VRScout

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

To create their digital variants, the band’s creative team turned to the same motion capture technology used in big Hollywood films like Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. The motion capture suits were so cool that the members of ABBA decided to use a photo of themselves in their suits as their most recent press photo.

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2020

In a Gamasutra post , the creators speak a little about the game’s traditional facial and motion capture of live actors. “On the shoot, we had to track data very, very carefully: the project amounts to an unprecedented 2,240,000 frames of character data in Motion Builder.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2023

On Quest 3, Meta says it will be able to use inside-out sensor data to optically track wrists, elbows, shoulders, and torso—or something the company is calling ‘Inside Out Body Tracking’ (IOBT). Announced at Connect 2023 late last week, Meta showed off some new features coming both to Quest 3 and the rest of the Quest platform.

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VRScout

JULY 26, 2021

From volumetric video to AI-powered motion capture , here’s how immersive tech is changing the most historic sporting event on the planet. ” The system works by capturing 3D video data referred to as “voxels” using 38 high-end cameras placed strategically throughout each venue. .”

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VRScout

JUNE 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Bath in Somerset, United Kingdom, have partnered with Cambridge-based game studio Ninja Theory ( Hellblade VR, DmC: Devil May Cry, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West ) to deliver more realistic, data-driven sword fighting in VR.

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ARPost

JANUARY 26, 2021

You can make a digital twin of the chachke on your desk with a mobile phone and a couple of minutes but creating “city-scale” digital twins requires huge amounts of data. Google is working on “world-scale” AR, in part using satellite data and mobile device location data that they already have access to.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2021

During last week’s WWDC , the company flexed its AR muscles even further with the reveal of AR navigation for Apple Maps, an easy-to-use 3D modeling tool called RealityKit Object Capture , and ARKit 5 with improved face tracking and motion capture.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

To do this, Apple says its new depth frameworks in iPadOS combines depth points measured by the LiDAR scanner, data from both cameras and motion sensors, and on-device computer vision algorithms via its A12Z Bionic chip. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Acquires Motion Capture Firm IKinema.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Motion Capture software, or “Mocap systems”, are particularly valuable for content creators looking to enhance XR experiences with realistic avatars, motion, and gesture controls. Mocap solutions are primarily used for the creation of XR content.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2023

At the time, Zuckerberg showed off his on-stage avatar jumping and kicking , although it was revealed later this was actually created using some fairly common external motion capture tech.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2022

Manus has been building motion gloves for use in real-time VR and motion capture for years now, with prior offerings being based on IMU and flex-sensor tracking. Though priced for enterprise use, the company says it one day hopes to deliver the tech to consumers.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Since then, Epic Games has focused on streamlining its process and, in doing so, have created MetaHuman Creator , a cloud-streamed app that lets you create your own realistic avatar that is fully ready for animation and motion capture in less than an hour, rather than weeks or even months. Image Credit: Epic Games.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2019

HTC Vive America’s Vice President of Product and Operations, Vinay Narayan, today at GDC revealed that the company is plans to make available a lip-tracking module for the Vive Pro headset which will accurately gather data about how the user’s mouth is moving.

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VRScout

JULY 26, 2018

A group of scientist at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have come up with a technique that uses VR and a custom motion capture suit to allow users to precisely maneuver their drone using only their torso. The process of developing a data-driven, body-machine took some time.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Similar to existing VR gloves, the Teslasuit Glove also features motion capture technology and is able to track the position of each individual finger as well as the wrist. . Similar to the full-body Teslasuit, the Teslasuit Glove records and monitors a user’s biometric data using a pulse oximeter.

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Upload VR

JUNE 29, 2023

The motion data Mocopi produces can be relayed to services like VRChat as well as game tools like Unity. Sony announced the body tracking kit last year and shipped it first in Japan, claiming its "proprietary algorithm enables accurate motion capture with only six sensors."

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 15, 2019

It is, according to the company, “the world’s first highly integrated smart clothing apparel that includes haptic feedback, motion capture, climate control, and other systems”. Different poses have different effects on the muscles and skin and they wanted to be able to capture that data as well.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

PhaseSpace has been a leader in high-performance motion capture for over 20 years, providing solutions for the research, industrial, and graphic arts communities. Planet Whack was initially created for last year’s Siggraph conference as a fun way of highlighting PhaseSpace’s real-time tracking capabilities.

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ARPost

JULY 14, 2021

Through the use of immersive technologies, developers can create worlds, build visual data models, design buildings and automobiles, and take students inside the human body or at the top of Mount Everest. With an impressive background in visualization technologies, Planar is particularly excelling at LED and motion capture systems.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2017

This is done by placing performers in a motion-capture studio and recording their movements from every possible angle using multiple cameras. This volumetric data is then imported into a 3D rendering program and projected into the virtual reality experience giving the illusion of an actual human being in 3D.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Rec Room employee, Shawn Whiting, used the free social game’s download data to project Quest 2 sales could be as high as 3M since its October 2020 launch. It can be used with motion capture and animation techniques. The company brought it $911.3M in Q4 revenue and added 8M users, both up from last year.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

While unlocking your phone and embodying an AR poop emoji are fun features though, the developers at Kite & Lightning just published a video of an interesting experiment that aims to use the iPhone X as a “cheap and fast” facial motion capture camera for VR game development.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

In the first one, you can read what are the features that people that HTC interviewed were asking for a VR headset : HTC has used these data to design its new headset and accompanying software ecosystem so that to fulfill these requests. What people required the most in a new VR headset, according to a survey proposed by HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Additional features include a PICO motion tracker with 3DoF positioning for monitoring legs, arms, and other body placements for lifelike motion capturing. It will also provide data statistics, workout plans, and social workout connectivity with other users. Getting Social with Pico, TikTok. Pico’s PICO OS 5.0

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

By turning physical motion into visualized data, you are able to analyze your own notion of embodiment. Legarnisson’s approach was inspired by Somaesthetics theory , which is the notion of embodiment broken down into three branches; Analytic, Pragmatic, and Practical.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2017

The interactive experience uses Xsens motion capture data taken on shoot day to provide accurate in-game player movement, taking cues from England Rugby players’ weight, mass and average speeds to ensure their character’s movements are as realistic as possible.

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ARPost

MARCH 7, 2023

In-person hosts, producers, presenters, and an audience gathered at ZeroSpace , an XR stage and motion capture studio in Brooklyn. Their actions on the stage were volumetrically captured and displayed in The Polys’ AltspaceVR environment, similar to the launch of Microsoft Mesh.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HTC VIVE’s Ultimate Trackers will offer next-generational motion-capturing (mocap) technologies for avatars and real-time 3D (RT3D) content development. ” Furthermore, JJFX, Founder, International Dance Association , commented on the XR motion-capturing solution.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

The press release for the device quotes “pattern recognition” presumably in relation to interpreting finger tracking data in order to be used in applications proper. Noitom, just in case you didn’t know, are primarily a motion capture technology company, also behind the VR-angled Neuro Perception mocap suit.

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ARVR

AUGUST 25, 2022

We can also say that real-time data will be involved in the Metaverse as data streams and overly on top of AR. Some may consider that the future Metaverse can stream real-time data and support real-time interactions in cyberspace, changing how educators deliver their lessons. And we can say that it will be influenced by WEB 3.

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Leapmotion

JULY 12, 2018

Animate from fingers to forearms with @LeapMotion and Reallusion iClone 7 for professional motion capture animation. This week we’re excited to share a new engine integration with the professional animation community – Leap Motion and iClone 7 Motion LIVE. A quick way to switch left and right hand data.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data). If you’re not practical with HoloLens, Research Mode is that feature that lets you access low-level data from your HoloLens device. What will this mean in the long run for NVIDIA?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Motion capture can find its roots in the art of rotoscoping, a technique developed in 1915 where animators trace over motion picture footage. Motion capture takes that to the next level by using different suits and tools to record the movement of subjects for use in various forms of media on 3D models.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

Remote Controlled Efficiency : Businesses can monitor fleets for battery life, performance, and key real-time data. Teams can set up key information and WiFi, deploy updates, and efficiently swap settings across fleets of headsets. This will provide users with crucial updates to optimise headset performance and report issues.

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VRScout

JANUARY 29, 2019

Lintott continues, “ We used city-wide data supplied by Wellington City Council to create the virtual Wellington City and then added a layer of story and gamification though utilising motion capture, CG, 360 interactive video and photogrammetry.”.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

So, let’s look at the facts, the numbers and the data. Manufacturers are holding sales numbers close to their chest, and there isn’t much to ascertain from consumer data. Here’s some market data that does exist, all of which is relevant to 2016: According to Develop , 80% of consumers are unaware of VR.

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