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Chinese Team Develops Device That Sends You to Virtual World in Real Time

Time:2014-10-27Source:Internet
Profile:Chinese Team Develops Device That Sends You to Virtual World in Real Time
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A team of engineers in Beijing is working on a device that they say can bring you into the virtual world whenever you want, with an affordable price.

"The barrier between our world and the virtual world has rapidly been fading," said Tristan Dai, who leads a team that is developing the motion capture system Perception Neuron. "But capturing human motions and transporting them into the virtual space have remained difficult, expensive, and mostly been left to Hollywood and Silicon Valley professionals."

Dai describes Perception Neuron as "the ultimate motion capture system that anyone could pick up and start using right out of the box."

A neuron is a fingernail-sized inertial measurement unit with on-board calculation and calibration algorithms. A set of Perception Neuron consists of a package of neurons, a hub that provides power supply and data transmissions through USB and Wi-Fi, and gloves and body straps.

Paying US$200, one gets a 10-neuron package that can capture the motion of one hand or upper body. The team also offers 20-neuron and 30-neuron packages to capture full-body movement.

Perception Neuron comes with software development kits and open-source demo programs. "What you can do is limitless... You are free to adapt Perception Neuron to your specific needs... All you need to provide is your computer and wireless router," says Dai.

In an ambition to help "everyone to finally have the opportunity to experiment, develop and play with motion capture," Dai says Perception Neuron has potentials in the fields of visual special effects, interactive gaming, sports or medical analysis, and stage performance.

The Perception Neuron team is currently soliciting financial support via the crowd-funding website Kickstarter.com. It has pledged almost half of its US$250,000 goal.

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