MEDI 264: Interactive Sound and Vision - Motion Tracking + Capture

So motion tracking is one thing I am very intrested in. I have looked at projects involving motion tracking including a Fourth Years Honor Project. I first started becomeing intrested in motion tracking after watching a video on how easily you can retro-fit the Wii-motes.



However as it combined virtual reality (something I also have a great passion for) It's not suprising that I love it. Now we have plenty of motion tracking toys avalible such as the EyeToy from Sony, The 3DS from Nintendo ( the first ever hand held consol to have motion tracking, 3D and Augmented Reality) also the X-Box from Microsoft has its own VR and motion tracking system the Kinect. All of these gadgets are awsome and with more and more sophisticated technology being produced there are only going to more and more breakthroughs in this field.


(Warning the video is almost sickly cute, it does however showcase just how sophisticated yet accesible this technology is)

We are using it more and more for practically every area of media, from video games to movies and also sometimes for art installations. There is even a specific role in the industry now for a Motion Capture Artist! It is so wide spread yet it remains as a toy that needs a certain amount of proficiency to use to create.

Motion Capture is also being used more and often in animated films to achieve greater degrees of realism in the way the characters move.

There are actually fairly heated debates now as to weather or not motion capture is an art form or if its fair on animators. Their is a lot of extensive work needed to be done with motion capture in this purpose. There has to be massive amounts of information passed back and forth between software and hardware and also between the humans using these new tools.



Robert Able who worked on this advert is known to be a pioneer in interactive media and computer visual effects, one of many that paved the way for what we have today so widely available and (in my opinion) enriches or lives.  

I am hoping to use motion tracking in my project.