The FreeMoCap Project (freemocap.bsky.social)

Everyone has a reason to record human movement. We want to help them do it. ✨💀✨ (🔊Sound on!) freemocap.org github.com/freemocap/free… #motioncapture #Blender3d #markerless #opensouce #openscience #freesoftware #machinelearning #computervision #biomechanics #monke

Put together this simple 60 second video submission for the Dynamic Walking 2026 conference and thought it was fun enough to share! #freemocap #mocap #robotics #biomechanics #dw26 #dynamicwalking

After five years since the foundation of FreeMoCap, our inaugural State of the Skelly address stream was a success! This communicates to our amazing community what we've accomplished so far, and what the roadmap for 2026 will be. Archived stream here: youtube.com/watch?v=VJrwao…

Join us for the 2026 State of the Skelly Address Tue Feb 3rd from 6-8pm Eastern! This event will include a 1-hour presentation on the current state and future plans for the FreeMoCap Project, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. #freemocap #blender #mocap #foss

@ultimape @KearnuLarsen IMU suits are the 8-track of motion capture. Middle child tech that's a huge pain to work with Give us a shot! We basically do what you describe (multiview mediapipe), but with a lot of extra machinery to ensure high quality kinematics. Join the discord and ask for help!

@freemocap @KearnuLarsen Would this be good for tracking gait stability changes over time with disorders like Mulitple Sclerosis? I've been looking at IMUs but the drift seems to make them non-starters. I've been thinking about multi-view reconstruction with mediapipe's pose tools.

Free and open source markerless motion capture of a runner on a treadmill! Reconstructed from 6 webcams using FreeMoCap v1.7.2 #freemocap #blender #motioncapture #mocap #animation #biomechanics

@KearnuLarsen SCAIL looks cool, but it seems to be targetting nice-looking rendered output rather than empirically valid kinematic data. FreeMoCap is built as a scientific tool, so there a number of potential ML-assisted clean up steps that we skip bc they are not verifiably truth preserving

@freemocap But the SCAIL model for example gives you pretty good tracking, or no?

@JoanieLemercier Not yet! This was from freemocap v1.7.2 - We're working on getting FreeMoCap v2 ready for (open) alpha. It supports realtime reconstruction! V2 should be coming online some time Q1/Q2 2026. It currently lives on the `/development` branch of the freemocap github repo

@freemocap wait, is this realtime ???

Everyone has a reason to record human movement. We want to help them do it. ✨💀✨ (🔊Sound on!) freemocap.org github.com/freemocap/free… #motioncapture #Blender3d #markerless #opensouce #openscience #freesoftware #machinelearning #computervision #biomechanics #monke

@KearnuLarsen It works with two cameras, its more accurate with six. We recommend three cameras for most purposes. We support single camera tracking, but the 3d data that comes out is garbage (even with new trackers). You need multiview triangulation to produce scientifically valid 3d data

@freemocap But you should be able to do it with just 2 cameras. Heck, even one with the accuracy of today's AI depth-estimation models.

@Lilien_RIG has been doing some amazing stuff combining our @freemocap output with #AI #imagegen to create really cool pieces combining direct empirically measured #mocap data with #GenerativeAI - Incredible work 💀🤖✨

They also don't know i edited the original #meme image #freemocap #mocap #ai #motioncapture #animation #foss #opensource #openscience

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v1.1!

Check out this wonderful tutorial our wonderful SkelleFriend `ajc27` made and posted in our #discord server: I love #FOSS ❤️💀✨ This tutorial shows you how to process the test data we provide along with the base software buff.ly/3I2cmTC

New docs! freemocap.github.io/documentation #free-open-source #opensouce #documentation #writerside #markdown

Happy (belated) Christmas (and other Saturnalia adjacent holidays)! 💀 ❤️ 🍉 🎄 ✨ (video by @ajc27 aka @fluxrenders on YT)

Test test - this thing on? Definitely related - Does anyone know of a viable #free-open-source "auto-post to a bunch of different social pages at once" option? Seems like that should just be a matter of a `json` full of credentials and bunch of API calls, right?

Come see the FreeMoCap Foundation at #SfN2023 Come be data! Come be Skelly! Exhibitor Booth #2933 #opensource #openscience #neuroscience #SfN23 #SF

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