How A Murder Led To "The World's Most Advanced" Body-Scanning Technology

The technology could have important applications in fashion design.

In three to five years, we might all have highly accurate 3-D digital avatars of our own bodies, with potential uses ranging from plopping our digital selves into a videogame to shopping online for bespoke suits to visualizing what we'll look like in 30 years. At least, that's according to Bill O'Farrell, CEO of Body Labs, which bills itself as "the world's most advanced 3-D body modeling platform." Body Labs announced today that it has raised $2.2 million in a seed round of funding led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from New York Angels.
You could use it to compare body shapes with matches on Match.com, to make sure that guy is as athletic and fit as he says he is.

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