Top 19 motion-capture Open-Source Projects

1. EasyMocap

   1 4 4,640 3.9 Python

   Make human motion capture easier.

   

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3. Low-Cost-Mocap

   2 2 2,363 7.5 TypeScript

   Low cost motion capture system for room scale tracking

   

4. SystemAnimatorOnline

   3 9 1,693 7.7 JavaScript

   XR Animator, AI-based Full Body Motion Capture and Extended Reality (XR) solution, powered by System Animator Online

   

5. ESP32-CAM_MJPEG2SD

   4 1 1,623 7.9 C++

   ESP32 Camera motion capture application to record JPEGs to SD card as AVI files and stream to browser as MJPEG. If a microphone is installed then a WAV file is also created. Files can be uploaded via FTP or downloaded to browser.

   

6. awesome-biomechanics

   5 4 986 7.1

   A curated, public list of resources for biomechanics and human motion analysis: datasets, processing tools, software for simulation, educational videos, lectures, etc.

   

7. amass

   6 1 961 0.0 Jupyter Notebook

   Data preparation and loader for AMASS (by nghorbani)

   

8. MiKaPo

   7 1 595 7.5 TypeScript

   Real-time MMD motion capture on Web

   

   Project mention: Show HN: Real-time webcam motion capture for MMD anime characters | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-06

9. metrabs

   8 1 575 3.4 Python

   Estimate absolute 3D human poses from RGB images.

   

10. MegaMocapVR

    9 8 430 5.0

    A SteamVR powered mocap solution for Unreal Engine

    

11. xrmocap

    10 1 412 3.1 Python

    OpenXRLab Multi-view Motion Capture Toolbox and Benchmark

    

12. AvatarPoser

    11 3 327 3.4 Python

    Official Code for ECCV 2022 paper "AvatarPoser: Articulated Full-Body Pose Tracking from Sparse Motion Sensing"

    

13. openbiomechanics

    12 1 303 3.8 Jupyter Notebook

    The open source initiative for anonymized, elite-level athletic motion capture data. Run by Driveline Baseball.

    

14. ViRe

    13 5 215 3.5 C#

    A open-source VR mocap studio built in Unity

    

15. MoCapAct

    14 1 210 5.0 Python

    A Multi-Task Dataset for Simulated Humanoid Control

    

16. KinectMocap4Blender

    15 1 206 0.0 Python

    A Kinect motion capture plugin for Blender

    

17. blender-retarget

    16 1 155 10.0 Python

    Applies animation from one armature to another

    

18. rerun-animation

    17 1 28 8.5 Python

    ➿A rerun plugin and tools for 3D animation

    

19. OpenISS

    18 1 23 6.8 C

    OpenISS -- a unified multimodal motion data delivery framework.

    

20. S2S

    19 5 3 7.7 Python

    Physics-audit engine for Physical AI. 15 biomechanical laws certified in real-time — safety gate for robot training pipelines and prosthetics. pip install s2s-certify

    

    Project mention: VLA learns how to act. S2S decides whether the motion is physically trustworthy | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-06

motion-capture related posts

• VLA learns how to act. S2S decides whether the motion is physically trustworthy

  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2026

• Physics-based validation for sensor data before ML training

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2026

• I Built a Physics Certification Layer for Motion Data — Here's What I Found

  1 project | dev.to | 5 Mar 2026

• A curated repository of biomechanical resources

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2024

• Open Source Motion Capture for Autonomous Drones

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024

• Enhanced sense of depth for mocap hands tracking (details on comments)

  1 project | /r/vtubertech | 6 Aug 2023

• Alternative to VUP?

  1 project | /r/vtubertech | 7 Jul 2023
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