Oxford Metrics scored $1m for its role in Spielberg's latest film

Oxford Metrics, the Aim-listed software company, has earned around $1m for its role in Steven Spielberg's latest film Ready Player One, City A.M. understands.

The business, whose Vicon subsidiary supplied motion capture and tracking equipment for the futuristic film, has also worked on films including Gladiator, Paddington and Planet of the Apes which have raked in similar sums.

The Vicon equipment was used by UK-based Audiomotion, a special effects firm. Motion sensors were attached to actors and cameras tracked the movements from several angles, allowing Audiomotion to then build digital characters based on the human actor.

“Creating large scale setups for films that heavily rely on performance capture is something that only a handful of companies in the world have experience with,” said Brian Mitchell, Audiomotion's managing director. “With so much of Ready Player One taking place in the Oasis, it was a complicated shoot that required the best, most sophisticated equipment around.”

Ready Player One, which premiered last week, is set between a dystopian overpopulated world and the "Oasis" – an idyllic virtual universe. One of the most demanding productions ever created, with almost 60 per cent of the film using Audiomotion and Vicon's performance capture technology, it was filmed in Warner Bros’s Leavesden studio complex in Hertfordshire.

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