Ahoy all,
The NaturalPoint Team had a great show at SIGGRAPH last week(!), and met a ton of important people who were thrilled by the system's performance and price point.
(quite a few new stories have popped up, which we are now linking to on the new OptiTrack Reviews Page.)
If you have any questions about our presence or other aspects of the show, please feel free to post here.
SIGGRAPH 2007 - OptiTrack Blows Everyone Away
Re: SIGGRAPH 2007 - OptiTrack Blows Everyone Away
And here's another photo of the neverending crowd.
[image]http://media.naturalpoint.com/remote-li ... Pwork2.jpg[/image]
Kind of "what the view was like from our perspective." (sadly I don't have a nice shot of our entire booth from the external perspective).
[image]http://media.naturalpoint.com/remote-li ... Pwork3.jpg[/image]
Basically we had a roughly 9 foot square motion capture "Arena" on the left end of our 30 foot booth, with 12 OptiTrack cameras mounted on aluminum truss work and hooked into a laptop (We'd usually prefer a 20 foot diameter between a head-height ring of cameras - to create a larger capture volume - but 12 high mounted cameras covered the small area exceptionally well. It was rather thrilling to have one of the few mocap demos at the show that actually worked reliably from open to close). Sometimes we setup a second laptop running motion builder so we could show off the real time streaming with a slick female model.
[image]http://media.naturalpoint.com/remote-li ... Pwork2.jpg[/image]
Kind of "what the view was like from our perspective." (sadly I don't have a nice shot of our entire booth from the external perspective).
[image]http://media.naturalpoint.com/remote-li ... Pwork3.jpg[/image]
Basically we had a roughly 9 foot square motion capture "Arena" on the left end of our 30 foot booth, with 12 OptiTrack cameras mounted on aluminum truss work and hooked into a laptop (We'd usually prefer a 20 foot diameter between a head-height ring of cameras - to create a larger capture volume - but 12 high mounted cameras covered the small area exceptionally well. It was rather thrilling to have one of the few mocap demos at the show that actually worked reliably from open to close). Sometimes we setup a second laptop running motion builder so we could show off the real time streaming with a slick female model.
Re: SIGGRAPH 2007 - OptiTrack Blows Everyone Away
Finally, here's a shot of the two fine fellows from Motion4u, who were showing off Point Cloud uses on the right end of our booth
[image]http://media.naturalpoint.com/remote-li ... tion4u.jpg[/image]
(alex on the far left, and Dan slightly obscured by tripod).
We invited these gentlemen to show off their extremely cool OptiTrack Point Cloud toolkit based projects, and offer the unbiased customer perspective to any skeptics who wondered about the performance and support afforded by such a low price point.
Although they had several demos, the most popular was using a mouse with three mounted markers as a 6DOF input device in Maya. Basically, it acted as a normal mouse when down on the pad, but if you lifted it more than a couple inches (adjustable) it would switch over to 6DOF input - which you could use to move (and record) objects/cameras/lights depending one which mouse button you held down. So you could swirl a light completely around your model in real time just by moving the markers around in a small air circle, and you could also move exponentially in any direction by clicking and releasing (like the common practice of picking up a 2D mouse).
For more information on what these guys are doing, check out motion4u.org for more details.
[image]http://media.naturalpoint.com/remote-li ... tion4u.jpg[/image]
(alex on the far left, and Dan slightly obscured by tripod).
We invited these gentlemen to show off their extremely cool OptiTrack Point Cloud toolkit based projects, and offer the unbiased customer perspective to any skeptics who wondered about the performance and support afforded by such a low price point.
Although they had several demos, the most popular was using a mouse with three mounted markers as a 6DOF input device in Maya. Basically, it acted as a normal mouse when down on the pad, but if you lifted it more than a couple inches (adjustable) it would switch over to 6DOF input - which you could use to move (and record) objects/cameras/lights depending one which mouse button you held down. So you could swirl a light completely around your model in real time just by moving the markers around in a small air circle, and you could also move exponentially in any direction by clicking and releasing (like the common practice of picking up a 2D mouse).
For more information on what these guys are doing, check out motion4u.org for more details.