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This is a great way that various disciplines in sports, dance, martial arts etc. could be captured and preserved. A great first step. Adding in support for additional programming languages like say python could open this up to a wider audience of DIY mocap.

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Unfortunately, it appears this technology is made available only for research purposes¹)/people with an institutional email address.

Which means that the best way for DYI mocap that I know of is still getting hold of an increasingly rare Kinect One.

¹) https://gvv-assets.mpi-inf.mpg.de/xnect/?page_id=12

Is there a reasoning to limit the distribution to other researchers only?

It feels even more out-of-place considering most of the authors are affiliated with public institutes and likely benefited from public funding.

I actually thought this would be super neat for a poorman version of MS Kinect and hobbie gaming.

I'm always extremely skeptical of claims like this. For something with input this simple, it could be embedded into a web page and take arbitrary video to prove that it works as well as they claim.

I was thinking this. Perhaps the researchers have a buyer lined up, but were obliged to publish. So this way, they can at least have a place to start, if the tech leaks into the public domain, or finds it's way into some product.

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