We already had an opportunity to check out out Immersive Motion from Aiken Labs at CES , but now the nine-axis modular sensing system is making its strategy to Android and other mobile platforms, including iOS and Windows Phone . The more compact battery-powered server brings motion-controlled gaming to mobile environments, capturing position data from matchbox-size modular sensors you can tape to a wooden sword or Viking helmet for live-action outdoor role-playing, or on you paws and dome during a virtual jam session with friends, as an example. The mobile kit features a pair of wireless sensors with a 50-foot range that you may attach to literally any accessory or appendage, and is anticipated to sell for roughly $300 when it ships later this year. You’ll even be ready to connect as much as two smaller wired sensors to every wireless sensor, for approximately $50 a pop.
The kit’s price ticket makes it cost-prohibitive for all however the most hardcore gamers and devs (there’s an SDK available in addition), but Aiken hopes to make its flagship product cheaper if its capable of sell the kits in high volume. The tool has applications in other industries to boot, including research and Hollywood, where it usually is used as a (relatively) low-cost outdoor motion-capture suit. The early version we saw at E3 today is surely not able to head to production, but we’re still months far from a precise release, giving Aiken your time to enhance accuracy, and maybe give you the chance to minimize that price. Jump past the break to look the way it works.
Tim Stevens contributed to this report.
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