It's easy to monitor something that is easy to measure
2023-12-06
With Operation Transformation due to return to RTÉ, the debate starts... Why focus on body weight? Why not have underweight contestants?
Well, weight is easy to measure. And if you can measure it, you can monitor it.
Weight is being used as a proxy for health. Admittedly they also use waist size and other measurements, but a lot of the focus is on size.
Is there something else that could be measured on the Vision Independent Productions show? Like the ability for someone to move and their flexibility? If only we could measure it accurately, he said while gesturing to the motion capture system before him.
See, it's not just for animation.
Without a motion capture system, body movement is a mix of eyeball engineering and attaching goniometers to your subject, to measure the angle of knee flexion. It's hard. Or use a marker based system, which takes ages to set-up.
Our Captury Markerless Motion Capture System can accurately map a subject's body movement, and can chart the results. And repeat the tests to track progress.
Since it's markerless, it takes a few seconds to start the tracking. This means that an Operation Transformation Leader could complete their tests in about half the time it takes to put on the markers.
This means that it is possible to quantify the progress, or regression of the mobility of the leaders through their journey on the show.
This changes the show from how the leaders look to how they move through the world. In a turn of social responsibility, it allows for body positivity by measuring the change in body physicality.
It's easy to monitor something that is easy to measure. And sometimes technology arrives that makes the hard to measure, very easy.
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