Desktop Motion Capture ($249)

#1

http://www.naturalpoint.com/optitrack/index.html

Has anyone seen this advertisment? It certainly is cheep enough but I believe you need to program a front end for it to work with MotionBuilder or Life Forms. Hummmm…looks interesting!

#2

[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Investigating further I find that you will indeed have to write the program to record and use the data this produces. This is a major problem or could be a major opportunity depending on how you look at things. If you were a programmer and could write a front end to get the data into Life Forms or Motionbuilder you would have produced a much needed program and can cash in on it. For somebody like myself this product is useless, even thought very cheep, until someone does this and markets it. I’m sure the market would be huge for a low cost personal motion capture device.

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Hummmmmm…I think I’m going to pick up that QBacsic book again and start learning…this could be that million dollar product I was looking for…now where did I put that book…

#3

I’d be interested in seeing how good the capture data is. If the cameras don’t have a high enough resolution they won’t be able to pick up the markers over a certain distance. That’ll be a real issue because it’ll mean you’ll be restricted to a very small capture area, which means you won’t be able to do alot of motions. Walks and run’s will be especially difficult if you’re not using a treadmill.

#4

In their forums, there’s some delphi code:
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#5

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