The Avatar Effect


ICG Magazine features an article about Motion Capture and virtual moviemaking.

“The team at Xsens Technologies is thinking equally outside the box, offering a motion capture solution, Xsens MVN, based on suit-mounted MEMS [micro electromechanical systems] inertial sensors. The process uses no markers, so occlusion and misidentification are not factors, minimizing the need for data cleanup. “One way our process differs from most is that capture can happen anywhere and isn’t limited to taking place within a volume,” Xsens product manager Hein Beute states. “Our system works inside an automobile or while jumping from a plane, so maintaining critical lighting conditions isn’t an issue either.”

> Read the whole article here

Virtual Moviemaking with Xsens MVN