Motion Capture Motion capture or mocap is a technique of digitally recording movements for entertainment, sports, and medical applications.
Mocap started as a photogrametric analysis tool in biomechanics research in the 1970s and 1980s, and expanded into education, training, sports and computer animation for cinema and video games as the technology matured. A performer wears markers near each joint to identify the motion by the positions or angles between the markers. Acoustic, inertial, LED, magnetic or reflective markers, or combinations of any of these, are tracked, optimally at least two times the rate of the desired motion, to submillimeter positions. The motion capture computer software records the positions, angles, velocities, accelerations and impulses, enabling an accurate digital representation of the motion.
Mocap offers several advantages over traditional computer animation of a 3D model:
• More rapid, sometimes even real time results can be obtained.
• The amount of work does not vary with the complexity or length of the performance to the same degree when using traditional techniques.
• Complex movement and realistic physical interactions such as secondary animation, weight and exchange of forces can be more easily recreated in a physically accurate manner.
In addition to film animation and training for complex tasks, other major application areas of motion capture are biomechanics and clinical medicine. Patients move freely within a defined area, and cameras track the range of motion, gait, and several other biometric factors, and this information is streamed live into analytical software.
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The Moven motion capture suit is an easy-to-use, cost efficient system for full-body human motion capture. Moven is based on unique miniature inertial sensors, biomechanical models and sensor fusion algorithms.
 Moven does not need external cameras, emitters or markers. It can thus be used outdoors as well as indoors, there are no restrictions for lighting, it does not suffer from problems of occlusion or missing markers. In addition, unique for inertial motion capture technology: the sensor-suit captures any type of movement, including running, jumping, crawling and cartwheels.
Ease-of-use
• No limitation in measurement range (up to 150 m / 500 ft wireless)
• Use anywhere: outdoor, in your office, no lab required
• No occlusion or line-of-sight restrictions
• No data cleaning, filtering or post-processing needed
• Portable and can be worn under normal clothing
• Very short setup time Fidelity and immunity
• Highly sensitive MEMS inertial sensors capture every twitch and deliver incredibly smooth data
• Use under any lighting condition
• No sensitivity to EM-fields Weblink: www.moven.com |
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 The MotionMonitor is a real-time 3D motion capture system designed for use in medical research; physical therapy clinics; sports medicine labs; motor control, balance, neurological, and gait studies; golf, tennis and baseball instruction: and, other situations where precise measurements of the body and its movement through time are required. Passive video from Motion Analysis Corporation and Qualysis, AB; eye tracking with the Eyelink II from SR Research; haptics from Sensable Technology's PHANToM devices integrated with 3-D Immersive Displays from SenseGraphics are now available only with The MotionMonitor.
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