New motion capture studio

In the last few weeks my colleagues, Stephen Cockett, Yone Santana and I are setting up a new studio for motion capture and photography. Since the requirement for both is an open space, we believe they should work well together,  hopefully not at the same time.

I have worked with motion capture since about 1995. The first system was a magnetic motion capture system. Although it worked well, at times, the magnetic field required for motion capture was unstable and sometimes you needed a witch doctor to sort it out. I discovered Vicon optical motion capture system, and that was it for me.

We've had a Vicon motion capture system at Brunel University for about 8 years. We used V-Cams,  they were analogue, worked great for years but time and technology has moved on. New motion capture camera systems from Vicon, the Bonita and  TCams  are digital, and work with their new software Blade.  We are going with T10, the 1 megapixel camera.

To set up the room we've been dealing with project managers to set up the dual purpose room. First blacking out the room for photography,  then having scaffolding installed thanks to Lancelyn Theatre Supplies.  After the scaffolding we'll get Vicon in to install the cameras and software.  Exciting!

That's all for now

Easy fix for 3G problems after updating to FROYO

I upgraded my HTC Desire to Android 2.2, Froyo. After installation my wifi worked fine but I had no 3G. I fixed this problem easily. Go to settings - Wireless & networks - Mobile networks, then check to make sure your access point to your mobile network is enabled. Once I selected 3 as my access point I had 3G. I get 3702kbps download and 1646kbps upload at 1:30pm, not bad. I'll post my speedtest results on twitter from time to time.

It seems as though the update just switched off my access point, but now all is well.