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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. Re:Hmm by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wouldn't be too sure about that, none of the console manufacturers even allow AO games. We're quite a ways off from pr0n video games.

    Be that as it may, haven't you noticed people buying the platform for the game? If AO games are only on PC, then the players will play on PCs.

    I remember reading about people doing cyber-sex via text. I have Apple ][ magazines (Softalk, iirc) with pr0n and AO games advertised within. Can't see these people not embracing this their Wearable Motion Capture-suited overlords, can you?

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  2. GameTube. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm thinking this will do for the modding and homemade game industry what the video camera did for Youtube.

  3. Re:Other applications... by HangingChad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You could use this set up to help show athletes how to improve their form, be it in the weight room, on the golf course, ski slope, or any other place where repetitive precision movement is needed and a refinement of form could improve performance.

    You can just say "porn." We all know that's where this is going.

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  4. Re:Other applications... by ILuvRamen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    lol and by "professional sports" you mean Wii Sports :D I smell a Wii2 Wiisuit controller! w00t! Do you know how much ass that would kick to be playing a fighting game and actually have to do a spinning kick with realistic force? People would be so skinny it would be ridiculous. Either that or in the hospital lol.

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