The latest motion capture technology, brought to you by a company called Organic Motion, frees users up from those big suits with little dots.

All you have to do is step in and become 3D.

“Our system completely changes the process where there is no body suit at all,” said Jonathan Rand of Organic Motion. “Any person can just walk into a scanning space that is part of our system, and instantly be tracked. With the marker-based systems, the computer isn't tracking the person at all; they really are just tracking the markers. So an arm might appear as three dots and that's all you get. An animator works with the three dots to create movement.”

“With our system we are actually seeing the whole person, we’re getting a volumetric image,” continues Rand. “We are seeing thousands of points on you. We have 14 video cameras that are tracking silhouettes of your body and then our software takes those video streams and turns it into a 3D model. There’s a level of artificial intelligence there where it knows it’s looking at your right arm, there is your head, there's your shoulders, that's your height.”

While the obvious application of the technology is for film and video game animators, developers actually say you may get to use it in the near future, most likely at a cycle shop. The company just signed a deal with high-end bicycle manufacturers BMC.

“So someone will be able to ride a stationary bike,” said Rand. “We will be able to tell exactly how they are bending, if there is a slight difference in their leg size, or how they are shifting themselves when they are peddling. The expertise that BMC has in the labs will be built in to analyzing that data and then any regular store clerk can adjust that bike for the rider like an expert.”

Expect it in stores at some point next year.

There are also other athletic and even medical evaluation applications and developers even say they are working on a home version with several potential uses including a new way of getting users inside video games.