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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."
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.