I am the controller now: MIT engineers have created a 'second skin' that could one day track whole bodies in VR

Remember when they did motion capture on a cube ? Well, more specifically, they put actor Jack Quaid in a motion capture suit and then they put him inside a cube for his role in God of War Laufey. As charming as that cutting edge cuboid is, I think VR gamers and Vtubers are gonna be all over fresh research out of MIT.

Engineers at MIT have developed a sheet full of optical fibres that can digitally reconstruct its own shape even as it is flexed and folded. According to MIT News , the team reckons their tech could be fashioned into a garment that could then be used to accurately mirror your…