Walmart will acquire virtual fitting-room platform Zeekit
advertisement advertisement Walmart has announced it’s acquiring the Israeli-based, female-founded startup Zeekit. The reason? As more people have turned to online shopping for clothing (thanks, pandemic), a pain point of that experience has become annoyingly obvious: It sucks buying clothes online because you never know if they will fit right or look as good on you as they look in the pictures on your screen. advertisement That’s where Zeekit’s virtual fitting room technology comes in. Zeekit’s platform uses computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies to map the selected...