OptiTrack ARENA - optical motion capture software

[Jim]

Hello:

NaturalPoint has been hard at work on an optical full body motion capture solution, and we are happy to announce that we are going to be showing ARENA at SIGGRAPH 2007!

Below are some new links to sample data and videos showing the ARENA software in action.

http://media.naturalpoint.com/ftp/npupl ... boxing.wmv
http://media.naturalpoint.com/ftp/npupl ... boxing.bvh
http://media.naturalpoint.com/ftp/npupl ... tennis.wmv
http://media.naturalpoint.com/ftp/npupl ... tennis.bvh


Yes, you can buy a 6 OptiTrack V100 cameras, software and related accessories for about $5000, an amazing new price point for the industry.

We will also be selling all the accessories we could think of for optical mocap including; markers, suits and tripods, basically a one stop online shop for optical mocap.

We are very excited to get feedback from the community at SIGGRAPH!

[markdc]

The videos and bvh files are really impressive. Great work by you and your team.

[Jim]

Thanks for the kind words.

I was just going back and looking at our previous video posts and it reminds me how much work has been done over the last few months.

[Guest]

Hi Jim, this sounds like a miracle is there a chance that you'll have some presenation somewhere in Europe some day?

Thanks,
Jakub Mares

[Jim]

Hello:

Perhaps we will have a presentation in Europe, or a dealer for OptiTrack products there soon. Once the product is out, there will be a lot more info on our web site, and you can always order direct, with our 30 day return period.

[crd]

Hi,

In a previous post you mentioned the support for C3D file formats.

Would users be able to sync analog devices (like EMG, Force plates, etc.) along with the motion capture data using the Arena software in C3D. This functionality would be of great help in promoting the Optitrack system as a motion analysis and biomechanics research tool.

Thanks

[yoshi]

Here are a couple more of videos from recent captures:
http://media.naturalpoint.com/ftp/npupl ... o/jump.wmv
http://media.naturalpoint.com/ftp/npupl ... dy-gun.wmv

[Jim]

cdr:

Sorry for the delay, I must have missed your post.

We don't have sync for external analog devices yet, but we have that as a feature request, so I am sure we will do it at some point. If you had a USB data logger then I think the data could be sync'd as we do have external sync output on our cameras.