Rokoko Introduces $2,500 MoCap Suit

Techcrunch has a story about a new start-up that is helping to make a motion capture suit for cheaper than what the studios are asking from content creators. Developed by Rokoko, the Smartsuit Pro coming in at around $2,500 looks like a ninja costume equipped with 19 gyroscopic sensors embedded within the suit and ships with its own studio software. I can think of more than a few creative things to make with that suit.

Rokoko is a hardware startup and the inventors of the sensor-based motion capture solution, the Smartsuit that will democratize character animation. The grand vision is to introduce a way to achieve a natural physical presence in the virtual world.

Saw the pic before I read the details and thought it was going to be an announcement of a Dark Angel reboot

For a pure IMU-based suit, they;'e already undercut by Noitom's Perception Neuron, which is $1500 for a 32-IMU (vs. 19) array.

It's not the suit that is the cost but the licenses and software that will getcha!