Motion capture on the cheap:
Sony's Mocopi Can Turn You Into an Anime Girl With Just
Six Small Sensors and a Smartphone
"Starting early next year, Sony plans to capitalize on the rise in popularity of
VTubers—virtual YouTube (and sometimes Twitch) celebrities—and our slow
but steady transition to a life spent entirely in VR. The company will be
introducing a new and relatively affordable motion capture system that relies
on just six sensors strapped to the body and a smartphone capturing all of
the tracked motion data.
Computer-generated characters appearing in movies, TV, and video games
were once all animated by hand; a time-consuming and expensive process
that can result in a human character’s movements looking less than realistic
(which, fair, isn’t always the goal). Motion capture helped solve that problem
by capturing the nuanced movements of human performers and translating
their movements to virtual characters, right down to facial expressions and
even the movements of the eyes. Now, it seems we’re taking the steps to do
it live."
See:
https://gizmodo.com/sony-mocopi-full...ual-1849831283