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Re:Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera f... by mpenn on Saturday July 26, 2014 @06:22PM (#8091028)
Realized I didn't actually explain the measurement process. You put the phone down by leaning against a wall (or chair or something else), stand ~10 feet away (so your whole body is in frame) and do 1 spin. The software takes care of the rest. The app walks you through in much more detail how to do it. You also need to be in contour fitting clothing, so it's recommended to be at home.
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Re:Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera f... by carbocation on Saturday July 26, 2014 @06:58PM (#8091143)
Any reason to have it that way rather than shirtless? (My guess is that shirtless would be more accurate, but that you guys decided the privacy tradeoff was not worth it for the minimal accuracy gain.)
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Re:Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera f... by trevyn on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:39PM (#8091286)
When you do it in the app, it does say that shirtless and briefs or boxer briefs are OK. I assume that fully nude would also be OK, but I guess they didn't want to go there. ;)
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Re:Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera f... by mpenn on Saturday July 26, 2014 @07:50PM (#8091328)
As trevyn mentioned, we have both options -- shirtless or a contour fitting shirt. We've found there's no accuracy difference.

You can't wear a normal, loose t-shirt or shirt; that unfortunately destroys our accuracy.

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Re:Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera f... by rahimnathwani on Saturday July 26, 2014 @10:33PM (#8091765)
I just tried it. The UX is truly amazing.
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Re:Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera f... by mpenn on Sunday July 27, 2014 @05:58AM (#8092363)
Thanks! We have worked really hard to make the measurement process easy to do, testing with dozens of people for months.
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