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Sony Japan Mocopi [motion-tracking system]
There was a time when Microsoft's Kinect hit the ground and was a huge step in technology in the motion system race, maybe not for the games since the crown remained for Nintendo's Wiimote. Sony even cloned the Wiimote with the more mature designed PS Move - colorful and ludic. Unfortunately when it arrives the race was already over. Kinect's reduced to a hype toy for experimental projects while abscondite by the general public sight since Project Milo was a LAME joke in the market.
Talking about lame jokes, looks like the money is on metaverses nowadays - they never learn, uh?
In a young market with the not-so-convincing meta verse by Meta and its compelling legs problem, in addition to crypto verses not attracting that much sympathy - except for tech bros... Sony gets the color and ludic out of the closet again with Mocopi. The brand presents us with a Bluetooth kit of six button-like tracking tags — one for your head, hip, both ankles, and both wrists — connecting with a smartphone app to input motion data to compatible services.
It really feels like you can just grab and start doing shit, isn't it? With a popular appeal that might-could-maybe-probably be a huge Mark Zuckerberg friend to solve his legs issue.
Sony is also releasing a software development kit (SDK) on December 15th that links motion capture data with metaverse services and 3D development software, such as Unity and Autodesk MotionBuilder.
Mocopi has a retail price of 49,500 yen (about $360) and is currently due to release in Late January 2023.
More info at The Verge
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Extra Curricular Lesson with Hideaki Anno
After Evangelion, Anno has gone on to work with Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli on several short films.
He also team up with close friend and Gainax cofounder Shinji Higuchi to write and codirect Shin Godzilla, the 2016 reboot of Toho's Godzilla franchise.
In the video I will present bellow, Mr. Anno goes back to his hometown to teach a class on animation, and learns to like himself a little more in the process.
Which is a pretty sweet thing since he always struggle to like himself.
The video cannot be embed in the blog, so please visit this link. Or click in the image.





















