New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Singapore

Tisch School of the Arts Asia launched a new Master of Fine Arts in Animation and Digital Arts curriculum. Designed to immerse students in a unique creative environment, the program teaches the traditional forms of the art of animation and explores a sandbox of advanced techniques and digital technologies. Using Organic Motion’s Stage system, Tisch was able to provide all the students with hands-on experience with the most advanced motion capture technology available in the market

Indiana University

Renowned as one of the world’s “Most Wired Campuses,” Indiana University seeks advanced technology providers that can benefit the most students in an interdisciplinary setting. In selecting a computer vision or motion capture solution, Indiana University needed technology that was robust enough to generate high-quality data, and that would be an easy to use solution with minimal operating requirements. Indiana University selected Organic Motion’s Stage system to provide students and faculty with technology that could drive cutting-edge curricula and new research on its Bloomington campus

Visual Interaction and Communication Technologies Centre (Vicomtech – IK4)

Visual Interaction and Communication Technologies Centre (Vicomtech – IK4) is an applied research center for interactive computer graphics and multimedia. Using the latest advances in the field, Vicomtech - IK4 works with companies and institutions to create applications and product prototypes in diverse markets and areas such as life sciences, augmented reality, industrial applications, and human computer interaction, among others. This vast scope of work combined with tight deliverable timeframes provided the strict requirements for the motion capture system: precise real-time motion data, quick set up with little or no calibration time and ease of use. Organic Motion’s markerless motion capture technology was the only technology in the market to comply with all the requirements.

Vicomtech – IK4 is currently working on a vast motion capture database library, and exploring future deployment of the software in advanced HCI applications.

Rochester Institute of Technology, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, School of Design

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has installed Organic Motion’s Stage system to enhance their virtual theatre research, a collaborative project between Computer Graphics Design and Computer Science. A live stream of motion capture data controls an acting avatar in a live theatrical performance on a virtual stage. Custom applications developed for this project allow cast members, the stage manager, crew and the audience to interact during a performance

Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida

At the University of Florida (UF) Digital Worlds Institute, both Organic Motion’s Stage and BioStage systems are used in the Research, Education and Visualization Environment (REVE). Stage is utilized to create entirely new virtual experiences, and to study peoples’ interaction in digital arenas. Digital Worlds (DW) serves as a platform for interdisciplinary research and education that spans various colleges and departments and its REVE facility hosts a wide variety of innovative activities

DW created a new therapeutic Virtual World Environment (VWE). Entitled “Healing the Wounded Warrior: Virtual Environments for Therapeutic Solutions (VETS)”, the project is designed to serve as a treatment tool for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans returning home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The VETS VWE will work to reintegrate soldiers via virtual interactions in everyday civilian simulated scenarios, designed to assist in transitioning soldiers from traumatic war environments by coping with potentially annoying or stressful day-to-day situations back home

Marshall University

Members of the Center for Environmental, Geotechnical and Applied Sciences (CEGAS) at Marshall University are using Organic Motion’s Stage system along with advanced visualization equipment to simulate the environment of an underground coal mine. Partnering with the US Mine Safety and Health Administration Academy, Marshall’s CEGAS is designing new simulators to train teams of miners and first responders in mine safety by utilizing virtual reality situations in custom immersive environments

Tolles Career & Technical Center

At Tolles Career & Technical Center in central Ohio, teachers sought a way to incorporate a motion capture system that not only provided high fidelity in capture accuracy, but was also easy to use and that would provide students with the skills required in today’s digital media job market. Thus, finding a system that removed the body suits and increased the interaction with the students in the classroom was a key benefit to selecting Organic Motion’s Stage markerless motion capture system. A class was built around Stage and now students in the Computer Sciences department are learning how to create animations for both games and short films

Dresden University of Applied Sciences

Dresden University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden) uses Organic Motion Stage system to challenge its students’ creativity. Diverse departments such as Music, Digital Arts and Computer Science work together to create applications, like a ski game powered by the person’s motion, an artistic creation where music is triggered as the body moves, among others. The ski game is used to gather biomechanical information of a person as he/she mimics the ski moves

Dynamic Athletics Research Institute

Dynamic Athletics Research Institute (DARI) selected Organic Motion’s Stage system because of its “game changing” capabilities. DARI specializes in evaluating the athlete. To do so, they require the most accurate information possible, not just with tracking but also by creating a natural environment for the athlete. This can only be achieved with a markerless system, which takes away all of the set-up time needed to get an athlete ready and does not require any mechanical tracking devices or suit

DARI plans to offer NFL teams the ability to have their combine athletes evaluated. DARI will be able to evaluate the small deviations in an athlete’s movements whose performance has deteriorated. These small deviations are not detectable by the human eye, but by putting the athlete in the Organic Motion system they will be able to pin point movements in seconds

Colorado School of Mines

Colorado School of Mines (CSM) saw Stage as a great way to build a planned STEM exhibit for high schools. For this project, they used Stage to create a live version of XRAY vision – a student jumps into Stage, and is first displayed via regular video. Then they fade to animated cutaways, showing layers of the student’s body that moves exactly as the student moves, from the muscles to the skeleton. As a standard practice, Organic Motion fosters collaboration between its customers. This practice allowed CSM to take advantage of other Organic Motion customers’ knowledge and experience in developing applications with the software development kit, thereby reducing costs and development time

CSM also plans to add the biomechanics software plug-in and turn their Stage system into a BioStage for use in several biomechanics classes

Great Plains Technology Center

Great Plains Technology Center (GPTC) is a vocational school with a diverse student profile ranging from high school, to college, to adult classes. The head of the Animation program had envisioned several ways to enhance their existing animation and 3D modeling classes in a way that could be only be performed by Stage, with its ability to have students just hop right into the system and be tracked instantly. The professor was eager to develop curriculum and share that with other interested departments at GPTC

University New Mexico

University of New Mexico (UNM) was looking to start a Game Development Program, and decided a mo-cap system was one of the key technologies required. After researching the available systems, UNM determined that the ease of use, real-time data and instant calibration provided by Organic Motion’s Stage would offer the maximum benefit in their classrooms. Specifically, the curriculum designers felt the students would spend much more time involved in content creation and ‘story-telling’, as opposed to being involved with the technical operations required for other commercial motion capture systems. UNM also includes Stage in its prospective students Open Houses

Dundee College

Dundee College in the UK had a mission to create a Center of Excellence for all things related to digital media and production, including animation and virtual reality. The goal was to acquire a range of equipment that could be used in various classes and public exhibits, while reflecting the leading edge and innovative profile of the Center. Organic Motion’s Stage plug and play simplicity, paired with the high level of cognition and artificial intelligence that makes it the most advanced turnkey Computer Vision system in the market perfectly fit the profile

Houston Community College

As a community college, Houston Community College’s (HCC) goal was to provide classes for career training. So keeping the students up to date with the current technology was imperative. HCC determined that Organic Motion’s Stage system’s speed and ease of use would best facilitate the curriculum designed to prepare students for the commercial animation and production fields. The classes include character modeling, rigging, testing, set creation, animation, and final production for animated shorts, as well as live action storyboarding, and work booking