All you need are six small sensors and a dedicated smartphone app to unlock full-body motion capture.
As we’ve seen before with Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator app, the future of motion capture technology is quickly veering away from expensive tech-filled production studios and into the living rooms of our homes thanks to some groundbreaking new tech.
And similar to Unreal Engine’s tool, Sony Electronics has been hard at work as well developing their own mobile motion capture system “mocopi,” which was just announced to launch for U.S. markets.
But what is this new smartphone-powered full-body motion tracking system and how does it work?
Let’s take a look at Sony’s mocopi and how you can use its six small sensors to capture your own motion data to put your avatars in motion or, even better, send that motion data to your third-party software of choice for creating your own animations and videos.
Author: Jourdan Aldredge
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
