Check out this link for news on an upcoming cheap (US$3k) MOCAP:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12963-cheap-sensors-could-capture-your-every-move.html
Note: All I know about this is what you read in the link above.
Enjoy
Erol
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Erol Huygens
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11-28-2007 11:06
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Robustus Hax
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11-28-2007 12:04
Interesting, seems like its still a ways away
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Erol Huygens
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11-28-2007 12:14
I wouldn't look for it in your local Best Buy in time for Christmas, but if you are thinking about buying or renting MOCAP for a project it may make sense to follow this.
IMHO, US$3k is still enough money to make me think twice about using MOCAP. Then there is the effort and cost of smoothing out the captured points into something useful - that could involve a lot of money and time. Erol _____________________
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Meade Paravane
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11-28-2007 12:18
Saw this yesterday.. Seems cool but I think they're talking US$3k to build the hardware prototype - that's not a price we'd see on the street any time soon.
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Vent Sinatra
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12-01-2007 18:38
Apart from the price, I do not know what to think about using mocaps is SL. Yes there is still (a lot of) manual tweaking to do, but in my opinion there are even more important artistic considerations. The goal is not to make an animation as real as possible, the goal is to give the illusion of some movement. Like acting, this might require exaggeration, slowing down or speading up parts, etc.
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