Realtime full body motion streaming into Second Life

I strongly believe that the future of Internet is 3D and that virtual worlds like Second Life will soon replace traditional web browsing. In this demo I show how motion capture technology can help users to better express themselves in Virtual Worlds by translating their real life body movements onto a Second Life avatar. This translation is pretty accurate and can happen in real time. The motion capture equipment we use is currently very expensive, but with prices decreasing it will essentially replace keyboards, mouses and game consoles for the majority of the tasks we do online.

To make the avatar move, I have developed a software package that can read the positions and rotations of each of the sensors in real time and then map those onto the avatar joints in Second Life.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Motion Capture
• Virtual Worlds
• Second Life
• Real time

[sjatkins]

How is the avatar being driven in SL? I thought you could only play canned animations but here you seem to be feeding it directly into SL. How are you doing that exactly?

[ozzeuk]

@sjatkins I had to use a modified version of the SL client.

[Laxpowertoo]

This is really cool! Could you connect it to something like an exercise machlne so you could walk around too, instead of just waving your arms around on the spot?

[ozzeuk]

@Laxpowertoo sure thing, it's possible.

[vistabarnes]

Really interesting, for sure is the future. Not sure how compatible this will be with traditional SL animations uploaded to SL. Could this work in priority levels?

[ozzeuk]

@vistabarnes It could, why not.

[samadhiquandry]

i want to dance hehe can i have one

[Caspercial]

i was just reading posts and omg come on sex motions really? geesh more than that it could be used for hand to hand combat, dancing together with someone, and so many more useful things than just sex motions ffs people stop being so ignorant all the time its getting old

[Caspercial]

please hurry up and get this on the market so we can buy it do you know what fun this would be to have on sl and how cool it would be for many many many reasons ?? OF course you do!! so hurry uup and get it on the market please i want this!! this will outdo every gaming system

[Caspercial]

I want the equipment so i can slap someone in SL lol

[NewAgeDirector]

Great video keep up the good work.

[meth9876]

Have you created a paper about this? I would be interested in reading it.