Vicon Launches New Product

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OMG PLC

13 October 2009

 



13 October 2009

OMG plc 

("OMG" or the "Group")

Vicon Launches New Product

New generation Bonita camera is small, powerful and cost-effective

OMG plc, Oxford Metrics Group (LSE: OMG), ("OMG" or "the Group") the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries is pleased to announce the launch of Vicon Bonita: a small, affordable optical capture camera for tracking and analyzing motion. 

Launched by Vicon - OMG's motion capture arm - for use in the engineering and life science markets, Bonita is capable of capturing 240fps (frames per second) while being small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Vicon has also today launched Tracker: a robust object-tracking software providing unparalleled data accuracy for integration in 3D applications. 

"Our 25-year history for technological innovations and our experience perfecting camera calibration and 3D reconstruction techniques has led to the development of Bonita and Tracker," said Doug Reinke, CEO and President, Vicon. "These two very exciting introductions have been designed to be powerful, easy to use, cost-effective and are tailor-made for those working in industrial engineering, robotics, human factors engineering, virtual engineering and academia."

Bonita is Vicon's smallest optical capture camera and has been engineered to be powerful, accurate, reliable and affordable. It is easy to set up and accurate enough to capture images with positional accuracy down to one millimeter in a 4m x 4m volume.

Also commenting on the launch Nick Bolton, OMG Chief Executive Officer said:

"I am very pleased to see the launches of both Bonita and Tracker today. These are two products that share many of the same attributes. They're off the shelf and easy to get to grips with, they're capable of high performance and powerful accuracy, and they're also easy to integrate with existing PC hardware and other third-party software as well as cameras already in the Vicon range. The Vicon team and I look forward to demonstrating the capabilities of these products in the months ahead." 

Bonita will be priced at £19,500 for an eight-camera system, including the Tracker software. Both products begin shipping in autumn 2009. For further information click here.

For further information please contact:

OMG plc	[phone]
Nick Bolton, Chief Executive David Deacon, Finance Director
Financial Dynamics	[phone]
Juliet Clarke / Matt Dixon / Emma Appleton
Evolution Securities (NOMAD to OMG)	[phone]
Jeremy Ellis

About OMG plc and Vicon

Academy Award®-winning Vicon is the world's largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, and match moving software. It serves customers in the CG animation industry, film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries. Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters: a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for Vicon's service company House of Moves as well as over 250 Vicon T-160 and F40 cameras.  

Vicon is a subsidiary of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image understanding solutions for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering markets. 

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, www.vicon.com/boujou, www.2d3.com, www.yotta.tv, or www.yottmvs.com.  

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