Vicon has signed an agreement to become the main motion capture (mocap) technology supplier to The Imaginarium - a London-based studio, co-founded by actor/director Andy Serkis and film producer Jonathan Cavendish. The Studio offers Performance Capture consultancy and production services to film studios, teleVision and video game companies as well as developing its own work.

Academy award winning company Vicon is supplying 80 of its cutting edge T160 motion capture cameras and new Blade software. The Imaginarium are also taking part in Vicon’s alpha project for its next major entertainment software release, due to be announced later this year.

The 16 megapixel cameras and latest software will enable The Imaginarium to deliver high quality data which, combined with the Studio's unique creative direction, will make it one of the world’s leading Performance Capture studios.

Nick Bolton, Vicon’s CEO says: "We couldn't be happier than to be collaborating with such talented people. This is much more than just a contract to supply equipment; we're working closely with The Imaginarium team on this exciting venture, which aims to become a global centre of excellence taking motion capture to a new level - technologically and creatively."

About Vicon
Academy Award®-winning Vicon is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, and match moving software. It serves customers in the CG animation industry, film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast teleVision, as well as engineering and life science industries. Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters: a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture Stages for Vicon’s service company House of Moves.

Vicon is a subsidiary of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image-understanding solutions for the Entertainment, Defense, Life Science and Engineering markets. Other holdings include: 2d3, a manufacturer of specialized image understanding software for defense applications; Yotta DCL our highways surveying business in the UK; and Yotta MVS, a leading US provider of data collection services for the assessment of property taxation.

Vicon and OMG global clients include: Life Science leaders University of Pennsylvania, the VA Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Titleist Golf, The Andrews Institute; Engineering industry leaders Ford, BMW, Airbus, Lockheed, Pratt-Whitney, NASA, Caterpillar, International Truck, and Toyota; and Entertainment companies Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Vivendi, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and many others.

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