Consumer Grade 3D Motion Capture

Most days I spend a couple of minutes looking at one of my favourite gadget news websites, Engadget. I came across this awesome post about a company called Xsens teasing 3D body sensors that are inexpensive to track body movement brilliantly. When we think of full-body motion capture we often think thousands and thousands of pounds of equipment only affordable by film productions that have dedicated rooms and a bank account to fund it all.

The company Xsens claims to use small sensors placed on joints to track each point, basically it's the technology that would go into a phone's accelerometer strapped to your arms and legs. Can you imagine how much more precise games like the Wii Fit and Xbox Kinect would be with something as simple as this.

To prove they're worth they demonstrate with a skateboarder and an iPad showing the movements created, which as you can see down below are very impressive.

3D Motion Tracking may have just become alot more easier.