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Friday, January 13, 2012

#MEMS: "Smart Sensors Compare Pro/Am Athletes"

Shrinking sensor technologies and smart analytics are enabling tiny motion trackers to be sewn into athletes’ suits, providing detailed data collection and real-time comparisons to famous, record-setting performances.


Custom motion tracking suits are already being worn by famous actors, enabling their motions to control the action of computer-animated characters. This was done in the recent 20th Century Fox's X-Men: First Class movie where actors worked in suits built by Xsens Technologies BV to rehearse complex scenes and instantly review the corresponding performance of animated characters in real-time.
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