BOUJOU BRINGS NEW INNOVATION TO VICON

Matchmoving pioneer joins motion capture leader

26 March 2009, Oxford UK: Vicon, developer of motion capture and image understanding systems, for the entertainment, life science and defence industries, has today announced that boujou, formerly a product of sister company 2d3, will now become part of Vicon.

The move follows the increasing alignment in markets seen by 2d3 and Vicon, both subsidiaries of Oxford Metrics Group Plc (OMG). boujou will continue to benefit from cutting edge vision science development as 2d3 technology feeds back into boujou evolution.

Douglas Reinke CEO and President at Vicon said: “As both 2d3 and Vicon grow and develop, we can feed off each company’s strengths and improve the way in which we serve our customers.

“This is an exciting time for Vicon, and we’re pleased we can offer our Vicon customers the benefit of the amazing technology developed by 2d3 inside the market leading boujou product.”

For more information please visit www.vicon.com/boujou

 

About VICON

Academy Award®-winning Viconis the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, serving customers and CG animation applications in film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries.  Vicon operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters, a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for Vicon's service company House of Moves as well as over 250 Vicon F40 cameras.

Vicon is the largest holding of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image understanding solutions for the entertainment, defense, life science and engineering markets.  Other holdings include Emmy Award®-winning 2d3 and newly founded Geospatial Vision Ltd.

Vicon’s and OMG’s global clients include: life science leaders University of Pennsylvania, the VA Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Titleist Golf, National Pitching Association; engineering industry leaders Ford, BMW, Airbus, Lockheed, Pratt-Whitney, NASA, Caterpillar, International Truck, and Toyota; and entertainment companies Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Vivendi, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and many others.  For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, or www.2d3.com.

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