International Space Station (ISS)

... to boldly go where no motion capture system has gone before

NASA Robonaut Program 2011

Partnership with Toronto Rehab Institute

Challenging Environment Assessment Laboratory (CEAL)

"Most advanced rehabilitation research facility in the world"

PTI lends expertise to unique subterranean lab project

January 04, 2011- Burnaby, BC, Canada – PhoeniX Technologies Incorporated (PTI) recently installed their Visualeyez™ 3D Active Optical Motion Tracking systems at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute’s CEAL underground laboratory, which is the centerpiece of iDAPT (Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation and Technology). This underground laboratory will be one of the world’s most advanced networks of rehabilitation research and development facilities when fully completed in 2011. Scientists will use the underground lab to study older people and those with disabilities as they encounter real-life challenges in a safe experimental setting. The goal is to develop practical solutions that help people live as fully and independently as possible.

PhoeniX Technologies Visualeyez™ 3D Motion Tracking systems will be installed in the three large chambers (or payloads) that provide different settings for researchers to study interactions between people and their environment. The chambers will be lifted on and off a motion simulator that can produce a range of motions like rolling, accelerating or pitching up and down―and creating different sights and sounds. One of the chambers is an “ice chamber” that can generate winter-like conditions, complete with sub-zero temperatures.

PhoeniX Technologies adapted their Motion Tracking systems to withstand the continuously moving environment, sub-zero degree temperatures and various other challenges whilst collecting good 3D Motion Data at all times.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.cealidapt.com/cealimages.html

http://www.cealidapt.com/partners.html

http://www.torontorehab.com/

About PhoeniX Technologies Incorporated
PhoeniX Technologies Incorporated innovates and manufactures Visualeyez™, a wide-angle, high speed and high-resolution active-optical 3D motion tracking system.  With its worldwide-patented enabling technology, Visualeyez™ systems are powerful 3D Motion Capture systems that collect 3D data under very challenging situations as well. For more information on PhoeniX Technologies and the Visualeyez™ II VZ4000 motion capture system, feel free to visit www.ptiphoenix.com.

World’s smallest full-featured 3D Active Optical

Motion Capture System Launched!

November 2, 2009 - Burnaby, BC, CANADA. –

PhoeniX Technologies Inc. (PTI) today announced the launch of their revolutionary VZ4050 Tracking system. This system offers all features currently available with PTI’s Visualeyez VZ4000, at half the form factor!

Effectively measuring only 62cm in length and weighing in at 2.2kgs (4.9lbs), the VZ4050 offers real-time active optical motion capture through their patented wide-angle technology (90 degrees in both pitch and yaw; 106 degrees diagonally at 5m). A single VZ4050 can be used to capture 3D data from up to 512 markers in real-time or multiple VZ4050 units (theoretically unlimited, tested up to 24) can be strung together to capture a larger area or motions from multiple subjects and objects.

The new small form factor at 62cm opens up real-time capture research possibilities in areas such as human factor engineering, Aircraft Cockpit pilot/instrument interaction, car and truck cabin driver/instrument interaction, in-vehicle crash test impact monitoring, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, etc. Coupled with PTI’s automatic and adaptive calibration capabilities provided through VZAutoCal, the VZ4050 sets a new benchmark in active optical motion capture technology.

Visualeyez 3D motion capture systems have been developed to meet the world demand for superior systems to deliver high quality 3D motion capture data in real-time. What differentiates PTI’s Visualeyez systems from others is their combination of exceptionally wide-angle high accuracy sensing, always real-time operation, high portability, light weight, and flawless intrinsic marker ID tracking capabilities. Today’s addition of the VZ4050 further makes Visualeyez a complete ‘turn-key’ family of systems.