Is it possible to search stuffs inside a picture by touching it? Yes, it is!
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The modern world generate 657 billion photos per year. To put it into perspective, we take more photos every 2 minutes than ever existed in the last 150 years. This is according to the annual internet Trend report by Mary Meeker in 2014 which stated that 1.8 billion photos were uploaded online every single day of that year. In other words, our world from the digital dimension is a gigantic mass of visual information.
The problem we are trying to solve?
Nothing new, unique or fantastic. Just another aim at using AI (computer vision) for social discovery. Touchabl Pictures aims at helping to measure user engagement with photos beyond comments and likes. Thereby helping merchants better understand what their customers are actually interesting in photos and convert this interests in sales.
Touchabl will enable people search inside any picture by touching. Instead of searching by keywords, we wanted to enable search by touch and in turn grow an ecosystem of picture-loving people. User will get every experience they are already used to (like, comment, share) PLUS a new (touch-based) interaction, hence the name Touchabl.
We quietly launched Touchabl Picture app for Android. You can now actually touch things inside a picture to know what it is. For example, if you see a watch in a picture and you touched it, it will give you information about the watch... plus, it will show you pictures of other watches that looks like it.
Think about all the things you can do with this app! We don’t know how this app will add value to your everyday life -- for example, if it can help you get fashion ideas on what to wear or to know the designers your favourite celebrities is wearing, or shop for something when you don’t know the name. We also anticipate the it could be used for sharing Product Groupie by businesses (Product Groupie is a picture containing several related items).
Touchabl app is still in its early stage and we want to make it even better, and competitive enough.
So, here’s what we're asking of you. Help us test the app and provide feedback to help us improve the experience further.
Here’s the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchabl
Or go to https://www.touchabl.com
Thank you, as I look forward to your feedback (especially telling me about the things that are not working well).