Apparently the software will support up to 6 motion controllers (PS Move and I think Wii controllers also) but I am unsure if that is for one actor or for their in-development 2 actor mocap. I was unable to get a good calibration with 3 PS Eyes and I gave up after a week and moved on to the Kinects. If someone tries the Eyes I would suggest reading the docs on the iPi wiki thoroughly and through the community forums to see if they want to try it.

I couldn’t get 4 PS Eyes to work on my laptop due to bandwidth issues.Įach Kinect requires its own USB controller and theoretically 2 PS Eyes can be run on a single controller however if your system takes up too much of the bandwidth on the controller you will have issues. My laptop was siphoning 20% on one USB controller for the touchpad which I had to disable and then add a Bluetooth mouse to get my mouse off the USB bus. I had issues attempting to set up the Kinects near 180 degrees apart. I ended up in a configuration less than 90 degrees which for what I was doing was ok, but for turning motions it was not optimal.īecause the trial for the Studio was only 30 days I waited until the last possible day to activate to cover the rest of the semester. Ipi mocap 2 software#Īn additional month to learn and use the software would have been helpful. The Studio is rather expensive so I didn’t buy it. Would be nice for machinima students to get a 3 month trial maybe, if iPi was willing to offer that. The captured video files can be absolutely huge.

When I changed from the PS Eyes to the Kinects I turned off the video feed and this reduced the size of the captured by a factor of 10. PS Eye or Kinect video capture files were about a GB a minute.

With just depth sensor info from the Kinects a minute was about 100MB.

Ipi mocap studio not supported