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AXIS Full-Body Controller Makes Motion Capture Easy

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Refract Technologies’ easy-to-use full-body tracking system can be used for VR, gaming, and animation. Singapore-based technology company Refract is working to bring motion capture to everyone, regardless of your experience with technology. Image Credit: Refract Technologies.

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Report: Apple Acquires Motion Capture Firm IKinema

Road to VR

According to a MacRumor report and regulatory filings with the UK government, Apple may have quietly acquired UK-based motion capture firm IKinema. At the time of this writing, the company’s site has been reduced to support documentation for their various software products.

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Sony Reveals New Lightweight Motion Trackers For VR

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Sony will also release an SDK that will allow you to import your motion capture data into 3D animation programs. Now Sony is back with another game-changing portable, the Mocopi motion capture system. The lightweight design of the Mocopi suggests that Sony focused on making this technology portable. Probably not.

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StretchSense built an actually comfortable hand-motion capture glove

TechCrunch VR

New Zealand-based StretchSense, a maker of hand motion capture technology, believes virtual and augmented reality are going to replace the smartphone as the dominant way we interact with digital worlds and each other. And it’s based on technology that just doesn’t naturally conform to the body.”

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MOCOPI- Motion Capture will allow creators to leverage avatar for storytelling

XROM

Mocopi is a motion capture system that will allow creators to perform full body tracking in 3D anywhere by simply attaching the 6 small sensors [link] Sony has launched an interesting product called Mocopi , consisting of six motion-tracking bands worn on your hands, feet, back and head, with a price of 49,500 yen (about $358).

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AWE 2022 Day Two: The Floor Opens. Talks on Interoperability, Hardware, and Software

ARPost

However, Meskill also had a lot to say about the software, including one potentially unforeseen change. The glove is capable of intricate motion capture, including for use in XR applications. The other kind of theme for us is that we’re really exploring our [independent software vendor] program in collaboration with Qualcomm.”.

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Miranda: A Live Steampunk VR Opera Where You Play As Judge & Jury

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Miranda: A Steampunk VR Experience is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between LUMA , Tri-Cities Opera , Enhance VR , and Opera Omaha that blends the worlds of theater, VR, opera, and a live motion-capture for a unique experience that will have you putting on your sleuthing hat to solve a mysterious murder.