Organic Motion captures imagination

Organic Motion demonstrated its computer vision technology in the new 'Dance Motion Capture' experience at the Sony Wonder Technology Lab (SWTL) in Manhattan, reports Business Wire.

The exhibit adapts Organic Motion's technology to give SWTL visitors the opportunity to use their own movements to bring Sony animated characters to life by controlling a life-size film or video game character in real-time.

The Lab's Dance Motion Capture exhibit marks the world's first public entertainment experience to incorporate marker-less motion capture, a new way to digitise human motion that is free of all markers or tracking devices. Leveraging Organic Motion's breakthrough OpenStage technology, the attraction showcases how people interact with technologies used to create 3D games and movies, and are transforming the way people use computers.

Computer chips made with new equipment from Cymer will be hundreds of times more powerful than today's, according to the semiconductor company, states Trading Markets.

The company said it has made the first delivery of its next-generation light source to the Dutch semiconductor company ASML.

The light source uses a technology called extreme ultraviolet lithography, or EUV. This etches circuit patterns onto semiconductor chips such as processors or solid-state drives for computers, and for many other electronic devices.

Cisco recently identified Smart Connected Buildings as its latest emerging technology, a key component in delivering on its vision for Smart+Connected Communities, one of 30 key market adjacencies the company has identified, says Business to business.

Smart+Connected Communities addresses the growing need for sustainable energy to meet the demand of increasingly urbanised populations by providing a network-enabled blueprint for successful smart cities of the future that run on networked information.

The solution builds on Cisco's networked sustainability platform to further utilise the network to increase energy efficiency, create new tools for 'energy-aware' city management, and enable economic opportunity and quality of life gains for citizens.