INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC ADOPTS VICON MX

Leading Visual Effects Company Upgrades to VICON’s New Top of the Line with 40 VICON MX40 Cameras

Los Angeles, CA (July 26, 2006) – VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture technology and a division of OMG plc, Oxford Metrics Group, announced that visual effects facility Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has upgraded its VICON motion capture system to VICON MX. A Lucasfilm Ltd. company, ILM is a leading force in visual effects production and has been a VICON customer for nearly a decade.

VICON MX systems offer new levels of precision, performance and practicality for motion capture within the entertainment field with CMOS sensors, on-board intelligent image processing and revolutionary 10-bit grayscale processing. ILM’s upgraded system, already installed on the facility’s campus at the recently opened Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco, CA, sees ILM updating to VICON’s new top of the line with 40 VICON MX40s, the world’s first four million-pixel motion capture cameras.

“VICON has been a valued vendor since 1996, when we installed our first optical motion capture solution – a VICON 370e system,” said Mike Sanders, Digital Supervisor, Industrial Light & Magic. “The company has consistently innovated its technology for the film and entertainment market, and with VICON MX it continues to be known for accuracy and performance as well as truly commendable service and support – assisting ILM in leading the industry for virtual cinematography.”

Said Jon Damush, Vice President and General Manager of VICON’s entertainment division: “We’ve been privileged to count ILM as a customer for the past ten years, harking back to some of the first and most memorable uses of motion capture in filmmaking -- from the droid battle sequence in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to breakthrough realism with a CG character in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Clients like ILM inspire us to aim high with new systems like VICON MX.”

“We have always had a strong relationship with ILM and are delighted that they have signaled their satisfaction with our products through an upgrade to a VICON MX40 motion capture system,” added Nick Bolton, Chief Executive Officer of OMG plc.

ILM has provided post-production visual effects services to the entertainment industry since 1975. Motion pictures, commercials, trailers, music videos and special venue projects have utilized ILM's unequalled artistry in techniques such as model making, matte painting, computer-generated imagery, digital animation and a variety of related processes required in the production of visual effects. ILM has been associated with fourteen movies that have earned the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and has been awarded seventeen technical achievement awards from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Recent projects at the facility include: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Poseidon, Mission Impossible III, Munich, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

About VICON
Academy Award®-winning VICON is 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 and 125 VICON MX40 cameras for VICON’s service company House of Moves.

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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