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Moving on up: motion-capture technology has been on the verge of breaking into wide use for nearly 20 years. Has the time come?(Motion Capture)
In Part 1 of a two-part series, we look at some non-entertainment applications of mocap.
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The figures $50 million to $100 million are commonly bandied about to describe the entire motion-capture market. Compared to the digital content creation market, for example, which Jon Peddle Research estimates hit $3 billion in 2006, the mocap market is the size of a dot. And yet, at SIGGRAPH 2007, more than 20 vendors--a significant percentage of the total hardware and software vendors--were on the trade show floor pitching a variety of motion-capture solutions.
Why so many? Three reasons. First, SIGGRAPH has become the go-to place ...
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