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22: Virtual Fitting Rooms, Dark Mode, Brookstone & Ferrets Suck

Episode 22

This episode dives into Virtual Fitting Rooms. What they are, how they work, Virtual Realty (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) use cases, benefits for both retailers and consumers, our first jobs as teenagers, body scanning, AI powered clothing suggestions, data of different age ranges and how they shop for clothing (online vs in-store), Bitmojis and Rent the Runway starting at (38:50). But first,

  • IKEA highlights from Nafis' first time there (3:08)
  • A refresher on a glizzies (5:22)
  • Returning Amazon items, like Halloween costumes, when you are done with them (7:16)
  • Nafis (aka The Dark Mode Nazi) is back with stats about how popular the dark mode is (10:50)
  • Amazon is now allowing users to pay with Venmo (15:52)
  • Facebook planning to open physical stores to sell their Metaverse relates devices (18:15)
  • Anonymous Listener #3 flexes her Oculus VR Headset (18:50)
  • Reminiscing the good old days at  Brookstone stores, we find out if they are still operating in 2021, the Frog-O-Sphere controversy and the moving ferret aka weasel balls (20:35)
  • Charlie goes off on Ferrets as pets with his hot take, while Nafis hates birds as pets and Anonymous Listener #3's family had an indoor domesticated iguana as a pet (25:05)
  • Elon Musk polling on Twitter if he should sell 10% of his Tesla Stock (worth $21 Billion) and abiding by the results (33:35)
  • More importantly, Nafis shares that Grimes and Elon Musk have broke up (36:28)

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