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Wearable Motion Capture

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the all-your-motion-are-belong-to-us dept.

AnonymousHack writes "Swiss and MIT researchers have developed a wearable kit that will capture your every move for mapping onto a virtual character. It's almost as accurate as the camera-based motion capture used in studios to develop games. The team have recorded people's movements in completely new locations — like driving a car — previously out of reach. There is even a video of it in action."

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  1. SIGGRAPH by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Informative

    Details of the project were presented at SIGGRAPH, a computer graphics and interactive technologies conference held in San Diego, California, US, in August. I know that lots of cool stuff gets shown @ SIGGRAPH... but 3 months is quite a bit of lag, even for slashdot.

    Maybe someone who went can dig out their conference DVD and put up the presentation somewhere.
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  2. Just like intersense! by HEbGb · · Score: 5, Informative

    This very product has been on the market for years, by Intersense, which also uses accelerometers augmented with ultrasound to prevent drift. It looks like MIT just copied them.

    This isn't really new.

    http://www.isense.com/products.aspx?id=43&

  3. Xsense by Frans+Faase · · Score: 3, Informative

    Everyday, I bike along a company called Xsense here in Enschede, the Netherlands, which is selling a similar system called Moven as described here as a commercial product.