Vicon is the motion capture arm of Oxford Metrics. The founding team at Captive Devices has joined Vicon effective immediately.
“This acquisition is a natural fit for Vicon and Captive Devices, culturally and technologically,” said Imogen O’Connor, chief executive of Oxford Metrics, Vicon’s parent company. “Vicon can now offer customers a more integrated, end-to-end body and face capture workflow that enables them to capture, analyze and animate human performance with even greater efficiency than before.”
Vicon was founded in 1984 and builds motion capture systems for use in life sciences, entertainment, location-based virtual reality and engineering. Its client list spans Dreamworks, Byte Dance, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Industrial Light and Magic, Lux Machina, Pearl Abyss, Sony, Ubisoft and Warner Bros. Oxford Metrics, its parent company, serves thousands of customers across more than 70 countries.
