{"id":108762,"date":"2020-06-16T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/digitize-your-dog-into-a-computer-game"},"modified":"2020-06-16T15:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T22:03:17","slug":"digitize-your-dog-into-a-computer-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/digitize-your-dog-into-a-computer-game","title":{"rendered":"Digitize your dog into a computer game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digitize-your-dog-into-a-computer-game2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Bath have developed motion capture technology that enables you to digitize your dog without a motion capture suit and using only one camera.<\/p>\n<p>The software could be used for a wide range of purposes, from helping vets diagnose lameness and monitoring recovery of their canine patients, to entertainment applications such as making it easier to put digital representations of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/dogs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dogs<\/a> into movies and video games.<\/p>\n<p>Motion capture technology is widely used in the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/entertainment+industry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">entertainment industry<\/a>, where actors wear a suit dotted with white markers which are then precisely tracked in 3D space by multiple cameras taking images from different angles. Movement data can then be transferred onto a digital character for use in films or computer games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Bath have developed motion capture technology that enables you to digitize your dog without a motion capture suit and using only one camera. The software could be used for a wide range of purposes, from helping vets diagnose lameness and monitoring recovery of their canine patients, to entertainment applications such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}