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A MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM FOR EVERYONE

BARCELONA, SPAIN, July 28th, 2020 - The digital transformation has accelerated with the health emergency caused by COVID-19 and the virtual has taken an unusual leading role in our lives. In this context of digitization, Chordata Motion, the first open source startup to enable 3D digitization of our movements, arrived to Kickstarter. Great movie characters such as Gollum (The Lord of the Rings) or Caesar (War of the Planet of the Apes) were created with motion capture, a technology which was, until recently, restricted to large and powerful industries such as Hollywood. The innovative open software system developed by Chordata Motion allows its users to record, edit and transmit the movement of a person, animal or robot in real time. It is a versatile product with applications in very varied disciplines, such as VR, AR, VFX, sports health, rehabilitation, animation, video game development, music, or digital arts.

The startup from Barcelona launched its first crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter on July 1st to raise €35,000. They have already managed to raise 108% of the first goal and they still have 13 days of campaign left. They are seeking to finance hardware production, the development of a flexible and modular textile fixation system with which to attach the sensors to the body, and the certification of the product according to the European and American standards. Now that they have managed to finance 100% of their first objective, they are aiming for the expanded objectives. If they reach €50,000 the sensors and Hubs will be produced using a black solder mask. If they reach €100,000, they will add two sensors to each reward, so that the user has a more complete configuration for capturing human movement. If the margin reaches € 200,000, Chordata Motion will develop facial recognition software that would be integrated into their motion capture suit. Parallel to the crowdfunding campaign, the startup has been working for months in order to complete the development of a software that will allow movement to be captured directly from a smartphone, as well as in new integrations with video game programs like Unity, Unreal or Godot. All these improvements are part of its technological roadmap and can be consulted in detail on the company’s website.

They are not the only ones, but they are the first Open Source 

Chordata Motion is not the only motion capture suit, but it is the first of its kind in Spain and the only initiative of such extent with an Open Source approach. Just a decade ago, access to this type of suits was restricted to corporations or institutions with large budgets. Seven years ago, cheaper solutions began to appear, which generated a paradigm shift. Chordata Motion wants to go one step further by creating this Open Source technology in order to truly democratize it. Open source allows them to give total flexibility to the user: anyone with specific knowledge can access the code and modify it to adapt the system to the specific needs of their project.

Adaptive and Open Source technology

Chordata Motion makes flexibility the main strength of its system. The commitment to Open Source allows the user to adapt the software to the needs of their project without paying additional costs. At the same time, the system is designed to be completely modular, so each client can implement the number of sensors they need depending on the project they are working on. Modularity also makes it possible not only to capture human movement, but also that of an animal or object. Chordata Motion is not exclusively aimed at private users, as it can also benefit large companies that need to integrate motion capture with specialized software that may not be compatible with other mocap systems.

They have adapted their campaign to the post-pandemic scenario

The Spanish startup had planned the launch of their kit for the end of March 2020, but the health emergency forced them to postpone it. During the lockdown they worked remotely in the reformulation of the product in order to adapt it to this new scenario of health emergency and economic crisis. The flexibility of their technology allowed them to redesign the hardware offered in the rewards while adapting it to the technical and economic needs of the users in the post-pandemic scenario, all of this in just 3 months. The redesign maintains many of the benefits of the initial offer while allowing them to reduce the cost of rewards by € 100, thus adapting to the pockets of their users in this new scenario of economic recession caused by COVID.

Before this crowdfunding campaign, the startup already successfully carried out two Beta-Testing Programs, where more than thirty users from around the world were able to access the prototype version of the system to test it and provide invaluable feedback. Now for the first time, through this Kickstarter campaign, a Chordata Motion kit can be purchased at a price only available to those embarking on this co-production adventure, which has already raised 107% of its initial goal.


Additional Information

● Campaign website:  https://chordata.cc/pre-order/
● Main website: https:/chordata.cc
● Downloadable press kit:  https://bit.ly/2TFcRK1
● LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/chordata-tech
● Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/chordatamotion/
● Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/chordata.mocap/ 
● Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/chordata.mocap
● Twitter:  https://twitter.com/chordatamocap/

The first Open Source motion capture suit that transforms human movement into 3D is here to stay

BARCELONA, SPAIN, June 23, 2020 - The digital transformation has accelerated with the health emergency caused by COVID-19 and the virtual has taken an unusual leading role in our lives. In this context of digitization, Chordata Motion, the first open-source startup to enable 3D digitization of our movements, comes to Kickstarter. Great movie characters such as Gollum (The Lord of the Rings) or Caesar (War of the Planet of the Apes) were created with motion capture, a technology which was, until recently, restricted to large and powerful industries such as Hollywood. The innovative open software system developed by Chordata Motion allows its users to record, edit, and transmit the movement of a person, animal, or robot in real-time. It is a versatile product with applications in very varied disciplines, such as VR, AR, VFX, sports health, rehabilitation, animation, video game development, or digital arts.

The Barcelona startup launches a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter on July 1st to raise €35,000 from those seeking to finance hardware production, the development of a flexible and modular textile fixation system with which to attach the sensors to the body, and the certification of the product according to the European and American standard, in order to be able to market your suit. The campaign also establishes expanded objectives, if they reach € 50,000 the sensors and Hubs will be produced using a black solder mask. If they reach €100,000, they will add two sensors to each reward, so that the user has a more complete configuration for capturing human movement. If the margin reaches € 200,000, Chordata Motion will develop facial recognition software that would be integrated into their motion-capture suit. In parallel to the crowdfunding campaign, the startup has been working for months in order to complete the development of software that will allow movement to be captured directly from a smartphone, as well as in new integrations with video game programs like Unity, Unreal or Godot. All these improvements are part of its technology roadmap and can be consulted in detail on the company’s website.

Adaptive and open source technology

Chordata Motion makes flexibility the main strength of your system. Its commitment to open source allows the user to adapt the software to the needs of their project without paying additional costs. At the same time, the system is designed to be completely modular, so each client can implement the number of sensors they need depending on the project they are working on. Modularity also makes it possible not only to capture human movement, but also that of an animal or object. Chordata Motion is not exclusively aimed at private users, it can also benefit large companies that need to integrate motion capture with specialized software that a priori is not compatible with other mocap systems.

This way, they have adapted their campaign to the post-pandemic scenario

The Catalan startup had planned the launch for the end of March 2020, but the health emergency forced them to postpone it. During the lockdown, they worked remotely in the reformulation of the product in order to adapt it to this new scenario of health emergency and economic crisis. The flexibility of their technology allowed them to reformulate the hardware of the kits offered in the rewards to adapt it to the technical and economic needs of the users in the post-pandemic scenario, all of this in just 3 months. The redesign maintains many of the benefits of the initial offer while allowing them to reduce the cost of rewards by € 100, thus adapting to the pockets of their users in this new scenario of the economic recession caused by COVID.

Before this crowdfunding campaign, the startup already successfully carried out two Beta-Testing Programs, where more than thirty users from around the world were able to access the prototype version of the system to test it and provide invaluable feedback. Now for the first time, through this Kickstarter campaign, a Chordata Motion kit can be purchased at a price only available to those embarking on this co-production adventure, which is scheduled to start on July 1st. The specific time of publication will be revealed to those users who have registered in the form available on the website of their campaign: https://chordata.cc/pre-order/


Additional Information
  
● Campaign website:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chordata-motion/chordata-motion-first-open-source-motion-capture-kit
● Pre-order website: https://chordata.cc/pre-order/
● Main website: https:/chordata.cc
● Downloadable press kit:  https://bit.ly/2TFcRK1
● LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/chordata-tech
● Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/chordatamotion/
● Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/chordata.mocap/ 
● Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Chordata.mocap
● Twitter:  https://twitter.com/chordataMocap

Chordata Motion arrives on the market: the suit that transforms human movement in 3D

BARCELONA, SPAIN, March 5, 2020 - Chordata Motion is the first Spanish startup to enable motion capture through a suit with sensors, a textile system that holds the sensors to the body and a microcomputer. This startup based on Barcelona is about to officially launch its motion capture kits through a Kickstarter campaign that will be released in late March. This innovative open software system allows you to capture the movement of a person, animal or object and transform it into a 3D figure in real-time. 

Chordata offers a flexible system that has applications in very diverse disciplines, such as VR, AR, VFX, sports health, rehabilitation, animation, video game development or digital arts. Characters like Gollum, from The Lord of the Rings, were created with similar technology until very recently restricted to large and powerful industries such as Hollywood.

Chordata Mocap kits can be used to record, edit and transmit the movement of a person or animal by reproducing it in a 3D figure in real-time. At the moment the system works natively with Blender, the open-source 3D animation software, but the funds raised during the Kickstarter campaign will be partly destined to developing new native integrations with video games and VR platforms, such as Unity, Unreal or Godot. 

Another development that the founders seek to finance with this crowdfunding campaign is the possibility of capturing motion directly from a smartphone. In this way, if you want to make a capture in open spaces, you wouldn’t need to take your laptop with you. This minimizes the equipment required in order to carry out a capture session.

This Spanish startup takes this flexibility as the main value behind its system. Its commitment to open source technology allows the user to adapt Chordata Motion’s software to the needs of their project without paying the additional license costs that have become prevalent in other motion captures solutions. 

At the same time, the system is designed to be completely modular, so each customer can implement the number of sensors they need according to the project they are working on. Modularity also makes it possible to move beyond capturing human movement, as it also allows one to register an animal, machine or object. Chordata Motion is not aimed exclusively at private users, it can also benefit large companies that need to integrate motion capture with specialized software that a priori is not compatible with other mocap systems.

The startup has already successfully carried out two Beta-Testing Programs, where more than thirty users from all over the world were able to access the prototype version of the system, test it and provide valuable feedback. Now, for the first time through this Kickstarter campaign, a Chordata kit can be purchased at a price only available for those embarking on this co-production adventure, which is scheduled to begin in late March. The specific date and time of publication will be revealed to those users who have registered their pre-order through the form available on this site: https://chordata.cc/pre-order/

Main competitive advantages:
• Possibility to capture from any computing device, including your smartphone!
• Adaptable and scalable system (you can capture a human body, but also an animal, machine or object)
• First open-source motion capture system available on the market

About Chordata Tech SL
Chordata Tech SL was founded in Barcelona in 2019, after more than 4 years of research and development of the prototype. Its objective is to become a democratizing agent in the world of motion capture (also known as mocap). They do this through the commercialization of an open-source, flexible and modular mocap system, which can be acquired for the first time through the Kickstarter campaign, or even be self-built by any user.

Awards and recognitions
Chordata Motion has received awards such as the First Prize of the SpinUOC 2019, the Annual Entrepreneurship Program of the Open University of Catalonia; and has been chosen as a finalist in the Human-Computer Interface Challenge of Hackaday Prize 2018, the most important prize of the maker community.

The team
The Chordata Motion team is made up of professionals with a strong background in electronics, programming, business strategy, and communication. The idea of ​​the product arose from the need of the Tech Lead when he realized how unaffordable and inflexible the mocap systems available in the market were. This personal experience was what led him to conceive the software and hardware components of the system, and gives him a deep understanding of the needs of its users.

Additional Information
Campaign website: https://chordata.cc/pre-order/
Main website: https://chordata.cc
Downloadable press kit: https://bit.ly/2TFcRK1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Chordata.mocap
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chordataMocap
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chordata-tech
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGQzjqwQboY5oUKYOgxJubw/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chordata.mocap/

Press contact: Flavia Laurencich
Email: flavia@chordata.cc
Telephone: +34 661.718.104

Chordata Motion, the suit that transforms human movements into 3D, gets released

BARCELONA, SPAIN, March 5, 2020 - Chordata Motion is the first Spanish startup to enable motion capture through a suit with sensors, a textile system that holds the sensors to the body and a microcomputer. This startup based on Barcelona is about to officially launch its motion capture kits through a Kickstarter campaign that will be released in late March. This innovative open software system allows you to capture the movement of a person, animal or object and transform it into a 3D figure in real-time. 

Chordata offers a flexible system that has applications in very diverse disciplines, such as VR, AR, VFX, sports health, rehabilitation, animation, video game development or digital arts. Characters like Gollum, from The Lord of the Rings, were created with similar technology until very recently restricted to large and powerful industries such as Hollywood.

Chordata Mocap kits can be used to record, edit and transmit the movement of a person or animal by reproducing it in a 3D figure in real-time. At the moment the system works natively with Blender, the open-source 3D animation software, but the funds raised during the Kickstarter campaign will be partly destined to developing new native integrations with video games and VR platforms, such as Unity, Unreal or Godot. 

Another development that the founders seek to finance with this crowdfunding campaign is the possibility of capturing motion directly from a smartphone. In this way, if you want to make a capture in open spaces, you wouldn’t need to take your laptop with you. This minimizes the equipment required in order to carry out a capture session.

This Spanish startup takes this flexibility as the main value behind its system. Its commitment to open source technology allows the user to adapt Chordata Motion’s software to the needs of their project without paying the additional license costs that have become prevalent in other motion captures solutions. 

At the same time, the system is designed to be completely modular, so each customer can implement the number of sensors they need according to the project they are working on. Modularity also makes it possible to move beyond capturing human movement, as it also allows one to register an animal, machine or object. Chordata Motion is not aimed exclusively at private users, it can also benefit large companies that need to integrate motion capture with specialized software that a priori is not compatible with other mocap systems.

The startup has already successfully carried out two Beta-Testing Programs, where more than thirty users from all over the world were able to access the prototype version of the system, test it and provide valuable feedback. Now, for the first time through this Kickstarter campaign, a Chordata kit can be purchased at a price only available for those embarking on this co-production adventure, which is scheduled to begin on March 24th. The specific time of publication will be revealed to those users who have registered their pre-order through the form available on this site: https://chordata.cc/pre-order/

Main competitive advantages:
• Possibility to capture from any computing device, including your smartphone!
• Adaptable and scalable system (you can capture a human body, but also an animal, machine or object)
• First open-source motion capture system available on the market

About Chordata Tech SL
Chordata Tech SL was founded in Barcelona in 2019, after more than 4 years of research and development of the prototype. Its objective is to become a democratizing agent in the world of motion capture (also known as mocap). They do this through the commercialization of an open-source, flexible and modular mocap system, which can be acquired for the first time through the Kickstarter campaign, or even be self-built by any user.

Awards and recognitions
Chordata Motion has received awards such as the First Prize of the SpinUOC 2019, the Annual Entrepreneurship Program of the Open University of Catalonia; and has been chosen as a finalist in the Human-Computer Interface Challenge of Hackaday Prize 2018, the most important prize of the maker community.

The team
The Chordata Motion team is made up of professionals with a strong background in electronics, programming, business strategy, and communication. The idea of ​​the product arose from the need of the Tech Lead when he realized how unaffordable and inflexible the mocap systems available in the market were. This personal experience was what led him to conceive the software and hardware components of the system, and gives him a deep understanding of the needs of its users.

Additional Information
Campaign website: https://chordata.cc/pre-order/
Main website: https://chordata.cc
Downloadable press kit: https://bit.ly/2TFcRK1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Chordata.mocap
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chordataMocap
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chordata-tech
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGQzjqwQboY5oUKYOgxJubw/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chordata.mocap/

Press contact: Flavia Laurencich
Email: flavia@chordata.cc
Telephone: +34 661.718.104

Juancho Casañas

Bruno Laurencich

Lorenzo Micozzi Ferri

Launching of the Kickstarter campaign!

Chordata Motion, has reached its funding goal on Kickstarter’s crowdfunding platform

Lorenzo join the team and Chordata launches its 1st and 2nd Beta-testing Program

Chordata wins the First Prize of the Spin UOC, the Open University of Catalonia's annual entrepreneurship program

 Chordata is among the 20 finalists of the Human-Computer Interface Challenge on the Hackaday Prize

Flavia & Juancho join the project

Our Tech Lead starts the developement of his own mocap suit

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