Vtubers are a phenomenon that has intrigued and perplexed me over the years. Cards on the table, I do enjoy the odd Ironmouse song (I've had Cry for Me WA WA WA consistently in my rotation since it dropped), but I'm hardly an expert. The tech often intrigues me more than the personalities—and now that a YouTuber has seemingly created the best Vtuber rig ever, I think I'm about to become the anime cat girl of my dreams.
Before I start shopping for 3D artists and riggers to commission, let me back up a bit. Rather than using AI to track a body in space, DIY hardware creator Made By Dennis went all in on optical motion capture, setting out to build 'Hollywood Motion Capture from Scratch' (via Hackaday). Obviously, this technique is also heavily used in games, as you can see in the behind-the-scenes of God of War Laufey, where they did motion capture on a cube.
