two different industries together via technology, is not that more like expanding an industry? No matter, in these tough times it is a good thing. It could even mean more jobs. However, I definitely would not want to worry about data recovery where virtual worlds are concerned. That has got to take up a lot of disk space.

It might not be so bad if they’re using a RAID system with redundancy. Although, RAID systems are typically implemented for data security reasons, RAID data recovery can be difficult depending on what system they use. Otherwise, hard drive recovery can be fairly simple.

All things considered, I think great things can come from a merging of two different industries. And I do not mean just jobs, new ideas, new processes and much more.

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