Show HN: A tool for motion-capturing 3D characters using a VR headset (opens in new tab)

I started to build something like this early last year, but got too busy with another pet project and having a baby. Here's some demos and notes if you're interested. https://twitter.com/convey_it/status/1433163282597171200

Any more on this?

As for hands - is it able to track hands and fingers only or also an object within a hand? I can see this being useful to 'puppeteer' a 3D object by hand used as a proxy of it... Or a simple object within a hand.

Outside of maybe a cliff-climbing game I struggled with finding a reason for buying a headset at all. This seems like a plausible use for animation.

I haven't much of a clue on motion capture. But, the capture I want to do requires feet, hands, face, shoulders, arms, knees, fingers, AND the ability to do it in any position. Curl up in ball. Roll over on the floor. I want to capture more than just a head and hands upright but AFAIK there's no solution under $20k.

See user name. if I want to make pr0n, I need to be able to capture those positions. Is there anything that can do it on the cheap?

I assume the hand capture (+ head position) doesn't give you enough to apply inverse kinematics reliably (i.e. better than VRchat), is that correct? It's a naive assumption on my part given that wrists aren't captured, but perhaps there are really smart ways to solve this. It feels like it could be a "next step" to have upper-body motion capture.