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A Ring for Every Finger

Fastidious jewellery-shoppers weary of searching for the perfect ring will relish a locally-developed, virtual-reality solution that allows them to "try on" hundreds of rings in minutes – without so much as lifting a finger.

A virtual hand wearing a virtual, designable ring
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Try-On is a clever, interactive, easy-to-use accessory for jewellery-shop operators, and it's best described as a happy marriage between a sophisticated 3-D scanner and a database of high-resolution images of rings. The relatively compact technology scans a customer's hand and displays the image on a high-definition touch-screen. The customer selects rings from the library to "slip" on to any finger of the scanned hand.