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by pronlover723 1253 days ago
This is extremely cool!

I haven't much of a clue on motion capture. But, the capture I want to do requires feet, hands, face, shoulders, arms, knees, fingers, AND the ability to do it in any position. Curl up in ball. Roll over on the floor. I want to capture more than just a head and hands upright but AFAIK there's no solution under $20k.

See user name. if I want to make pr0n, I need to be able to capture those positions. Is there anything that can do it on the cheap?

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Curling up in a ball and rolling around on the floor seems like a worst case for a lot of motion tracking setups. Systems based on wearable sensors won't work because you can't comfortably roll around in them, and single-viewpoint systems like the Kinect get confused when they can't see your whole body.

Have you tried getting a bunch of Kinects and doing some kind of sensor fusion? I don't know what the current state of the software is but you can buy the hardware for <$100 each used.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/30/23485732/sony-mocopi-mot...

Not open source but pretty cheap and does 80% of what you want, especially if you combined it with this.