Motion Capture System Prototype [12 sensors and maya client]

This is a motion capture system prototype, which uses flexible optic-mechanics sensors (patent pending).
These sensors are very cheap and easy to construct. Connection with the computer via USB, or networked (wireless). The system is light, robust, and ergonomic.

In the video you can see about 12 sensors on a glove. Each sensor measure the flexion of each joint in my hand, the information is collected for the device in the white box and sent to the computer via USB. In to the computer my program checks the value reported for each sensor and shows them in a graphical window using some markers (left).At the same time the information is sent to an other program using a socket based connection. In this case the receptor is Maya (right window), the data captured from my hand is mapped to the virtual one.
The first markers at the left of the screen represent the state of the joints of my hand. You can appreciate the smoothness of the movement in the hand representation, even without filtering data.

During the video you can see the position of my fingers when I take the mouse to move the cursor.

This video shows that the system is capable of send information about many sensors to a variety of software such as Maya.

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  Science & Technology

[Landon Podbielski]

How could you come up with such a device and not flip us off with it?

[cybermind]

this is very cool. have you considered using hybrid technology, so as to add extra functionality for simpler uses and greater compatibility?

you've done great work. look into IR LEDs for BASIC positional tracking, and imems to calc other variables that cannot be reported by the existing sensor net.

very interesting! keep up the great work!

[lewisvz]

Power glove :)

[Ulises Zaldivar]

Hola, oye como se llaman esas mangueritas que usas? y el cable que va por dentro de que material es?

la placa o canaleta donde entran los cables que son detectados por la camara fue fabricada por ustedes?

[Bogdan Nicorici]

i have the same model of mouse with this

[Zetimenvec]

that's neat and all, but I think the response needs to be a little faster. That is, If we expect people to be playing videogames with this technology

[wind27382]

no I belive it's all custom made

[lkaoTicl]

maya sucks 5yrs i have lost using it.Something i have worked on 4 mnts. can be done in houdini in 15 mins..I want my 5 yrs. of life back u piece of shait software.Maya is "he" and he is gay.

[Mustafa4u]

How much does it costs?

[FPSsurreal]

the thumb is not working very accurantly.

the future of video gaming will be something like that, where you have to get your ass up and actually move.

nintendo wii is already there!