OMG's contract with sportscot

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OMG PLC

11 August 2010

 



11 August 2010

OMG plc

('OMG' or the 'Group')

sportscotland train 2012 Olympic Athletes with  Vicon motion capture

OMG plc, Oxford Metrics Group (LSE: OMG), ("OMG" or "the Group") the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, today announced that the sportscotland institute of sport has purchased a 10 camera Vicon T20 system to help develop better training methods for the 2012 Olympic and 2014 Commonwealth Games athletes.

sportscotland is the National Agency for Sport in Scotland and the institute is its high performance arm. The institute prepares Scotland's best athletes to perform on the World stage, and provides high performance expertise to sport and athletes in Scotland.

"We bought the Vicon T20 system because of its ability to accurately capture fast human movement. Also, the Polygon software includes key reporting methods, for example injury and physiotherapy intervention components," said Dr. Malcolm Fairweather, Head of Science and Innovation at the sportscotland institute of sport.

"Our Vicon system gives us the ability to benchmark and assess athlete behaviourover time including the measurement of impact due to coaching and support interventions. It's great to be associated with a company that has an excellent UK support base and worldwide reputation!"

Imogen Moorhouse, MD at Vicon said: "sportscotland is a great organisation. Their commitment to excellence is well known and choosing a Vicon motion capture system further strengthens that position. I'm looking forward to seeing the development of our athletes in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics!"

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About OMG

OMG plc (Oxford Metrics Group. LSE: OMG) is a group of technology companies producing image understanding products and services for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries.

Be it for capturing the movements of actors (for the movie industry), sportsmen (for video games or improving team performance), or children with Cerebral Palsy, rehab patients and animals (for medical, life science and research industries); or recording the condition of highways and the assets that surround them or assessing the value of properties; or even providing image intelligence and situational awareness from drone aircraft. Through this diversified offering the Group has earned its strong international reputation for precision from pixels.

Founded in 1984, the Group is headquartered in Oxford, UK, and has four offices in the US and two in the UK. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through three operating subsidiaries:  Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, and Yotta, our highways and property surveying business.

The Group's global clients spanning the worlds of science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film and broadcast include: major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including: Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector: Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In surveying clients include: Miami-Dade county, Atkins, and Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omgplc.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.co.uk or www.yottamvs.com.

For further information about the sportscotland institute of sport please go to www.sisport.com

 

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