---
title: "Amazon Will Give You a $25 Gift Card to 3D Scan Your Entire Body"
description: "Amazon says that it wants access to images of more diverse body types so it can improve its 3D model-rendering technology."
date: "2019-05-22"
modified: "2019-05-22"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/amazon-3d-scan-body"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "Amazon"
  - "computer vision"
  - "the digest"
---

# Amazon Will Give You a $25 Gift Card to 3D Scan Your Entire Body

![Amazon says that it wants access to images of more diverse body types so it can improve its 3D model-rendering technology.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/amazon-gift-card-3d-scan-body.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Shutterstock/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Body Scans

Amazon wants to buy your bikini pictures, and it's willing to give you $25 in store credit for the trouble.

At least, that's according to an Amazon program that a *[Mashable ](<https://mashable.com/article/amazon-body-labs-image-scanning-study/>)*[employee](<https://mashable.com/article/amazon-body-labs-image-scanning-study/>) came across in the form of a targeted ad saying the tech giant is recruiting people to sign up for a 3D full-body scan — form-fitting clothing preferred — that will be used for "internal product research."

## Hush Hush

Participants are required to sign a non-disclosure agreement that prevents them from discussing the scan or the project at large. But *Mashable* reports that the online retail giant is working with a company it acquired called Body Labs that uses artificial intelligence to create realistic 3D renderings of people based on a 2D image.

The idea behind the scans is to give Amazon and Body Labs' software a more comprehensive array of diverse body types to sample, according to the [online signup form](<https://amazonbodylabs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8CzQQOcugen9xVb>).

## Unresolved Questions

The research could lead to more realistic and diverse CGI models for people sampling clothes online, but Body Labs originally used computer vision technology to collaborate with [law enforcement groups](<https://futurism.com/cops-amazon-facial-recognition>), *Mashable* reports.

Because of the NDA built into this privately-funded research, we may not know what it's used for until someone reports back.

**READ MORE:** [Amazon is 3D-scanning people's bodies in exchange for gift cards](<https://mashable.com/article/amazon-body-labs-image-scanning-study/>) \[*Mashable*\]

**More on Amazon:** *[Police Are Using Facial Recognition Tech on Unconscious Suspects](<https://futurism.com/police-facial-recognition-unconscious-suspects>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

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