Introduction In our last blog, we described our history with markerless motion tracking dating back to 2009 with early shape fitting methods. We discussed the benefits we saw with AI based tracking methods and, our view of the futu ...
Markerless Tracking in Motion Capture
What is it and Why it is important? In simplest terms, “markerless tracking” is the ability to track the movement of human beings without instrumentation attached to the body. Most traditional tracking technologies involve attaching reflecti ...
What Technology Do I Start With For My Player Performance Program? Force Plates!
Introduction Since the early 1990’s there have been significant advances in hardware to track and measure human motion. Cameras, electro-magnetic trackers, and inertial measurement units to track the position and orientation of the body; EMG ...
COVID-19 and Equipment Cleaning
How has COVID-19 Complicated Data Collection? Data collection has gotten much more complicated because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping subject and researcher safe means following guidelines introduced by research institutions regarding the inte ...
Biofeedback & Real-Time Motion Capture
Biofeedback – What are the possibilities? With the release of The MotionMonitor xGen, our inaugural blog shared some of the things you have been telling us regarding the state of motion capture software. Biofeedback and its use to understand ...
Real-Time Motion Capture in Biomechanics
Real Time Data Collection – What is it & Why Does it Matter? In March, our inaugural blog identified concepts that our clients had highlighted as important features of motion capture systems. One of the most important was real time data ...
Hybrid Motion Capture Systems
Hybrid Systems and How They Enhance Biomechanics Research In our last posting, we outlined several topics that clients have been requesting over the years as ways to extend and deepen the area of motion capture and biomechanics research. One ...
The Next Generation of Biomechanics Software
In our inaugural blog I thought it would be worthwhile to share some of the things you have been telling us regarding the state of motion capture. During the 24 years that we have been providing software solutions to the research community you ...