Movebox

Fol­low­ing on from Rock­et­Box, we were pleased to con­tribute to the Move­Box effort coor­di­nat­ed by Microsoft which pro­vides tools to ani­mate avatars. See:

https://github.com/microsoft/MoveBox-for-Microsoft-Rocketbox

The fol­low­ing paper was pub­lished at IEEE AIVR 2020 to coin­cide with the release of this toolbox,and gives more details of the fea­tures included:

Mar Gon­za­lez-Fran­co, Zelia Egan, Matthew Peachey, Angus Antley, Tan­may Rand­ha­vane, Pay­od Pan­da, Yay­ing Zhang, Cheng Yao Wang, Derek F. Reil­ly, Tabitha C Peck, Andrea Steven­son Won, Antho­ny Steed and Eyal Ofek (2020) “Move­Box: Democ­ra­tiz­ing MoCap for the Microsoft Rock­et­box Avatar Library”. IEEE Inter­na­tion­al Con­fer­ence on Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence and Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty (AIVR)

See also the pub­li­ca­tion page at Microsoft.

We will be using both tools in our upcom­ing work on social vir­tu­al real­i­ty and char­ac­ter animation.