Vicon announces new products and partners

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Oxford Metrics PLC

02 August 2017

 

2 August 2017                                                                                      

Oxford Metrics plc

("Oxford Metrics" or the "Company")

Vicon announces new products and partners

Vicon Vertex enables tracking in smaller environments across Virtual Reality, automotive and life sciences

New 'Lite' version of the Cara facial capture system expands addressable market

Collaboration with Manus VR enables easy integration of their Virtual Reality gloves

Oxford Metrics plc (LSE: OMG), the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets, reports Vicon, the motion measurement specialist, has announced the launch of two new products and new partners at this year's SIGGRAPH conference.

First, Vicon launched a new camera measurement system, Vertex, which integrates seamlessly with Vicon's existing systems of Vantage and Vero. Vertex is compact, lightweight and has a wide angle field of view making it ideal for tracking in small or complex environments. This is of particular benefit to researchers when studying biomechanics in constrained locations or analysing the ergonomics of car drivers in the automotive industry. Vertex also thrives in Virtual Reality cave environments - allowing customers to effectively position the cameras in corners without casting shadows onto the projections.

Secondly, Vicon has announced the launch of Cara Lite. This new 'Lite' version of the Cara facial capture system can operate with one or two cameras, delivering a more flexible system, which has a rapid set-up time. Partnering with Dynamixyz, specialists in facial analysis and synthesis, film and game studios can now integrate Dynamixyz's Performer solution into the Cara Lite production pipeline, offering more realistic character animations. Using a mixture of marker-less and physical tracking, this practical solution opens the market up to film and game studios looking to achieve a higher-quality facial capture but with a lower cost of entry.

Finally, Vicon has collaborated with Manus VR, a leading developer of Virtual Reality gloves, giving customers the ability to incorporate the Manus VR Glove into their production pipelines. The gloves provide full finger tracking and haptic feedback, delivering the sensation of touch in virtual environments. For those deploying Virtual Reality environments, hand and finger movements are invaluable, as they allow users to interact with their surroundings in a natural way - removing the need for controllers.

Commenting on Vicon's continued innovation, Nick Bolton, CEO of Oxford Metrics, said:

"When we announced our five-year plan, our strategy for Vicon was to target R&D spend on projects which enhance our product strength and fortify our market-leading position. These latest launches announced at SIGGRAPH do exactly that. The price-point and flexibility of Cara Lite expands our facial capture system to an entirely new range of film and game studios, and our new measurement system, Vertex will help drive Vicon's growth in the Virtual Reality market."

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About Oxford Metrics

Oxford Metrics develops and markets analytics software for motion measurement and infrastructure asset management to clients in over 70 countries worldwide. Our list of clients across the globe is as diverse as the markets we operate in; we help highways authorities manage and maintain their road networks, hospitals and clinicians decide therapeutic strategies and Hollywood studios create stunning visual effects. And the diversity of applications is growing all the time.

The group trades through two subsidiaries: Vicon and Yotta. Vicon is the world's leader in high precision motion measurement analysis to thousands of customers worldwide, including Guy's Hospital, EA Sports, MIT and NASA and our software is used in an ever expanding range of applications. Yotta provides cloud-based infrastructure asset management software to central and local government agencies and other infrastructure owners. Yotta has a large number of high profile clients including Highways England and Amey in the UK and VicRoads in Australia amongst others.

Founded in 1984 our group is headquartered in Oxford with offices in Leamington Spa, Gloucester, California, Colorado and Auckland. Since 2001, Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), has been a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange.

For more information about Oxford Metrics and to learn about our strategy, click here.

 

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