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Motus Lets Users 'Film' Within Any 3D Environment
Zothecula writes "In the creation of the film Avatar, director James Cameron invented a system called Simul-cam. It allowed him to see the video output of the cameras, in real time, but with the human actors digitally altered to look like the alien creatures whom they were playing. The system also negated the need for a huge amount of animation – every performance was captured in all its blue-skinned, pointy-eared majesty as it happened, so it didn't need to be created from scratch on a computer. Now, researchers from the University of Abertay Dundee have built on the techniques pioneered by Simul-cam to create a new system that lets users act as their own cameraperson within existing 3D environments."
My computer ran at 7mhz at the time.
No. This summary is horrible. The article and the technology it references has nothing to do with real-time skinning of character models onto real humans.
What they show is basically 2 Wii remotes at the same time for more accurate movement in a video game.
Sadly, I spent all my mod-points earlier today on utterly irrelevant posts.
It has NOTHING to do with 3D as in stereoscopy (read: Avatar and similar 3D movies) it is instead just yet another control system for 3D games (as in Duke Nukem 3D).
Like the parent said - it's a Wii remote. Again.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
The speaker in the video makes a grandiose claim but shows no proof - all the footage is from their own test environment. "Motus Lets Users 'Film' Within Any 3D Environment"? Gizmag should take some journalism courses.