Motion capture requires special equipment and infrastructure that can cost upward of $100,000 — but scientists have created a smartphone app and combined this with an AI algorithm to do the same job.

The team developed MobilePoser, a new system that leverages sensors already embedded within consumer mobile devices to accurately track a person’s full-body pose and global translation in space in ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture — and it doesn’t require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors.