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iPi Soft Motion Capture

iPi Soft Motion Capture™ is a scalable markerless motion capture software tool that supports 1 or 2 Kinect cameras or 3 to 8 Sony PlayStation Eye cameras to track 3D human body motions and produce 3D animation.

iPi Motion Capture is so powerful and cost effective. It’s fantastic to be able to come up with an idea and in a few minutes record exactly what you want and apply it to your characters. iPi is what mocap should be all about — making your ideas reality in a matter of minutes.

David Gonzalez, President of Mission Critical Studios, a New Jersey-based developer of mobile games: www.missioncriticalstudios.com

With iPi Motion Capture™ you can

Record multi-camera video in regular office / home environment
Track 3D human motions right at your desktop and produce 3D animation
Clean-up / edit 3D animation using integrated clean-up / keyframing tools
Transfer motions to 3D character and export 3D animation to most popular formats including FBX, BVH, Collada

iPi Motion Capture™ works with off-the-shelf equipment

1 or 2 Kinect / Xtion depth sensors or
3 to 8 Sony PS Eye cameras
Runs on regular PC with gaming-class videocard

iPi Motion Capture™ is compatible with

Autodesk 3DS Max, Maya
Valve Source Engine, Unreal Engine, Unity
CINEMA 4D, Lightwave
Poser, DAZ3D, Blender and others.

Advantages

portable system that can be packed in a backpack with as less as 20-30 minutes set-up and calibration time
allow up to 20 by 20 feet capture volume with minimum required space as small as 9 by 5 feet
with integrated animation clean-up and motion transfer tools you do not necessarily need expensive 3rd party applications
extremely affordable solution

iPi Motion Capture™ is a markerless technology that literally puts motion capture at animator’s desktop and brings a totally new workflow paradigm to Filmmakers, CG animators, videogame developers, broadcast motion graphics designers and prosumers

Customers are from

Entertainment
3D design
education
military
and other vertical markets

iPi Motion Capture™ is available in 3 editions

Express Edition:

Entry-level configuration that works with one depth sensor (Kinect or Xtion)
Easy to use but applicable for relatively simple motions without rotations

Basic Edition:

Includes all basic features needed for high accuracy motion capture
Supports capture with 2 depth sensors or 3 to 4 Sony PS Eye cameras

Pro Edition:

Includes all high-end features including multiple persons tracking
Supports capture with 2 depth sensors or 3 to 8 Sony PS Eye cameras