Sony Japan introduced Mocopi on Tuesday, a suite of wearable motion-tracking sensors that capture users’ movements that are mirrored by virtual avatars in the metaverse or augmented and virtual reality platforms.

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Fast facts

• Mocopi has six bands that a user can wear on their ankles, wrists, head, and hips.
• It is expected to come with its own smartphone app and software development kit.
• “Mocopi creates highly accurate motion measurement with a small number of sensors, freeing VTubers and creators involved in film and animation production from the constraints of time and place,” Sony wrote in its press release.
• VTubers, which is short for YouTube Virtual Streamers, are Internet streamers who have risen to prominence in Japan…