ExploringFashion’s High-Tech Horizon:
Key Insights from the Style3D x Beyond Form Podcast
By: Style3D Updated on: 6 Dec 2023
As a pioneer in digital fashion technology, Style3D recently teamed up with Beyond Form, a fashion tech venture studio, for an intriguing podcast exploring the leading edge of life like 3D clothing simulation and virtual garment applications.
Featuring an in-depth discussion between BeyondForm’s founder and our own Chief Scientist, Dr. Huamin Wang, this collaboration offered an insider’s lens into Style3D’s technical capabilities and future-forward R&D, defining the new era of immersive digital fashion.
By shedding light on our physics-based simulation engine and AI research pursuing uncompromising realism for virtual fabrics and garments, as well as the tremendous opportunities still ahead in digitizing today’s fashion ecosystem, it highlighted Style3D's commitment to revolutionizing how brands leverage technology across the product lifecycle.
Key Insights
Some thought-provoking perspectives shared during the conversation included:
• The extreme computational complexity required to simulate the dynamic physical properties and intricate mechanics of real-world fabrics and drapes. Powerful GPU infrastructure is game-changing, yet still just scratching the surface.
• How digital garments will funnel into groundbreaking applications - from personalized e-commerce to the metaverse - vastly expanding value creation. But software is merely the foundation.
• The metaverse's broad embrace of virtual fashion reflecting real-world apparel preferences will demand even smarter simulation, customization, and interaction - a vision Style3D is already realizing for early movers.
• That while physical accuracy benchmarks are paramount today, brands must also rethink digital's unique design aesthetics and creative boundaries that can surpass constraints of atoms, not bits.
As the talk goes on, it becomes clearer what technological advances are being made right now that will make digital apparel look exactly like real garments, and it also hints at the bigger changes that are still to come.
You can listen to the whole podcast talk below to find out more.
Speaker Information
Peter Jeun Ho
Peter Jeun Ho pioneers fashion tech with Beyond Form, a venture studio creating startups with ambitious founders. Holding an MA in Digital Fashion from London College of Fashion, he collaborates with tech companies to conceptualize, execute, and deploy fashion tech solutions.
Huamin Wang
The Chief Scientist at Style3D (linctex.com) and Director of Style3D Research. Formerly a tenured associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University (2011 – 2021) and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (2009 – 2011), his primary research focuses on physics-based simulation. With an emphasis on fast and realistic simulation of digital clothing by GPUs and AI, he has authored 50+ papers at top computer graphics venues, including 30+ at ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGGRAPH Asia.