measurement unit founded 2000 headquarters enschede netherlands website www.xsens.com xsens technologies b.v. or xsens is a supplier of 3d motion capture products based upon miniature mems inertial sensor technology . the company has created intellectual property in the field of multi sensor data fusion algorithms combining inertial sensors with aiding technologies such as gps rf positioning and biomechanical modeling . xsens is a fairchild semiconductor company an industry icon delivering power solutions for the mobile industrial cloud automotive lighting and computing industries . xsens has offices in enschede headquarter the netherlands and los angeles california . contents 1 history 2 projects 3 productions 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in 2000 by casper peeters and per slycke both university of twente graduates . following work in measurement of the performance of athletes they specialized in sensor technologies and sensor fusion algorithms . the company developed inertial measurement units or ahrs mti series and mtx and human movement measurement systems a complete wireless system mtw kit the successor of the xbus kit . in 2007 xsens introduced an inertial motion capture system called moven renamed xsens mvn 1 in 2009 . xsens won the silver king willem i award highgrowth award overijssel innovation award and was listed in the deloitte fast 50 netherlands deloitte fast 500 emea list of fast growing technology companies in 2006 2007 2008 2009 and 2010 . in 2008 xsens acquired utellus a spin off from telecom company ericsson s eurolab specializing in applications of ultra wide band rf technology . citation needed in 2014 xsens was acquired by fairchild semiconductor . citation needed projects edit xsens participates in research projects 2 like freemotion 3 which focuses on the development of ambulatory methods using only body worn sensors for motion analysis . xsens also participated in the project mufly 4 which proposes the development and implementation of the first fully autonomous micro helicopter comparable in size and weight to a small bird . matris another project xsens participated in is a european consortium to develop a markerless solution for real time six degrees of freedom tracking for augmented and mixed reality applications . other projects are mc impulse 5 focusing on sensor data processing and milepost on indoor navigation . since 2014 xsens is a full partner of kneemo initial training network itn 6 for knee osteoarthritis research funded through the european commission s framework 7 programme . as an industrial partner its role is to develop methods to estimate knee joint loading using inertial motion capture . productions edit xsens products are widely known for use in film game live entertainment and advertising . known productions that were created with the help of xsens products are batman vs. superman 7 ant man 8 fifa 16 9 love has no labels 10 ted 1 and 2 11 just cause 3 12 the leviathan 13 references edit article about xsens mvn inertial motion capture permanent dead link xsens collaboration projects dutch freemotion project mufly project mc impulse kneemo initial training network website batman vs. superman ant man fifa 16 love has no labels ted just cause 3 the leviathan external links edit xsens technologies b.v. official website xsens products the fascination for motion capture retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title xsens & oldid 737203601 categories electronics companies of the netherlandssoftware companies of the netherlandshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2016articles with permanently dead external linksall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2016official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 09 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view