VICON LOOKS AHEAD TO MOTION CAPTURE FUTURES AT SIGGRAPH 2005

Inventive Demonstration Highlights Industry-Leading VICON MX Motion Capture
Using Gesture Recognition and Control, as Depicted in the Futuristic Motion Picture “Minority Report,” from g-speak LLC

Lake Forest, CA (July 26, 2005) – VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture technology, announced it is providing an inside look at VICON MX motion capture – and the scope of future entertainment, engineering and computer-human interface applications made possible through high-speed, high-resolution hand, facial and full-body VICON MX motion tracking – at SIGGRAPH 2005. VICON goes behind the velvet rope from Booth #1300, August 2-4, at the Los Angeles Convention Center for demonstrations that will showcase VICON MX real-time precision and performance and some of the innovations seen in “Minority Report” made real.

The presentations, held twice each hour, will highlight the grayscale processing and up to four-million-pixel resolution of VICON MX systems, with software from g-speak to illustrate interaction with computer images based on gesture commands. Attendees are strongly encouraged to sign up in advance for a viewing time on the VICON Website, www.vicon.com/spots/siggraph2005.html as seats are limited.

“VICON MX takes customers beyond typical mo-cap, so we’re going beyond the typical SIGGRAPH mo-cap demo,” said Jon Damush, Vice President and General Manager, VICON. “In this real-time presentation, we will demonstrate how VICON MX 40 cameras enable new freedom for performers with high precision tracking of subtle nuances and expressions using tiny, non-intrusive markers. As we do this, we’ll simultaneously be showing one of the coolest new uses for motion capture with g-speak.”

g-speak is the first commercially oriented gesture recognition company, with solutions already in development in the defense and aerospace sectors. g-speak inventor and company founder John Underkoffler consulted on “Minority Report” to develop the gesture language used by characters to call up and sift through video material in that futuristic film.

“VICON MX cameras enable motion tracking of hands, fingers, faces and other tricky areas in real time with high fidelity,” said Kevin Parent, inventor and g-speak co-founder. “We looked at all of the competing technologies, but only VICON’s MX system provided the accuracy and real-time processing we needed to bring the gestural interface from science-fiction to reality.”

VICON MX systems, including the flagship four-million-pixel VICON MX 40 cameras, have rapidly become the new industry standard for real-time and off-line applications motion in film, television, video games, virtual prototyping, biomechanical analysis and more. In entertainment, VICON MX systems are installed at Moving Picture Company, Mainframe Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Curious Pictures, House of Moves and other facilities for the creation of 3D animation and performance capture animation in movies, television shows, commercials and games.

VICON recently announced VICON MX Bridge, a new hardware product that lets VICON users with older VICON MCam 2, MCam, VCam and SVCam motion capture cameras enjoy 3D precision benefits of gray scale native to VICON MX. This product additionally provides value and flexibility to VICON customers by allowing them to mix VICON MX and earlier-generation VICON cameras in the same system.

VICON also recently shipped Version 2.0 of its VICON iQ software, which now offers a complete real-time environment for setup, calibration and capture using VICON MX.

For more information about VICON, VICON MX or VICON’s demonstrations at SIGGRAPH 2005, please visit www.vicon.com.

About g-speak
g-speak LLC is a California limited liability company headquartered in its lab/office facility in downtown Los Angeles’s Industrial District. g-speak licenses its proprietary human gesture-based operating system to qualified licensee/development partners in the defense, air traffic control, medical imaging, security, motion picture production, video gaming, electronic display and other industry channels. Through its breakthrough human/machine technology, g-speak achieves superior, intuitive control and improved efficiency over complex systems increasingly overburdened with data, images and tasks. For more information about g-speak LLC, visit www.g-speak.com or contact Thomas Wiley at (323) 244-8366.

About VICON
VICON Motion Systems is a subsidiary of OMG plc (LSE: OMG) with global headquarters in Oxford, UK, and US headquarters in Lake Forest, CA. OMG subsidiary 2d3 Ltd. produces innovative visual geometry software deriving 3D data from moving images. Since 1984, VICON has been providing professionals with the latest tools to accurately capture the subtleties of three-dimensional human motion for research, medicine, sport, engineering, game development, broadcast and film. For more information about VICON, or to view a comprehensive list of worldwide distributors, visit www.vicon.com or contact +44 (0) 1865-261800 in the UK or (949) 472-9140 in the US.

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