"[TC]2 , Textile Clothing technology Corporation: 3D Body Scanning Technologies

The mission of TC2  is to elevate the level of technology, manufacturing systems, and business processes employed in the global soft goods industry through research and development, education, training, and outreach.  [TC]2 is a provider of direct and indirect technology products and services to industry.

Their Web site offers information on multiple types of body scanners for the global soft goods industry. 3D body scanning is just one research area of [TC]2.

Some end uses for 3D body scanning are: • Health/medical and fitness management • Body shape analysis • Sizing surveys • 3D product development for fashionable and functional apparel • Made-to-measure clothing •  Clothing size and style recommendation • Virtual Fashion

An overview of some of the technologies used in the apparel industry are referenced in this article titled, “Sewn Product Technology.” by Kerry King Director of Product Development and Sustainability Initiatives at [TC]2 , Textile Clothing technology Corporation. According to Sally Aitkin on her Exploring the World of Sustainable Fashion blog article titled ” Innovative Technology–3D Body Scanning.

” The first two scanners were deployed by Levi Strauss and North Carolina State College of Textiles.  They had a footprint of 180 square feet and had a price tag of $200,000.”

The price has been reduced dramatically since then and continues to drop. The current [TC]2 version of the Image Twin full body scanner uses white light and has a 4′ by 5′ footprint and scans in 6 seconds.

Image Twin Full Body Scanner

The  [TC]2 KX-16  [laser] is similar to the [TC]2 NX-16 body scanner [white light] we have at Buffalo State college. We have it linked to the OptiTex application and we can easily create customized body scanned avatars to use directly in the OptiTex garment pattern application. Here is a link to the post: Body Scanning and OptiTex

[TC]²’s scanning technology scans the whole body in seconds and rapidly produces a true-to-scale 3D body model.  The measurement extraction software package features capabilities for Virtual Fashion visualization with links to 3D garment pattern making applications from major industry CAD packages. Just a few end-uses for body scanning are at the beginning of this post. Link to a recent Textile World article: [TC]2 Introduces KX-16 Body Scanner

An email quote from David Brunner [dbruner@tc2.com] Vice-President, Technology Development at [TC]2 states:

Our “16 depth sensor” machine the KX-16  though is overall equal to full body scanners like our own NX-16 or laser scanners, and supports hundreds of measurements with better than 1/4″ accuracy.  In fact, it is better on 8 of 10 technical points of comparison (3X more data, scan any color garment or skin, good hair coverage, faster scan, etc).   It is only $10,000 (portable) or $12,500 in the booth version.  I have attached a picture of the portable version just taken at an installation in Portugal (it can scan in open air with no problems).  The booth version is much like the NX-16 booth.

TC2 Image Twin Single Windows Kinect Body Scanner

TC2 Image Twin Single Windows Kinect Body Scanner Accurate human avatars for all applications including size selection advice, virtual fashion and weight loss visualization. Retail uses for Kinect – to create your own personal avatar including face for size selection, virtual fashion [try-on], and weight loss simulation end uses for home, Web-based, retail or smart phone use.  TC2 Kinect

TC2 offers Virtual Fashion System and V-Dresser: Web-based and Smart Phone Virtual Fashion

One of the unique and best features about this [TC]2 mobile smart phone system is that the user can either input manual measurements, upload a body shape scan from a home based Single Windows Kinect set-up, or upload your actual bodyscanner data from your own scanner or from a registered partner scanner! This is really great. It would really be great to be linked to the Me-Ality scanners that are being installed across North America or any other publicly placed bodyscaners.

 [TC]2′s Virtual Fashion System  - makes lifelike natural pose avatars and can show them with clothing, and can predict sizes or provide custom clothing specficiations.  The TC2 system can utilize 3D clothing generated from V-Dresser, CLO3D/Marvelous Designer, OptiTex, Lectra, Maya, etc etc etc.

V-Dresser - TC2 is the world-wide distributor for V-Dresser. Leveraging recently released low cost scanning devices for home use, [TC]² has combined that low cost power and availability with its Size Selection, Avatar Creation, Virtual Fashion, and Weight Loss Visualization technologies developed over the years for use with high-accuracy 3D full body scans. The result is an extremely high value-low cost solution for retail, at-home, and web-enabled smart phone applications.

For more information on personal avatar creation email avatars@imagetwin.com

 Portable Body Scanning: Spacevision Cartesia

[TC]2 offers Spacevision Cartesia the first portable body scanning system. Space Vision Incorporated is a venture company based on the results of research undertaken at Nagoya Institute of Technology and Keio University. Julia Haselhorst, strategic manager of The Textile & Fashion Hub stated that The Council of Textile & Fashion Industries of Australia (TFIA) Textile & Fashion Hub has the Spacevision Cartesia, which uses software from TC2.

“It is much lighter, more portable, accurate and price accessible than many of the other scanners on the market.”

It is light, portable and can be set up in 15 minutes. It can scan a body shape in 2 seconds.

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