I went body-in with Sony’s new mocopi Professional movement seize system with 12 factors of physique monitoring at GDC 2025.
The mocopi Professional system from Sony goals to raise its physique monitoring system past the six factors of the bottom system by including six extra. It integrates with Sony’s XYN Movement Studio, a movement seize pipeline supposed for each skilled manufacturing and VTubers.
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That mentioned, the opposite fascinating use case for mocopi Professional is full physique monitoring for VR. VRChat and Resonite customers who wish to spend extraordinary quantities of time in VR wish to convey their full our bodies in with the very best potential constancy, and so I suited up and put the system to the check at GDC.
For readers who may be unaware of what Sony’s mocopi system is or does, these sensors connect to straps on the physique to trace actions in supported functions or video games utilizing the mocopi VR app on Steam, or to be used with the XYN Movement Studio software program and headset answer Sony lately revealed at CES 2025.
Introduced in 2022 and launched in 2023, Sony’s mocopi sensors initially required a smartphone to function with SteamVR. In a latest main replace, the need for the smartphone was eradicated, permitting you to attach the trackers on to a PC for full physique monitoring in appropriate video games and functions.
Mocopi is each modular and expandable. For newcomers eager to expertise full physique monitoring in functions like VRChat, the “VR Package” priced at round $560 is their start line for a direct PC connection.
This technique presents six sensors, offering full-body monitoring, which Sony says needs to be “good-enough” for many customers, not less than in keeping with the consultant on the demo session I attended. There’s an add-on package accessible for people who purchased the unique mocopi system meant to attach by way of cellular gadgets priced round $730. Going from six to 12 potential monitoring factors ought to permit for higher accuracy and extra exact translation of physique positions.
Testing The mocopi Sensors
Through the hands-on demonstration, different contributors opted for making easy motions resembling waving their arms round or strolling a number of steps throughout the room. However I wished to check the system extra completely.
Calibration and first check
I tried military crawling, soar kicks, and even pretended to be a quarterback scrambling within the pocket making an attempt to land the proper landing go.
Recalibration on account of tracker motion
I noticed the monitoring system sometimes slip out of place throughout this aggressive testing. If the strap slips misplaced in any approach on my physique, it appeared sufficient to confuse the system and set off the necessity for a recalibration. That is a fast course of, however one which might be annoying when you needed to do it a number of instances throughout a play session. I believe that for high-intensity actions, mocopi Professional would possibly want a extra strong harnessing system to make sure dependable monitoring.
Total, although, I used to be impressed testing mocopi Professional, and it appeared to have strong efficiency to my eyes. After all, incorporating Sony’s software program ecosystem into the workflow of knowledgeable can be a completely completely different query.
Excessive-intensity testing.
After the demonstration, Sony supplied us with a mocopi Professional evaluation package that I’ve despatched off to our Editor-in-Chief, Ian Hamilton for additional analysis. Regulate UploadVR.com for Ian’s upcoming insights on how the mocopi Professional performs in his house.
We additionally talked about my expertise with this technique on our weekly VR Gamescast so when you missed it, you’ll be able to see the replay right here:
