Swedish design group front has developed a very unique motion capture application. They are using mo-cap to essentially “sketch” furniture designs in mid-air, designs which are then digitally processed and built using Rapid Prototyping. There is a video at YouTube that shows the process in action.

For the present, the designs created could only be marketed as art. The artists cannot see what they are drawing in mid-air, and the completed pieces reflect that inaccuracy and randomness. I could see vast improvements in this application by adding the ability to process the motion captures and display them in realtime to the artist, perhaps even via VR headgear. Then the concept might be of greater worth to other industries.