About

In response to the growing need for digitized human motions across various industries, our company is at the forefront of innovation, offering a comprehensive suite of tools and services designed to revolutionize human motion capture and creation at scale. The urgency of our mission is underscored by the substantial costs, intricate complexities, and widespread fragmentation plaguing the current market solutions. We bring the only one-stop-shop that accelerates 3D Animation workflows in terms of costs, time and manpower capacity. We offer affordable motion capture options for diverse use cases, tools for faster capturing with less takes to be captured needed and post-production services for minimizing manual editing, while generative AI offers further options and heterogeneity with respect to production requirements.

Solution & Product

Our core tech exploits a unified representation for multimodal, neural solving and produces a standardized, ML-ready output, something that still does not exist and the reason is the deep of the R&D and the amount of data needed for such solutions. We overcome the latter through our low-cost MoCap solutions along with inventions included to our IP. Moverse’s product comprises two main end-points, the MoCap Studio, a windows standalone application, and the web platform that provides the post-processing services and APIs. The former allows the users to set the optical system (camera placement, calibration, configuration) and orchestrate their captures along with real-time visualizations. The latter constitutes the control point where the users are able to further process their captures, from simple data exporting to the application's extra post-processing services (body estimation, motion refinements, re-styling, blending, etc.).

Innovation & Scalability

Our full stack is AI-based, while we have developed our own open-source Model Development Kit (https://github.com/ai-in-motion/moai) for building our models. We develop deep learning models for real-time motion capture inference capable of being deployed on central processing machines or on the edge, i.e. directly on the optical sensors. On top of that, in our post-processing services, we use generative models as priors to our solving. We reduce the resources needed for 3D animation production from 80-90% across the various 3D Animation stages, from motion capture to ready–to–use 3D animation assets. Our solution is end-to-end, ensuring smooth pass across the production stages, enabling 3D animators to be more creative by minimizing the tedious processes.

Traction & achievements

We secured our pre-seed back in January 2023 that allowed for the development of our MVP, including our IP (2 patents and 2 scientific articles in International Conferences) and capturing technology to ensure our data sovereignty, a simplified pricing model for our diverse offering and our sales funnel currently has multiple adopters/design partners in various stages (especially from XR, our beachhead market), while public cloud-based platform release is planned at the beginning of 2024.

Team & Why Us

The Moverse team comprises Senior Engineers (PhDs) with long AI experience and MoCap-related technology expertise, with past experience in developing such systems and technology solutions, in R&D and startup environments alike. The team has collaborated in numerous complex computer vision software systems and high-profile publications related to MoCap technology and data acquisition. Anargyros Chatzitofis, PhD, CEO, PhD in AI Motion Capture; Nikolaos Zioulis, PhD, CTO, Full-stack CVML Engineer and Scientist Spyridon Thermos, PhD, Product, Generative AI Engineer and Scientist Georgios Almpanis, Operations, Motion Capture and Synthesis We share a common vision, to make Moverse a world-leading player in the 3D animation-related Media and Entertainment industry.

Funding Needs

We are seeking 2 million euros to scale our market outreach, scale our team and add generative features for motion creation to our cloud.