Organic Motion uses motion capture to help sell high-end bikes
Capturing motion is a technology perfected for movie special effects and video games. It makes it a lot easier to create a computer-generated character if the artist has access to real-world character movement. Organic Motion has done well selling motion-capture systems for such purposes.
But today it’s about to embark on a promising new market in retail sales. The New York company is announcing that Swiss high-performance bike maker BMC will use Organic Motion’s technology to… Continue Reading
Roundup: Google’s Postini, Media world on fire, Meet-Me, and more
Here’s a summary of the latest action:
1) Google integrates Postini
2) Record M&A in media industry
3) Japanese virtual world Meet-Me
4) Ballmer says Facebook a fad
5) Boing Boing TV
6) Utility computing and video delivery start-ups continue to get funding
Google integrates Postini – Nearly three months after buying Postini for $625 million, Google has integrated the company’s security features into Gmail and is offering them to businesses. Its intention is to challenge Microsoft and other software companies that sell… Continue Reading