yoshi-mocap opened this issue on Jun 03, 2006 ยท 89 posts
tvining posted Thu, 28 December 2006 at 7:35 PM
Oy! I checked back at the Optitrack website, and they admitted a mistake on their website, and now they say that their full body mocap solution won't be available until Fall 2007, instead of Spring 2007. I'm dyin' here! Yoshi had this working for Poser back in March 2006, but they're gonna make us wait for a freakin' year and a half from that??? But, speaking not just for myself, you'd think they'd be thinking about their own sales: I may not be a hardware/software manufacturer, but I do know that technology time is like dog years--6 months is like 6 years in tech time. By not siezing on this opportunity they are running the risk of somebody swooping in and eating their lunch. Already the technology exists were you can calculate mocap from one camera (as seen in the "making of" Pirates of the Carribean II) so it might be just a matter of time before Optitrack's 6 camera array is obsolete. Right now that one-camera tech is really high-end software, but things change very quickly. Maybe it's just me, but if I were Optitrack, I'd get this solution to market ASAP--every day they delay they're just losing money!