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Vicon Launches New Product
Vicon Launches New Product.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 6523A OMG PLC 13 October 2009 \n \n13 October 2009\n\nOMG plc \n\n(\"OMG\" or the \"Group\")\n\nVicon Launches New Product\n\nNew generation Bonita camera is small, powerful and cost-effective\n\nOMG plc, Oxford Metrics Group (LSE: OMG), (\"OMG\" or \"the Group\") the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries is pleased to announce the launch of Vicon Bonita: a small, affordable optical capture camera for tracking and analyzing motion. \n\nLaunched by Vicon - OMG's motion capture arm - for use in the engineering and life science markets, Bonita is capable of capturing 240fps (frames per second) while being small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Vicon has also today launched Tracker: a robust object-tracking software providing unparalleled data accuracy for integration in 3D applications. \n\n\"Our 25-year history for technological innovations and our experience perfecting camera calibration and 3D reconstruction techniques has led to the development of Bonita and Tracker,\" said Doug Reinke, CEO and President, Vicon. \"These two very exciting introductions have been designed to be powerful, easy to use, cost-effective and are tailor-made for those working in industrial engineering, robotics, human factors engineering, virtual engineering and academia.\"\n\nBonita is Vicon's smallest optical capture camera and has been engineered to be powerful, accurate, reliable and affordable. It is easy to set up and accurate enough to capture images with positional accuracy down to one millimeter in a 4m x 4m volume.\n\nAlso commenting on the launch Nick Bolton, OMG Chief Executive Officer said:\n\n\"I am very pleased to see the launches of both Bonita and Tracker today. These are two products that share many of the same attributes. They're off the shelf and easy to get to grips with, they're capable of high performance and powerful accuracy, and they're also easy to integrate with existing PC hardware and other third-party software as well as cameras already in the Vicon range. The Vicon team and I look forward to demonstrating the capabilities of these products in the m...