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This App Brings Personalized Augmented Reality Fashion to Your Phone

By Mike Steyels

Here's working proof that one day you'll be able to wear your digital avatar to the club. Design studio Normals has created an experimental iOS app that recognizes a custom shirt and adds augmented reality accessories. When viewed through your device, a series of geometric shapes move in real time, floating and shifting around the boxy black shirt. Called Apparel, the app is tied to data from your Twitter account and the virtual designs vary depending on your feed.

"If you use many exclamation marks, or if you're generally being authoritative, your piece's shoulders will inflate as the 'Authoritopathy' mod will accumulate that data," they tell us. "If you tweet cute things, the 'Kawaiiopathy' mod will go up and your piece will start displaying all sorts of symbols and animal heads. If you talk too much about yourself, the overall mesh of your model will take an imprint of your profile pic, and blow up in all directions using this pic as a displacement map." You can make the mods evolve in real time and watch them change as you Tweet.

The project is tied up in a world they call Trudent, a fictional place where aimless residents bicker over trivial affairs, mainly fashion. There's a video series about it, a short story, and it's even got a soundtrack you can download from Bandcamp. The plot of Trudent is a pretty scathing indictment of the fashion world, with Zoolander-type characters having runway battles, and mindless fans caught up in a social media frenzy over it all. But the app itself aims to display a user's true identity by drawing from your personality on Twitter.

All images courtesy of Normals