Updated 26 March 2021: iPi Soft has relesaed iPi Motion Capture 4.4. Since we last wrote about the software, iPi Soft has added support for Microsoft’s new Azure Kinect sensor. There are also improvements to tracking accuracy and stability: you can find details via the link below. The update adds support for streaming motion-capture data to Unity, making it possible to preview capture sessions inside the game engine in real time. Updated 2 December 2019: iPi Soft has released iPi Motion Capture 4.3. Other changes include automatic synchronisation of action cameras via flash detection, speeding up the process of merging multi-camera footage for data processing. The update makes it possible to use the real-time preview with data captured simultaneously from multiple sensors, either connected to a single computer, or to multiple computers. Updated 11 December 2018: iPi Soft has released iPi Motion Capture 4.1. IPi Recorder can also now load unsynchronised videos from multiple cameras and sync it automatically. In addition, the update adds support for action cameras with wide-angle lenses, making it possible to track actors closer to the camera, and to enable tracking at frame rates of up to 120fps. Support for action cameras makes it possible to track wide-angle footage up to 120fps The update also introduces the option to fix problem tracks by retracking individual body parts – the head, the torso, or any individual limb – while retaining the original track for others. New features this time round include the option to preview the capture in real time, with iPi Recorder streaming data to a 3D character inside iPi Mocap Studio.įinal-quality data processing is still done offline. New in iPi Mocap Studio 4.0: real-time capture preview, option to retrack individual body parts

That used to mean Microsoft’s now-defunct Kinect sensors or Sony’s PS3 Eye cameras, but you can also use other cameras that can reliably capture footage at 60fps, like Logitech’s C922 Pro webcam.Įach system consists of iPi Recorder, a free software package for capturing and playing back footage and iPi Mocap Studio, the commercial software used to process the recordings into animation data.ĭata processing is done offline, with data exportable in FBX and BVH formats. IPi Motion Capture systems provide indie studios with a full-body mocap set-up based around commercial depth sensors and cameras. The update also adds support for action cameras like those made by GoPro and SJCAM – and bucks an industry trend by reintroducing perpetual licensing on top of the previous rental-only model.Ī two-part markerless mocap system for indie studios IPi Soft has released iPi Motion Capture 4.0, a new update to its markerless motion-capture software suite, adding support for previewing capture data in real time, and for tracking individual body parts.

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