New Studio Yields Most Detailed Motion Capture in 3D

Sports coaches often use video cameras to analyze athletes’ movements in order to improve their performance. A new multi-camera studio developed at Carnegie Mellon University promises to bring video analysis to an unprecedented level. In 1878, using 12 still cameras positioned along a racetrack, English photographer Eadweard Muybridge solved a much debated question: whether a galloping horse had all of its legs in the air at one point. 137 years later, using more than 500 cameras,...

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