Vision 3.0: Cleaner AI motion capture, faster results

Rokoko Vision 3.0 is a fundamental upgrade of Rokoko's AI motion capture pipeline. The monocular AI solver has been rebuilt from the ground up, producing much cleaner motion data than the original Vision. It now lives inside Rokoko Create, Rokoko's unified motion creation web browser-based platform, alongside Text-to-Motion. It's no longer a standalone tool - it's part of a full motion production workflow.

At the same monthly price, Rokoko gives you significantly more motion processing than competing tools. At $10/month, Rokoko Basic includes roughly four times the processing of QuickMagic and seven times Uthana. The value gap widens at higher tiers. Beyond raw volume, Vision 3.0 is part of Rokoko Create, which also includes Text-to-Motion, motion editing in Rokoko Studio, and storage - you're not paying for a single feature, you're getting a full motion creation platform.

You can export your motion data as .FBX or .BVH files from Rokoko Studio, compatible with all major skeletons including UE5 Manny, HIK and Mixamo. These files work directly in Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini, MotionBuilder, and iClone.

Not at launch. Finger tracking wasn't a frequently requested feature among Vision users, so the focus for 3.0 was motion quality, processing speed, and workflow simplicity. If the community wants finger tracking, it's something we can explore in a future update. For finger capture today, the Smartgloves II remain the most accurate solution in the Rokoko ecosystem.

Both have been removed. For webcam live capture: more than 90% of Vision users were already recording their footage separately and uploading it as a video file, taking time to check framing, lighting, and performance before processing. Recording first produced better results, so we built around that workflow instead. The dual-camera feature is sunset approximately 30 days after the Vision 3.0 launch as the setup is still quite cumbersome, and the data quality of the new monocular solver is actually better than the dual-cam solution. Going forward, all AI motion capture in the Rokoko ecosystem happens through video upload inside Rokoko Create.

Rokoko Vision is a great entry point in the world of motion capture, as well as a handy tool for pre-visualisation. Even though its ease of use, low price point and data quality are very appealing, there will still be many situations where robust mocap tools like the Smartsuit Pro II, Smartgloves II and Face Capture are needed, for example:

1. Data quality: especially for more complex motions, inertial mocap tools, like the Smartsuit Pro II, provide higher fidelity capture.
2. Occlusion: Vision AI relies on a complete view of the performer to estimate the skeleton's position. This means that occluded limbs will translate in less good tracking capabilities, either because the performer is outside of the video frame or because the position of the body of the performer makes it more difficult for the AI to make an estimate.
3. Real-time vs post-processed data: with AI motion capture, post processing is needed to generate the animation file, meaning it's very hard (unless you cut some big corners) to generate the animation in real-time. This is not an issue with Rokoko's inertial mocap tools: real-time integrations are supported for all major 3D software.
4. Face and finger capture: even though video based face capture solution, like Rokoko Face Capture, are possible, this is not the case yet for finger tracking: a solution like the Smartgloves II is still needed.
5. Tracking space: background and lighting are important to capture a clear video (and thus a good animation), as is distance to the camera. Inertial tracking can offer more flexibility in this regard as well (the tracking area is as big as the WiFi range of your router and lighting or other environmental factors are irrelevant).
6. Multiple performer recordings: today, there are no convincing AI motion capture tools that can capture more than 1 performer in the same recording. With Rokoko's inertial mocap tools however, up to 5 performer's motions can be captured at once.