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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. Hmm by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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.

    Stop picking your nose and raise your hand if you think this will not be a major boost for pr0n industrie and adult video games?

    "oh, oh, oh, Mario, please don't stop, oh, oh, oh!"

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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. Re:Hmm by Poromenos1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Stop picking your nose WTF, how did you know that? That was uncanny!
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  2. Re:Plastic by wattrlz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, yes, but c'mon, would you really want to be recorded driving a saturn?

  3. 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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  4. Update by moogied · · Score: 2, Funny
    Update:

    Due to vigarious usage, the hand peice has to be replaced.

    Again.

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  5. Key Component, Sonic Transducer by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny

    This sonic transducer, it is I suppose some kind of audio-vibratory-physio-molecular transport device?

    -Peter

  6. 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&

  7. 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.

    1. Re:Xsense by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 2, Funny

      you can even capture things like brake dancing. I see quite enough of /that/ every time I get onto the highway.
  8. innovation by Paul_Hindt · · Score: 2, Funny

    The team have recorded people's movements in completely new locations -- like driving a car -- previously out of reach. Kick ass! Now I can finally create that machinima of Samus and Master Cheif having sex while skydiving!
  9. Other applications... by RingDev · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think this thing could be huge to professional sports.

    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.

    Heck, even just as a trainer, get your clients to strap this thing on a couple of times (especially those who aren't keen on working out in front of a mirror) to show them their form and how to improve it.

    Or combine this with pre-defined motion capture to attempt to train the wearer on how to re-enact the original motions (be it real dancing, DDR, or even 'Ninja Challenge' or what ever that Spike show is!)

    For $3k and dropping, the entry fee is so low that there are sure to be people looking make a profit off this system. I'm interested to see what all they come up with :)

    -Rick

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    1. 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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    2. 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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  10. Re:Grammar Nazi Alert by Frans+Faase · · Score: 2

    Okay, it should have been "break dancing". I felt that there was something funny about it when I wrote that, and me knowing that I am dyslectic should have made me think twice. I suppose your Dutch is as good as my English, as otherwise you would not have made fun of me.