Motion capture

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  Confronting ‘Enemies’ in VR

  A combination of technology, science and journalism, THE ENEMY VR experience deviates from traditional media depictions of long-standing conflicts and humanizes the opposing combatants. Participants come face-to-face with representatives from each side, brought together virtually to explain their backgrounds, personal beliefs and hopes for the fu…

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  Planar Systems Agrees to Acquire NaturalPoint, Bringing Combined Leadership to Growth Markets of A…

  The acquisition brings together leaders in complementary technologies to increase attention on the high growth and strategic opportunities in augmented and virtual reality and in other market segments like CAVEs, drone tracking, movement sciences, sports performance, computer visualization and animation.

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  The Third Floor Taps OptiTrack Tech in Previs and Virtual Production Workflow

  “We do a lot of live streaming into MotionBuilder. It’s immensely helpful to be able to see our characters driven live in our previs environments during a mocap session. We know more or less what the shot is going to look like before our previs artists start animating on top of the data,” added Evelyn Cover, The Third Floor’s Virtual Producti…

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  CBS Digital Builds Core Pipeline Around OptiTrack Technology

  “This Is Us,” Fox’s “Last Man On Earth” and Netflix’s “G.L.O.W.” They also played a part in Netflix’s first foray into VR, a creepy trip inside hit series “Stranger Things.” Throughout varied endeavors, optical tracking remains a constant in CBS Digital’s workflow, primarily for creating room-scale VR experiences and virtual production.

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  OptiTrack Introduces Active VR Tracking at GDC 2017

  This advancement enables greatly simplified manufacturing and deployment efforts for large-scale, multi-user VR experiences. OptiTrack Active will be showcased using Oculus HMDs, Striker VR weapons, and MSI VR One Backpack PCs in the OptiTrack booth (#2002, South Hall) at the 2017 Game Developers Conference, held at the Moscone Center in San Fran…

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