Vizard Live Characters
is a software plugin that enables real-time human animation and interaction in virtual space by Motionbuilder™ supported motion capture systems.

Unlike previous head and hand tracking solutions for virtual reality, Live Characters technology delivers full human presence for both first person point of view and third person points of view experiences.

It is a perfect match for the avatars of Vizard Complete Characters and Soldiers package. Live Characters requires the Vizard Enterprise edition and a full version of Motionbuilder™.

Animate and Interact Live!
Step into virtual reality — literally. Vizard Live Characters is the next generation real-time virtual interaction. By combining full-body motion capture with the powerful Vizard VR toolkit, you can inject living human beings into your virtual worlds and give them the ability to engage in interactions through a powerful scripting engine.

Advantages
End to end solution means Live Characters is a solution that covers mocap, rigging, high-quality 3D art, and the real-time render / interaction engine.

MotionBuilder™ integration provides industry standard solution for connecting to standard mocap hardware leveraging known art-flows for character editing.

Vizard powered means you have at your fingertips an industry leading virtual reality toolkit for rapid prototyping of interactive content and deploying compiled applications.

Pre-rigged Vizard Complete Characters is a library of 104 realistic human 3D characters, especially created for real-time environments like computer games, simulations and other virtual worlds

Live Characters - How does it work?

Capture motion (Polhemus shown)

Retarget the marker set

Visualize motion in real time

Polhemus & MotionBuilder - capturing motion together
Combine Polhemus tracking solutions with MotionBuilder by Autodesk, and have an integrated motion capture solution that is robust and easy to use. MotionBuilder is a 3D character animation application used throughout game, film, and virtual reality industries. Polhemus is the fastest and most accurate electromagnetic tracker available. Now you can combine the two technologies and start generating human or non-human character animations immediately.

Features:
• Real-time character animation in MotionBuilder
• Real-time Live Characters support ( Vizard add-on)
• Inverse kinematics
• Story timeline editing
• FBX format support

Hardware Requirements:
• Polhemus Liberty (wired or wireless)
• Polhemus Patriot (wired or wireless)

Software Requirements:
• MotionBuilder version 7.5 thru 2011
• Windows XP 32 and 64 bit
• Windows 7 32 and 64 bit

Northern Digital & MotionBuilder - capturing motion together
Combine Northern Digital tracking solutions with MotionBuilder by Autodesk, and you have an integrated motion capture solution that is robust and easy to use. MotionBuilder is a 3D character animation application used throughout game, film, and virtual reality industries. Northern Digital is reseARCh grade motion capture used throughout the life sciences since 1982. Now you can combine the two technologies and start generating human or non-human character animations immediately, including head trackers and game pads. Distributed, networked environments are also supported.

Features:
• Real-time character animation in MotionBuilder
• Real-time Live Characters support ( Vizard add-on)
• Inverse kinematics
• Story timeline editing
• FBX format support

Hardware Requirements:
• Northern Digital Certus
• Northern Digital 3D Investigator
• Northern Digital Polaris
• Northern Digital Optotrak

Software Requirements:
• MotionBuilder version 7.5 thru 2011
• Northern Digital First Principles
• Windows XP 32 and 64 bit
• Windows 7 32 and 64 bit

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