Vicon

Vicon (Vicon Motion Systems Ltd) is a British motion capture company headquartered in Oxford, operating since 1984 and describing itself as the world's number one choice in motion capture for over forty years. The company supplies optical motion capture cameras (including the Valkyrie, Vantage, Vero and Viper lines), Blue Trident inertial sensors and software: Nexus (life sciences), Shōgun (film and visual effects) and Tracker (engineering, VR). Vicon's solutions are used across life sciences (gait analysis, biomechanics, sports, clinical research), media and entertainment (film, TV, games, animation), location-based virtual reality and engineering — including robotics and autonomous-vehicle research, where precise mocap provides ground-truth data. Vicon maintains offices in Oxford, Denver, Los Angeles and Singapore, among others. The company is a subsidiary of Oxford Metrics plc, listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.