Vicon Acquires Facial Capture Firm Captive Devices (EXCLUSIVE)

Vicon has acquired Captive Devices Ltd, a Manchester, U.K.-based maker of head-mounted camera systems for markerless facial performance capture. Vicon is the motion capture arm of Oxford Metrics. The founding team at Captive Devices has joined Vicon effective immediately. Ninja Theory, Nant Studios, Animatrik and Deep Silver Dambuster Studios are among the studios that already…