Vicon has acquired Captive Devices Ltd, a Manchester, U.K.-based maker of head-mounted camera systems for markerless facial performance capture.
\n\nVicon is the motion capture arm of Oxford Metrics. The founding team at Captive Devices has joined Vicon effective immediately.
\n\nNinja Theory, Nant Studios, Animatrik and Deep Silver Dambuster Studios are among the studios that already rely on Captive Devices’ hardware and software to capture facial performance for visual effects, games and virtual production. Folding that technology into Vicon’s existing body-tracking systems gives the company an in-house offering that spans both facial and body capture, something it says no other vendor in the space currently provides.
\n\nVicon’s marker-based optical motion capture, the core of its business for more than 40 years, remains unchanged. The company frames the acquisition as an addition rather than a replacement, allowing customers to layer markerless facial capture onto the systems they already run.
\n\n“This acquisition is a natural fit for Vicon and Captive Devices, culturally and technologically,” said Imogen O’Connor, chief executive of Oxford Metrics, Vicon’s parent company. “Vicon can now offer customers a more integrated, end-to-end body and face capture workflow that enables them to capture, analyze and animate human performance with even greater efficiency…
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