News Release

VICON™


News Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
October 11, 2010 M. Braeden Marcott
Public Relations Director
(555) 662-8944
bmarcott@vicon.com




VICON™ markets first-ever 16-megapixel Motion Capture camera

Los Angeles, CA. -- VICON™ Motion Systems has produced the world’s first 16-megapixel motion capture (MoCap) camera, allowing for a resolution four times that of any previously made camera for the motion capture industry! The new T-160, will allow for even more precise performance values than those created in James Cameron’s 2009 Avatar.

Building upon VICON’s proprietary Vegas sensor design, the new T-160 features the advanced Avalon sensor, which can capture much smaller “markers” (the reflective balls
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attached to the special suits worn by actors in the motion capture environment), thus permitting a more refined performance by the actors.

Motion Capture cameras do not, in essence, capture images, but rather document the precise location in three-dimensional space of each of the markers placed upon the actor by collecting the reflected “image”; and so could more accurately be described as sensors. As such, the more sophisticated the sensor, the more sophisticated the image that can be created on the big (or little) screen.

“Motion capture needs both high speed and high resolution. Regular sensors can only offer one or the other but not both. VICON Avalon enables data to be captured at a higher resolution than ever before with full frame speeds up to 120fps and resolutions up to 16 megapixels,” explains Cameron Spelling, Executive Director for VICON’s North America division. “With the use of the new T-160, film directors will be able to produce incredibly subtle facial performances, far superior to anything seen thus far.”

VICON was established in Oxford, England in 1984 and acquired Peak Performance Technologies of Colorado in 1994 with a goal of producing a computer- and video-based biomechanical analysis tool to help athletes improve their performance in preparation for Olympic and world competition. It is has gone on to establish itself as a world leader in its core business of motion capture and analysis.
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