EBay’s Want Give Shoppers New Experience Using Magic Mirrors But It Will be Limited

At the new Rebecca Minkoff store in San Francisco, the mirrors come alive. Walk into the fitting room with, say, a blouse and a jacket, and the dark glass lights up with a suggested handbag to match. You can browse the racks at the upscale fashion boutique or swipe through “looks” on massive touchscreens. If you see something you like, you tap in your phone number, and you’ll get a text when it’s ready to try on.

This Rebecca Minkoff store and a partner location in New York are opening for the holidays to show off eBay’s latest tech for re-inventing in-store shopping.

Source - Wired : EBay’s Plan to Reinvent Retail Shopping With Magic Mirrors

Although an idea of magic mirror already exposed long times ago, it will give customers new experience if it is working well like a mobile gadget. But it can be very limited and attract attention for a just fleeting moment.
Fundamentally, the magic mirror can't give effective experience to your shopping rather than using a your mobile phone. Because your gadget can do everything like above movie clip using NFC or beacon. And it can more easy than the mirror because it is on your interface.
If the magic mirror want to give a shopper exceptional experience, it can be possible at the time when it can show the shape after you dress the cloth without real action and it's result should be suitable like real. Then it would be meaningful to give totally new experience.

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CNET : Oculus CEO says more products with Samsung on the way

Oculus VR founder and CEO Brendan Iribe anticipates a continual close relationship with Samsung Electronics and said more joint products were on the way.
"We'll work closely with Samsung to develop more products," Iribe said at South Korea's third annual Startup Nations Summit held in Seoul.

Source - CNET : Oculus CEO says more products with Samsung on the way

Although Gear VR is not perfect to make considerable sales, it is sufficiently meaningful as a first attempt for combining a smart phone and VR. It can be supposed that this try advances VR to become popular.

Already smartphone have a lot of sensors to realize many application, and anyone have it.
In this case, if smartphone can support VR, do anyone invest their money to buy other expensive gadget?
I believe the problems of their first combination can be supported to their next version by increasing display's resolution and refresh time and adding sensors. 

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CNET : In new ad, Microsoft insists Siri is incompetent

What good is a digital assistant if she can't tell you to leave early because of traffic reports? That's a question asked by Microsoft at any rate.


Microsoft insists that Siri hasn't improved at all, even if the iPhone has.
This is merely the latest in a series of ads in which Microsoft has looked down upon Siri like an ugly sister looks down upon Cinderella.

Source - CNET : In new ad, Microsoft insists Siri is incompetent

Although I know the method to scratch a competitor's product is very effective to spread their superiority, Microsoft's action isn't looking good.

If they have great thing like they said and it can touch consumers, they don't need to care other things.

Because consumer is smarter than they think.
Does Cortana want get worth more than Siri?

Then, She just show brilliant ability rather than ridicule don't bother others.

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