The Manus Prime Xsens gloves were featured during an episode of T-Pain School of Business. In this episode T-Pain gives a virtual concert wearing an Xsens suit together with the Prime Xsens gloves to animate his album mascot in real-time.

T-Pain was a visitor at Wave who, during the COVID-19, supply fans with virtual concerts with artists from various genres. Wave uses the Xsens technology, including our gloves, to do motion capture on the move.

The Prime Xsens series are integrated into MVN Animate. That way, the motion capture industry has more freedom of how and where to do the capturing.

Find out more about our partnership with Xsens 

Wave: T-Pain School Of Business

Hero the Chakor from Allahyar and the legend of Markhor, shares tips on how to fight Corona. A public service message produced by 3rd World Studios to assist the Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan. This announcement is created by 3rd World Studios a 3D animation studio based in Pakistan. Producers of the Unreal Engine-animated feature film Allahyar and the Legend of Markhor, and winners of multiple awards, and Unreal Dev Grant.

3rd World Studios created this COVID-19 PSA in record time, by using iClone 7, Unreal Engine 4, Xsens, and the Manus Xsens gloves.

The English voice acting/dubbing performed and recorded by Canadian artists  Lucas Gilbertson and Carol Anne Day.

3rd World Studios: Stay Home & Create Hero's

3rd World Studios: Stay Home & Create Heros

The 2020 European Games mascot was brought alive by Asterman Digital Production using the Prime Xsens glove together with an Xsens suit. During the official presentation “The Flame of Peace”, the 3D-model of the mascot Lesik accompanied the participants as the co-host.

Asterman adopted Xsens MVN Animate to render the mascot in real-time, creating a CG co-host. Motion capture has to include accurate face, body and hand tracking. The Xsens MVN suit was used to record body movement, while the Prime Xsens gloves captured accurate hand and finger movement. Together with facial motion capture, these products brought the mascot Lesik alive. The production was completed within two days, by using user-friendly motion capture technologies provided by Manus VR and Xsens. The actor playing Lesik was based in a small room behind the live stage. He was able to react to every question instantly by watching the audience via broadcast. There was no need for a large-scale setup.

Asterman: Bringing The 2019 European Games Mascot to Life

Asterman: Bringing the 2019 European Games Mascot to Life

Bluedrop Training & Simulation’s Rescue Hoist Training System is a fully immersive virtual training device for mission-specific external load hoisting operations. The rescue hoist training system allows the trainee to practice mission-critical skills in a safe, true-to-life environment. Trainees practice realistic rescue and hoisting operations in challenging scenarios complete with realistic cable behavior that responds to flight dynamics and operator inputs.

Bluedrop: High-End Virtual Procedural Training

Bluedrop | High-end virtual procedural trainings

The process of designing a new product can be difficult and long. When the product is finally finished, you want to present it to the public in the right way. For the introduction of the Škoda Vision E, a brand new concept car, an immersive VR experience was built to let the audience drive the car in the virtual world.

Releasing your latest product in mixed reality

How do you show off your new futuristic concept car to a large audience? That’s the question Škoda asked themselves when they released the Vision E concept car. The solution? Virtual reality.

The car manufacturer teamed up with PresentiGO, a Czech technology startup. Together they created a mixed reality experience, where users can drive the Vision E through a futuristic world in VR. The biggest challenge was getting the users to be able to naturally interact with the simulator that was built for the experience.

Overcoming obstacles: VR versus the physical world

Interacting with real-life objects while in VR requires your hands to be freely used. Unlike controllers, the Manus VR Gloves have no restrictions while working in virtual or mixed reality. Interacting with real-life props such as a steering wheel or buttons is easy and can be done without limitations. With the Manus VR Gloves, users were able to drive around in PresentiGO’s futuristic environment, while all hand data could be saved and analyzed by Škoda. Škoda’s Vision E experience was shown in 2017 at the IAA in Frankfurt, the world’s largest motor show.

PresentiGO is a fast-growing US-Czechia based startup with offices in San Francisco and Prague. They developed a next-generation presentation sales tool, which enhances the possibilities of classic presentations. PresentiGO also works on VR projects, extending complexity, technological savviness, and innovation.

Škoda: The Ultimate Driving Experience

The Royal Netherlands Army uses VR for different kinds of training. Using the multiplayer platform of our partner VREE in combination with the Manus VR Gloves, military personnel can be easily trained in a virtual environment.

Royal Netherlands Army: Multiplayer Operator Training

Royal Netherlands Army | Multiplayer operator training

Gaming in VR is fun, but do you know what’s even more fun? Gaming in VR with your friends. Group XXII, a French creation studio developed a collaborative VR simulation with the Manus VR Gloves.

“While preparing for Laval Virtual, we had the idea to develop a mixed reality experience, using different technologies while interacting directly with virtual objects.

We had the environment, a submarine, and the idea to make a collaborative and multiplayer simulation. The XXII-team wanted to bring participants into a virtual submarine to repair its defective engine. The only issue here was that we wanted more than just classic controls. We wanted to combine the virtual world with the real world.”

“We used the Manus VR Gloves because we wanted to create the ultimate interactive and collaborative simulation.

The gloves bring a more realistic look to the immersive simulation. The user can see his/her fingers moving and be more precise in their actions. With the gloves, users can touch physical objects that are also visible in VR. It’s amazing.”

Founded in 2015 by William Eldin and Damien Mulhem, XXII is a deep tech specialist working on two activities:

– A Creation studio focusing on innovative, interactive and immersive software, content and apps in VR / AR / MR.

– An intelligence provider, a marketplace of bio-inspired AI skills for security, retail and environment.

With 40+ talented and passionate PhDs, engineers, developers and creatives in France, China and the US, XXII’s mission is to build tomorrow’s tools to augment Human and its senses.

Group XXII: Creating A Multiplayer, Mixed Reality Escape Room

Group XXII | Creating a multiplayer, mixed reality escape room

The rehabilitation for stroke patients can be hard both physically and mentally. CETMA, S. Anna Institute and Rehalife Srl. designed and developed a serious game in virtual reality to improve arm rehabilitation for stroke patients.

How to facilitate rehabilitation in stroke patients?

“CETMA Virtual&Augmented Reality Area, specialized in interactive technologies, worked at the request of the rehabilitation center S. Anna Institute to develop a serious game in VR to facilitate arm rehabilitation in stroke patients. The serious game had to be set in a familiar virtual environment with ordinary objects, which is an important factor to make patients feel comfortable during the exercise. The challenge was to drive patients to interact with the virtual objects using their impaired arm to carry out movements of the hand useful for the rehabilitation.”

“To practice hand’s movement in virtual reality you need to detect every finger position. Thanks to the Manus VR Gloves, we were able to develop a VR serious game where patients are able to touch, grasp and move the digital objects in different scenarios according to the difficulties of the exercise. With this system, they can practice the serious game at home with minimum support, feel motivated and comfortable in a familiar environment and save the results of their sessions in a database that doctors can check remotely.”

CETMA, Technologies Design and Materials European Research Centre, is a Research and Technology Organization (RTO) based in Brindisi (Italy) with more than 20 years of applied research, experimental development and technology transfer in the field of advanced materials, ICT and product development.

CETMA Virtual & Augmented Reality Area part of New Technologies and Design Department is the unit specialized in advanced visual systems and interactive technologies, including virtual and augmented reality. It operates in several sectors such as industry, cultural heritage, entertainment, security, and health, providing R&D consulting and innovative services.

CETMA: Improving Rehabilitation For Stroke Patients

CETMA | Improving rehabilitation for stroke patients

Jack VR is an immersive VR movie experience made by Baobab Studios and director Mathias Chelebourg. A re-imagined fairytale world and a unique and visionary VR experience.

The goal was to create a cinematic VR-experience with a live actor. With a Motion Capture solution by OptiTrack, the actor could instantly transform into a character in the virtual world and interact with the public.

A major part of acting is the use of hands. Gestures strengthen the emotions. Being able to use the hands freely during the experience was important. Another requirement was for the actor being able to interact with physical props.

Different obstacles had to be overcome to get this experience to work. The hand-tracking solution had to be compatible with OptiTrack, have a long-range, the ability to interact with props and good battery life.

The Manus VR Gloves eliminate all of these obstacles. Our gloves are compatible with multiple MoCap systems such as VICON, Xsens, ART and of course OptiTrack. With an optimal range of up to 20 meters, no limits for interaction with props and 4-6 hour battery life the gloves were the perfect fit for the Jack VR-experience.

Baobab Studios is one of the worlds leading VR animation studios. Their goal is to make wondrous immersive experiences in fantastical worlds. With multiple award-winning animations, Baobab Studios paves the way to a bright future.

Baobab Studios: A Movie Experience Like No Other

Baobab Studios | A movie experience like no other

3D People are photorealistic human 3D models. Using them is the easiest and most realistic way to populate your 3D environments. 3D People are used for archviz, visual effects, VR or AR applications, games, previsualization and print media. They offer numerous benefits that make them superior to 2D cut-out people.

Renderpeople: Making Mind-Blowing Virtual People

Renderpeople | Making mind-blowing virtual people

T-HR3 is the third generation humanoid robot developed by TOYOTA, following the trumpet and violin-playing humanoids. Previous robots pursued the precise “positioning” of fingerings and movements to play an instrument. The new, evolved humanoid can flexibly and smoothly control the “force (torque)” of its entire body. The Advanced Synchronization System of T-HR3 is achieved by sharing this “force (torque)” with the Master Maneuvering System.

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