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No one in the digital content creation industry would deny that motion capture has become an increasingly important tool for studios that create effects for movies and television programs. Problems with motion capture--which center mostly around how to process the data once it is captured--still exist, but solutions are continuing to emerge. One of the latest of these is Vicon iQ, software from Vicon Motion Systems that is designed to resolve ambiguities from motion capture data.

Vicon iQ works with Vicon's 8i motion capture systems and M-series cameras, simultaneously capturing and recording video and a high-resolution data stream in real time. When data becomes too complex to resolve in real time, iQ uses automatically calculated skeletal information about the ...

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