SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...

Stop-motion is a captivating animation technique that brings inanimate objects to life through a series of captured ...

For most of the history of film, if you wanted to insert something into the picture that didn't exist, the camera had to be stationary. Motion tracking allows artificial objects to be inserted ...

Leap Motion’s newest motion-tracking software just got much more precise. Today, the company released its Version 2 (V2) software to developers in a public beta. The update allows developers to create ...

Animation has been captivating audiences for more than a hundred years. From classic forms like hand drawn and stop-motion, to cutting-edge techniques like motion graphics and CGI, animation has a ...

Late last year, Sony launched a mobile motion-capture system in Japan that worked with a companion app to create a VR avatar for such things as gaming or chat. Now the Mocopi system is up for ...

Leap Motion CEO and Co-founder Michael Buckwald announced yesterday that the company's advanced hand tracking that I had previewed at their offices last Fall is now in public beta for developers. From ...

Sixense might not be a household name, but its electromagnetic motion sensing technology crops up in the darndest places. The 1:1 tracking technology is used in medical rehabilitation and Japanese ...

This is just a bit of fun, but consider for a moment the range and depth of skills that went in to this amazing piece of work We weren't quite sure what to expect when we first saw this. It starts ...

As we send humans deeper into space for longer periods of time, habitat design is going to become a crucial part of mission planning. A clever new technology could help NASA figure out how astronauts ...