Wearable Motion Capture

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."

Comments

Hmm

[ackthpt]

"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!"

Re:Hmm

[Poromenos1]

Stop picking your nose WTF, how did you know that? That was uncanny!

Re:Plastic

[wattrlz]

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

SIGGRAPH

[TubeSteak]

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.

Key Component, Sonic Transducer

[pete-classic]

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

-Peter

Just like intersense!

[HEbGb]

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&

Xsense

[Frans Faase]

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.

Other applications...

[RingDev]

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