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Mechanical MoCap

Mechanical motion capture does not use cameras. Instead, a network of sensors is placed on all the body parts of the user. These sensors work by detecting the relative motion of each joint, and one sensor system is applied to every joint on the body. They function like a web, directing data, usually wirelessly, to a central computer system which builds up a map of changes in bodily position on a real-time basis.

Advantages of this system are of course the low footprint ? no need to set up a room especially. They do have a major downside, however. Because of the need to accurately measure every joint, they tend to be built into a rigid framework which wraps to the user like an exoskeleton. This adds weight and a certain inelegance to the user?s movements.

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Swift MoCap Sequence Retrieval
A better way has been developed for premade MoCap summoning. A method that uses general limb movements to call up the closest matching MoCap file.



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MoCap for Movement Analysis
Promising work by QuinteQ on real-time motion capture without excessive hardware, holds promise for MoCap use in public VR.



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Large Image Display: Simone: Mocap Animation Differences
In Lessons from Simone: MoCap Filter , it was discussed how Simone whilst yes she was controlled by Victor?s body movements in a MoCap system, never quite copied those movements perfectly. Whereas Viktor's movements are not always feminine, Simone moves with a permanent feminine grace.



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Combining MoCap and Gesture Recognition
MoCap - Motion Capture - for all its impressive abilities, has definite limitations in terms of sensory fidelity, the expense and bulk of the rig. Gesture control is cheap and captures every little movement, but easily overwhelmed. Is a hybrid system possible?



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Lessons from Simone: MoCap Filter
Simone is a seminal virtual reality film, and there are several aspects of both the technology of VR and the social impact, which the film carries off very well, and which deserve to stand on their own merits. The MoCap filter the film alludes to, is one such aspect.











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Trust and Computing: Trust Higher when Machines Appear Human
A study on the other end of the uncanny valley to usual approaches - on how humanising interfaces is always going to be beneficial versus mechanical-seeming interfaces, because the illusion of humanity engenders trust.



 

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(08/03/2009)
Researchers from the University of Tokyo created a real time system to visualize how much individual skeletal muscles are being used during an exertion.

The study has obvious implications for MoCap refinement, and kinaestheti...


(30/12/2009)
Tiny devices made possible by combining the latest advances in mechanical and electronics technology could be at the heart of next-generation personal navigation and vehicle stabilisation tools thanks to European researchers.

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(16/11/2008)
Scientists at Empa, a Swiss research institute, have developed a mechanical pressure sensor that can be embedded within orthopedic implants, close to bone fractures, to provide physicians with post-operative status updates.

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(27/10/2011)
Xiaohui “Frank” Zhang is integrating physics, immunology and biology to develop a “nanodevice” that could provide a new treatment for stroke, thrombosis and atherosclerosis.

Zhang, assistant professor of mechanical en...


(05/09/2005)
Simulation of mechanical systems

Mechanical systems simulation has always typically been a primitive branch of simulation. Individual moving parts have long been simulated working together, but a complete working engine in re...