Motion Capture Systems

Collect real-time synchronized finger motion capture data with your existing optical system

ShapeWrap III combines the power of Measurand's patented fiber optic sensors and inertial sensors to give unrivalled data quality. Used by universities, schools, and animation companies worldwide, ShapeWrap III Plus is the only motion capture system that has easy to use, fully integrated, hand and finger motion capture. Remember - motion capture without hands is lifeless. ShapeWrap III ….the motion capture system for those that don’t look good in spandex.

ShapeWrap III continued its installation momentum with three recent shipments. A full ShapeWrap III -Plus system with ShapeShoulders and ShapeHands shipped to the Young Developers Training and Support Center located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Another ShapeWrap III – Plus system for use in developing sign language technology was shipped to Bogacizi University in Istanbul, Turkey. ShapeWrap III was also chosen over the Moven and Gypsy Gyro systems in a competitive bid by the Institute of Science in Warsaw, Poland, and shipped in early February.

Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters honour eight outstanding Canadian innovators

Measurand has been awarded the NRC/IRAP’s Canadian Innovation Award for New Technology at Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters’ Eighth Annual Canadian Innovation Awards at the St. John’s Convention Centre this evening.
Measurand has been a customer driven technology innovator since its inception 15 years ago. Measurand has grown its core fiber optic technology into such diverse applications as Full Body Motion Capture and Geotechnical Measurements.

“Measurand will continue to develop new technology and new markets based on the needs of its customers.”, said Scott Thomson, Vice President of Measurand, who accepted the award on behalf of Measurand’s enthusiastic and dedicated team of employees.

“Given our current economic times, there perhaps has never been a greater time and a greater need for Canadian Business to be more innovative”, said Jayson Myers, CME president. “With an increasingly global economy, Canadian business must rise to the challenge to compete on the world’s stage.”

“This year’s Canadian award winners are stories that all of Canada must celebrate. They are the key to strengthening Canadian competitiveness and solidifying Canada’s place as a global leader in the future.”

Measurand recently spent 10 days in China working with its newest distributor, Longtek Company Ltd. LongTek excited the many customers visited on the trip, and the Measurand/Longtek booth was by far the busiest booth at the Multimedia Digital China 2007 tradeshow in Beijing. The Quest3D plug-in capabilities of ShapeWrap and ShapeHand also interested many Chinese customers. Longtek is now fully trained in ShapeWrap III and is ready to service Chinese customers for both ShapeWrap and ShapeHand applications.

Measurand is pleased to announce that it has completed its plug-in for ShapeHand to allow it to work in the Quest3D VR Edition 3.5. The next plug-in to be created will be for Quest3D Creative Edition, followed by a plug-in for Measurand’s ShapeWrap Full Body Motion Capture system for both editions. Our Software Department can do anything!

Congratulations to Dariusz Burdon of London England! He has won a ShapeHand in our contest that ran in 3D World magazine. Mr. Burdon is a postgraduate student at Kingston University studying intelligent 3D character animation. You can see some of his work at www.pierzak.com. Mr. Burdon can use the Shapehand to capture hand motions to add to full body data, as well as pairing it with the optical motion capture system at Kingston University to capture hand data while simultaneously capturing full body motion.

During a recent motion capture session Measurand invited a group of Film Arts students to take part by providing the lighting and cameras to film the session. As part of their program the students at CATAC must work with industry to gain experience in their field. These students set up the lighting and filmed the session. They will then edit the film to make a short collage of motion capture, animation, and live footage

Well…not everyone at Measurand. One of our Software Developers, Murray Lowery-Simpson, ran the Boston Marathon this week. He survived the most brutal weather conditions in the 111 year history of the marathon to finish 3600th out of about 20,000 runners. Congratulation Murray! You have inspired the rest of us to maybe some day in the near future possibly think about sort of putting down the burger and getting off the couch to maybe run farther than to the kitchen.

Measurand Inc. is pleased to announce that one of its distributors in Taiwan, Mirax Technology Corp., now has a ShapeWrap II motion capture system available for demonstrations. For customers interested in using ShapeWrap II for animation and game development, Mirax will now be ready to demonstrate the capabilities of the ShapeWrap system.

Measurand recently delivered a ShapeAccelArray (SAA) that will be used in horizontal mode this spring to monitor earth settlement during settling-in of a bridge abutment. The SAA is a mate to a vertical one installed last fall at the same site, and which has been delivering data wirelessly since then. SAA's can be used vertically for a full 3D shape and vibration dataset, or horizontally for 2D shape and 3D vibration. Motion Capture and XSI (02/14/07) Carl Callewart, Animation Director for Measurand Inc., with the help of the XSI Team , will be giving demonstrations on the process of bringing motion capture data into a game environment. See Carl at the Softimage booth (#618) at the Game Developers Conference held in San Fransisco this coming March.

Motion-capture technology arrives at the Aesthetic Technologies Lab, at Ohio University, inspiring cross-disciplinary research and a chance for the School of Dance to go digital

See the news story at Ohio University Outlook

ShapeHand is quickly spanning the globe. Curtin University of Technology of Perth, Australia, has recently purchased a ShapeHand for use in a research project in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Abdullah Al Dalati of the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, recently conducted a project using the ShapeHand from Measurand. The project focused on Automatic Sign Language Recognition (ASLR). ASLR is the automatic recognition of hand and arm gestures performing sign language using computers. The project won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's Best Project Award among all fourth year projects.

Three Measurand ShapeAccelArrays were used recently for earthquake measurements in the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Facility at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. The arrays of MEMS sensors measured 3D soil shape and vibration during shaker table tests.

Measurand is pleased to report two more installations of its ShapeClaw and ShapeHand products in an MRI environment. Both installations are in North America and will soon be operating in research projects.

Measurand will attend the GDC being held in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 7 - Friday, March 9, 2007, at the Moscone Convention Center. Measurand will be demonstrating its ShapeHand motion capture technology and showing how to take data from the ShapeHand into game engines.

Measurand is pleased to report that in January it delivered two ShapeWrap II Motion Capture systems to Spanish speaking customers, one in Madrid, Spain, and one in Lima, Peru. One system will be used by a school and the other by an animation studio.

Measurand recently sold the ShapeHand product for use in a live TV production. The ShapeHands will be used in conjunction with the Motion Analysis Corporation's optical motion capture system. See http://www.motionanalysis.com/about_mac/starjack.html for more details on the project.

Measurand is pleased to report that they will have a booth at the 2007 Geo Denver conference. Geo-Denver 2007 will provide professionals and students in all specialty fields with information about innovative and emerging technologies needed to advance geotechnical engineering and related disciplines. Measurand will be demonstrating its ShapeAccelArray product and discussing data from installations of the product in various parts of the world.

Lee Danisch, President of Measurand Inc., will present information on Measurand's ShapeAccelArray product at the TRB Meeting to be held in Washington, D.C., January 21-25, 2007. For further information on the committee meetings where the presentations will take place, please contact Mr. Bev Stymiest, Bev@Measurand.com .



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	See the Three Dimensions of ShapeHand at Siggraph2008, Booth 1130 Add quality finger motion capture to your existing mocap data Collect real-time synchronized finger motion capture data with your existing optical system Capture real-time finger data with ShapeWrap III Plus ShapeWrap III combines the power of Measurand's patented fiber optic sensors and inertial sensors to give unrivalled data quality. Used by universities, schools, and animation companies worldwide, ShapeWrap III Plus is the only motion capture system that has easy to use, fully integrated, hand and finger motion capture. Remember - motion capture without hands is lifeless. ShapeWrap III ….the motion capture system for those that don’t look good in spandex. ShapeWrap III Ships to Eastern Asia and Europe (Feb, 2008) ShapeWrap III continued its installation momentum with three recent shipments. A full ShapeWrap III -Plus system with ShapeShoulders and ShapeHands shipped to the Young Developers Training and Support Center located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Another ShapeWrap III – Plus system for use in developing sign language technology was shipped to Bogacizi University in Istanbul, Turkey. ShapeWrap III was also chosen over the Moven and Gypsy Gyro systems in a competitive bid by the Institute of Science in Warsaw, Poland, and shipped in early February. *Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters honour eight outstanding Canadian innovators* *St. John’s, October 22, 2007: Measurand has been awarded the NRC/IRAP’s Canadian Innovation Award for New Technology at Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters’ Eighth Annual Canadian Innovation Awards at the St. John’s Convention Centre this evening. Measurand has been a customer driven technology innovator since its inception 15 years ago. Measurand has grown its core fiber optic technology into such diverse applications as Full Body Motion Capture and Geotechnical Measurements. “Measurand will continue to develop new technology and new markets based on the needs of its customers.”, said Scott Thomson, Vice President of Measurand, who accepted the award on behalf of Measurand’s enthusiastic and dedicated team of employees. “Given our current economic times, there perhaps has never been a greater time and a greater need for Canadian Business to be more innovative”, said Jayson Myers, CME president. “With an increasingly global economy, Canadian business must rise to the challenge to compete on the world’s stage.” “This year’s Canadian award winners are stories that all of Canada must celebrate. They are the key to strengthening Canadian competitiveness and solidifying Canada’s place as a global leader in the future.” Click here to see the full list of Award Winnerss! ShapeWrap III Visits China Measurand recently spent 10 days in China working with its newest distributor, Longtek Company Ltd. LongTek excited the many customers visited on the trip, and the Measurand/Longtek booth was by far the busiest booth at the Multimedia Digital China 2007 tradeshow in Beijing. The Quest3D plug-in capabilities of ShapeWrap and ShapeHand also interested many Chinese customers. Longtek is now fully trained in ShapeWrap III and is ready to service Chinese customers for both ShapeWrap and ShapeHand applications. Measurand Gives Quest 3D a Hand(06/11/07) Measurand is pleased to announce that it has completed its plug-in for ShapeHand to allow it to work in the Quest3D VR Edition 3.5. The next plug-in to be created will be for Quest3D Creative Edition, followed by a plug-in for Measurand’s ShapeWrap Full Body Motion Capture system for both editions. Our Software Department can do anything! We Have a Winner!(06/04/07) Congratulations to Dariusz Burdon of London England! He has won a ShapeHand in our contest that ran in 3D World magazine. Mr. Burdon is a postgraduate student at Kingston University studying intelligent 3D character animation. You can see some of his work at www.pierzak.com. Mr. Burdon can use the Shapehand to capture hand motions to add to full body data, as well as pairing it with the optical motion capture system at Kingston University to capture hand data while simultaneously capturing full body motion. Measurand Goes to School(05/02/07) During a recent motion capture session Measurand invited a group of Film Arts students to take part by providing the lighting and cameras to film the session. As part of their program the students at CATAC must work with industry to gain experience in their field. These students set up the lighting and filmed the session. They will then edit the film to make a short collage of motion capture, animation, and live footage Measurand Runs the Marathon(04/19/07) Well…not everyone at Measurand. One of our Software Developers, Murray Lowery-Simpson, ran the Boston Marathon this week. He survived the most brutal weather conditions in the 111 year history of the marathon to finish 3600th out of about 20,000 runners. Congratulation Murray! You have inspired the rest of us to maybe some day in the near future possibly think about sort of putting down the burger and getting off the couch to maybe run farther than to the kitchen. Measurand Expands Demonstration Capabilities In Asia (03/26/07) Measurand Inc. is pleased to announce that one of its distributors in Taiwan, Mirax Technology Corp., now has a ShapeWrap II motion capture system available for demonstrations. For customers interested in using ShapeWrap II for animation and game development, Mirax will now be ready to demonstrate the capabilities of the ShapeWrap system. Flat Earth Society (03/04/07) Measurand recently delivered a ShapeAccelArray (SAA) that will be used in horizontal mode this spring to monitor earth settlement during settling-in of a bridge abutment. The SAA is a mate to a vertical one installed last fall at the same site, and which has been delivering data wirelessly since then. SAA's can be used vertically for a full 3D shape and vibration dataset, or horizontally for 2D shape and 3D vibration. Motion Capture and XSI (02/14/07) Carl Callewart, Animation Director for Measurand Inc., with the help of the XSI Team , will be giving demonstrations on the process of bringing motion capture* data into a game environment. See Carl at the Softimage booth (#618) at the Game Developers Conference held in San Fransisco this coming March. Dancing with Motion Capture (02/10/07) Motion-capture technology arrives at the Aesthetic Technologies Lab, at Ohio University, inspiring cross-disciplinary research and a chance for the School of Dance to go digital See the news story at Ohio University Outlook G'Day Mate (02/05/07) ShapeHand is quickly spanning the globe. Curtin University of Technology of Perth, Australia, has recently purchased a ShapeHand for use in a research project in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. ShapeHand Wins Award (02/01/07) Abdullah Al Dalati of the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, recently conducted a project using the ShapeHand from Measurand. The project focused on Automatic Sign Language Recognition (ASLR). ASLR is the automatic recognition of hand and arm gestures performing sign language using computers. The project won the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's Best Project Award among all fourth year projects. SAA at University at Buffalo (01/31/07) Three Measurand ShapeAccelArrays were used recently for earthquake measurements in the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Facility at the University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. The arrays of MEMS sensors measured 3D soil shape and vibration during shaker table tests. Motion Capture in MRI (01/29/07) Measurand is pleased to report two more installations of its ShapeClaw and ShapeHand products in an MRI environment. Both installations are in North America and will soon be operating in research projects. Hand Motion Capture at GDC (01/24/07) Measurand will attend the GDC being held in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 7 - Friday, March 9, 2007, at the Moscone Convention Center. Measurand will be demonstrating its ShapeHand motion capture technology and showing how to take data from the ShapeHand into game engines. ShapeWrap Speaks Spanish (01/22/07) Measurand is pleased to report that in January it delivered two ShapeWrap II Motion Capture systems to Spanish speaking customers, one in Madrid, Spain, and one in Lima, Peru. One system will be used by a school and the other by an animation studio. ShapeHand Goes Live (01/15/07) Measurand recently sold the ShapeHand product for use in a live TV production. The ShapeHands will be used in conjunction with the Motion Analysis Corporation's optical motion capture system. See http://www.motionanalysis.com/about_mac/starjack.html for more details on the project. Measurand Will Attend Geo Denver 2007 (01/15/07) Measurand is pleased to report that they will have a booth at the 2007 Geo Denver conference. Geo-Denver 2007 will provide professionals and students in all specialty fields with information about innovative and emerging technologies needed to advance geotechnical engineering and related disciplines. Measurand will be demonstrating its ShapeAccelArray product and discussing data from installations of the product in various parts of the world. Measurand Will Present SAA at 86th Annual TRB in Washington, DC(01/15/07) Lee Danisch, President of Measurand Inc., will present information on Measurand's ShapeAccelArray product at the TRB Meeting to be held in Washington, D.C., January 21-25, 2007. For further information on the committee meetings where the presentations will take place, please contact Mr. Bev Stymiest, Bev@Measurand.com .
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