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  • Week 5 Special Guest: MoCap for Parkinson Patients

    Week 5 Special Guest: MoCap for Parkinson Patients

    This week, we invited a special guest — Russell. It was such a meaningful experience for us to learn about how can we apply motion capture technology into helping people with special mobility need.

    Illustration: Ratna Sagar Shrestha/THT

    About Our Guest:

    At Mickey’s, we’re building products that can help movement disorders patients walk more efficiently. Our first product in development is a pair of compression shorts with sensors and actuators built into each leg of the garment.

    By monitoring the user’s gait and delivering a vibrotactile pulse at regular intervals during the user’s stride, our product provides an external cue that affords increased mobility to Parkinson’s disease patients.

  • Alexis Zerafa IDM Alum Featured on TRASH for her SparkAR Effects

    Alexis Zerafa IDM Alum Featured on TRASH for her SparkAR Effects

    We are proud to say that IDM Alumni Alexis Zerafa was featured on TRASH, a budding startup company co-founded by another IDM alum Anton Marini (also inventor of Syphon app).

    Alexis was featured for her Instagram Spark AR work and collaborating with TRASH to create 3 AR filters for TRASH. Follow Zerafa and click these links to unlock her HALO series: the basic halothe glitch halo and the drippy halo.

  • Week 4 Taking Your Motion Into Unity

    Week 4 we had students direct other students on what motion they wanted. Then taking that motion into unity.

  • Tech Kids Unlimited (TKU) Engages 42 Students Who Learn Differently in Music and Coding

    This past Sunday Sept. 22nd, TKU started their Sunday workshop with 42 amazing students in the new space 370 Jay Street! Tech Kids Unlimited (TKU) is a NYC-based not-for-profit organization that teaches computer science thinking and technology to kids who learn differently. Their mission is to open up the field of technology to students with disabilities, especially those with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to help them become the techies of tomorrow.

    With this new co-hort of students, they have 42 bright minds eager and ready to become those techies. Their program model includes a 3:1 student to teacher ratio along with a social worker and occupational therapist in the classroom. This allows a good support system between the students and the creative technologists from Integrated Digital Media. With this they can give students more support as they teach them scratch for coding and reaper for audio production.

    IDM is honored to host such an amazing program and be part of the world of accessibility they continue to foster!

  • Week 3 Recap of a in Body Motion

    Week 3 Recap of a in Body Motion

    Recap of how to capture human motion data in motive 3d.

  • Week 2 of Motion Capture Club

    Week 2 of Motion Capture Club

    Computer screen of human 3d model standing in A-pose.

    Getting people in suits! The first week was calibration and getting people excited. On week 2 we got students suited up and moving!