Shima Seiki, the Japanese company behind the world’s most advanced computerised flat knitting machines, has released a major update to its smart device app VR-knit.com.
New features include an AR (augmented reality) mode and an “ultra-realistic” knit fabric viewer which the firm says enables a richer virtual knit experience.
The new AR function allows a virtual model wearing Shima Seiki knitwear to be viewed within the user’s actual surroundings, offering an even more effective “real world” presentation of virtual knitwear. The model can be viewed from all angles, and the intensity and direction of the light source can also be adjusted and screenshots taken.
VR-knit.com was initially released in November 2017 as an app for showcasing Shima Seiki’s original knit collection as 3D images in virtual space. Knitwear can be browsed by trend theme and rotated 360°, and with the use of VR goggles, the collection can be enjoyed in 3D.
Traditionally, fashion trend collections involved prototype samples designed and produced each season worn by models at fashion events. With VR-knit.com, collections can be viewed anytime, anywhere, without limitations in time, place or opportunity.
All knitwear featured in VR-knit.com is planned, designed, and simulated using Shima Seiki’s 3D design system SDS-ONE APEX3. Such digitised knitwear is attracting attention as a tool for advancing IT in the fashion industry. Until now, it was common for apps to simply allow for viewing of fashion designs in virtual space. Now, by linking virtual designs to actual production, VR-knit.com presents what Shima Seiki calls a production model for “IT-based 21st-century manufacturing”.
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