CES 2014: Ohio Company is Bringing Military-Grade Motion Sensors to Gaming

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In a town called Portsmouth, Ohio (https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.73151,-82.999575&z=16&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=US&mapclient=embed&iwloc=lyrftr:m,16625398338995522652,38.731463,-82.999578), a company called Yost Engineering (YEI) Technology has quietly been making motion sensing devices for military, aerospace, industrial, robotics, and other commercial motion capture uses, includingrotoscoping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping) for the film/video industry. Now they want to bring this same technology to gaming. They tried a Kickstarter campaign in 2013 (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yeitechnology/priovr-get-your-ideas-moving), but only got a little less than 1/2 of their target amount pledged. They're going to do Kickstarter again, starting Feb. 14, 2014 -- and this time, they've been working on PR before asking for money. You can see what they're up to in gaming sensor development at www.priovr.com/ (http://www.priovr.com/). Or go to the main YEI Technology corporate site (http://www.yeitechnology.com/), which has a whole bunch of free downloads (http://www.yeitechnology.com/downloads) in addition to the usual product blurbs.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/01/13/2048231/ces-2014-ohio-company-is-bringing-military-grade-motion-sensors-to-gaming