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This is insane.🤯 Someone just open-sourced professional motion capture. The same tech behind every Marvel movie and AAA game now runs on any webcam. Free. The only thing it needs is a camera. You already have one. It's called FreeMoCap and it just became a GitHub link. The barrier...

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