VICON DEBUTS ULTRANET HD

New Hardware Device Boosts Scalability and Flexibility for Vicon MX Motion Capture Systems

Los Angeles, CA (December 10, 2007)—VICON, developer of Academy Award-winning motion capture systems, today announced Ultranet HD, a new hardware device enabling customers to configure their VICON MX motion capture systems more efficiently and cost-effectively.

The Ultranet HD is the new core hardware for the VICON MX systems, and combines the functions of several separate devices into one small unit. In addition, Ultranet HD allows connection to GigE video cameras. For entertainment professionals, Ultranet HD comes customized with time code and genlock options to sync reference video and audio with mo-cap data.

“Ultranet HD allows our customers to configure their motion capture rigs more economically because a single unit can connect, power and synchronize up to ten MX cameras,” explained Robin Pengelly, Senior Vice President, Entertainment division, VICON. “Our customers in entertainment often have complex shoot requirements that employ tens if not hundreds of motion capture cameras. With two or more Ultranet HD units connected together, VICON motion capture systems can scale as project needs evolve and still deliver the signature accuracy that makes our systems the top choice for leading filmmakers and game developers.”

Ultranet HD can be tailored to meet a studio’s needs:

Ultranet HD Studio— equipped with time code and genlock options and a 4 channel audio card so that reference audio and video can be synced with motion capture data.

Ultranet HD— a standard configuration for customers who don’t require any additional options.

Ultranet HD not only minimizes space, cabling and power requirements during a motion capture shoot, it also enables users to sync high definition studio equipment at up to 23.976 fps and 24p as well as normal analog SD interlaced standards, allowing all acquisition devices on a production pipeline to run at the same frame rate. In addition, Ultranet HD uses GigaBit Ethernet to ensure that the VICON MX systems have the highest data rate and throughput efficiency of any mo-cap system available.

About VICON
Academy Award®-winning VICON is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, serving customers and CG animation applications in film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries. VICON operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters, a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for VICON’s service company House of Moves as well as 125 VICON MX40 cameras.

VICON is the largest holding of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image understanding solutions for the entertainment, defense, life science and engineering markets. Other holdings include Emmy Award®-winning 2d3 and newly founded Geospatial Vision Ltd.

VICON’s and OMG’s global clients include: life science leaders University of Pennsylvania, the VA Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Titleist Golf, National Pitching Association; engineering industry leaders Ford, BMW, Airbus, Lockheed, Pratt-Whitney, NASA, Caterpillar, International Truck, and Toyota; and entertainment companies Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, Vivendi, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and many others. For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, or www.2d3.com.

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