Noitom's Perception Neuron Opens New Doors to the Virtual and Physical World

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Noitom's Perception Neuron Opens New Doors to the Virtual and Physical World
The first truly affordable crowd-funded motion capture system is the talk of the industry as it not only creates new opportunities for smaller film studios and game developers, but offers a state-of-the-art research tool for sports and the medical field.

BEIJING, China, Aug. 20, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Following a successful launch at SIGGRAPH and the subsequent incredible reception from the professional community, Noitom is proud to announce that they sailed past their midway Kickstarter funding milestone within eight days.

"We have been overwhelmed by the support from everyone," explains Dr. Tristan Dai, the developer of Perception Neuron and co-founder of Noitom. "Our peers have been so supportive, but it is our pledgers on Kickstarters who are the most amazing. They send us ideas, promote the project and explain to us one hundred and one ways in which they will utilize Perception Neuron and that is the best motivation!"

Perception Neuron is an inertial sensor based motion capture system with WIFI transmission. Its uniqueness stems from the fact that it is modular allowing the tiny sensors to be relocated where they are needed. The Neuron sensors are also the smallest in the industry. Truly ground-breaking, though, is the pricing with complete packages ranging from $200 for 10-sensors to $550 for 30-sensors allowing you to map a complete body with detailed hand movements.

"What is incredible is what we are hearing from students, freelancers and small studios around the world who never dreamed they could afford this type of technology and who are telling us that Perception Neuron will open new doors for them both creatively and financially," says Dr. Haoyang Liu, CEO of Noitom. "We are also hearing from researchers and scientists who are getting this as a tool to measure body movements for biomechanics in rehabilitation and sports. There are also a lot of artists who want to use Perception Neuron for live performances. I really cannot wait to see the all these projects come together."

Perception Neuron is being funded on Kickstarter where Dr. Tristan Dai, the developer, is personally responding to comments and questions from backers. He has also been posting software beta versions and file samples on the update section as well as on the Noitom Facebook page. The Kickstarter campaign concludes on September 12
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Project PERCEPTION NEURON: Motion Capture, VR and VFX by Team PERCEPTION / NEURON — Kickstarter

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this one is cool too. imagine when combined..
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robotic arm powered only by human thoughts
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UPDATED : Wednesday, 27 August, 2014, 11:27am

 

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another cool tech startup from china

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Dexmo: an affordable mechanical exoskeleton system with force feedback for you to touch the digital world and captures your hand motion

Who are we?

We are a group of hardcore roboticists, with talents in mechanical engineering, computer science, software engineering, embedded systems, communications, design, and web & app development.

In March 26 2014, we founded Dexta Robotics, a robotics start-up that focuses on developing high quality but affordable robotics hardware that lowers the boundary of robotics and virtual reality. We believe that there is a lot of great talent in your creative minds; a lot of interesting projects you want to do. But it can be really expensive and hard to build your own robotics hardware. Our goal is to build this bridge for you.

A year ago, we noticed the lack of affordable hand motion capturing devices in the field of robotics and VR, so we started Project Dexmo. To further increase the sense of immersion, we also started developing ways of adding the force feedback on top of the exoskeleton system. Long story short, after 17 iterations and over 12 force feedback implementation tests, we are proud to say that Dexmo is finally ready for release.

As for our production ability, we are fully aware that a lot of very successful kickstarter hardware projects fail when it comes to production because they only start seeking manufacturing partners after they get the money. At Dexta Robotics, we do it a bit differently. We applied the principle of DFM (Designed-for-manufacturing), meaning we talk with our manufacturing partners before we design our hardware, including Dexmo. We understand what designs are easier and less expensive to produce and what designs should be avoided to reach minimum manufacturing difficulty. We can't guarantee that everything goes perfectly smoothly, but we will certainly try our best to deliver on time.