OpenStage 2.0 by Organic Motion Shakes Up The Motion Capture Market
Somewhere or another, you have definitely seen motion capture work being done. It's usually a person in a skintight spandex suit, with what look like little ping pong balls attached to the suit at different parts of the body, in front of a bright green or blue curtain. They then record the person doing various movements, and with the help of computer programs, they isolate the person from the bright green or blue backdrop, and use the white balls to create a wireframe model that looks very much like a crude stick figure. It's a pretty common technology in games and movies that feature computer generated characters, like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movies.
But a company called Organic Motion has figured out a way to do away with all that. Their system, called OpenStage 2.0, does all of that work without the use of the skintight suits, green curtains, and white balls. Instead, they use anywhere between 8 and 24 cameras capable of recording 200 frames per second. Not too shabby for a revolutionary technology. The best part is that it can record multiple people moving at one, even with props in their hands. If you've got $40,000 to spare, feel free to try out the bottom-of-the-barrel 8-camera setup.
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Source: Engadget
