# Vicon Reviews **Vendor:** Vicon **Category:** [Job Shop Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/job-shop-management) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About Vicon Vicon HVAC Software fits into any shop large or small. This user-friendly, user-oriented program is extremely customizable. Time is saved from the first day you start using it because the program is preloaded with all the standards and settings that are needed to produce duct work. ## Vicon Reviews ### 1. Vicon is once of the best optical data capturing system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharathwaj S. | Founder and Supervisor , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** In vicon we can capture detailed movement in live after we can do tracking very easy in post,the main thing is we use python scripts we make our comfortable pipeline compare to other softwares. I saw many AAA gaming studios are using vicon system only. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Am using vicon from last 5 yrs no dislike about vicon . **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don't have sking in vicon blade after many updates now we get a skeleton data also based on marker data, direct we export fbx data from vicon and we get bone to mother softwares. ### 2. Vicon has a highly specialized software with top of the line motion capture cameras. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** The best part about using Vicon is the quality of the cameras. This resolution and the gap-filling capabilities and ability to interface/sync other data types is also quite helpful. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** The hardest part about using Vicon is that the data management system can be very confusing. Additionally, support can take a long time to get to the root of any issue that you ,ay be having. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not actually using Vicon for job shop management, I use Vicon for motion capture data analysis. I am realizing that this is likely a different Vicon. ### 3. My experience with Vicon motion capture system was amazing. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pooja P. | Associate Lead Level Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** User-friendly Interface, Excellent camera quality, and Compatibility with different tools. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Clean up time required after capture could be reduced, however the detection is pretty good. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Not sure about this, since it's been a while I have used the Vicon Mo-cap system. ### 4. Motion Capture Use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Vicon?** It's great to use in animations and when linked up with unreal engine and virtual cameras! Tools used with this software includes blade, motionbuilder, unreal engine 4! **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Cameras are sometimes unresponsive but that can be fixed with restarting the program used with the cameras. Hopefully the calibration methods used with the external softwares can be simplified more! **Recommendations to others considering Vicon:** While it is very costly, it's also very worth the price! **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** While using Vicon, I didn't look into the problem solving Vicon was working on. But the ease of useness definitely makes things more productive. Business wise, we aren't a profit organization! ### 5. Great Product, Excellent Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brent R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** The customer support and ease of integration. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** The only issue I have with Vicon is the lack of ability to have a web based licensing feature. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I saves the shop from having to input all ductwork. ### 6. Excellent motion tracker **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohd S. | Maintenance Engineer Instrumentation , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Vicon is user-friendly motion capture system. It's camera quality is very good. It can be synchronized with several streams. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** It is expensive. It detects bad data when multiple bodies are present nearby. **Recommendations to others considering Vicon:** I recommend **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cutting the sheets of exact dimension without error and getting very good performance capture animation. ### 7. tangible experience of the people in the booth, unique high-quality technology **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Claudio C. | Sales Engineer , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** staff with great experience, and precise solutions to the needs of video surveillance **What do you dislike about Vicon?** I don't have any trait that I dislike, confidence is absolute **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** brand follow-up to the user to expand business meeting the needs ### 8. Mocap manipulation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rayan T. | Gameplay Animator , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Easy to Navigate. Easy to use tools. Effective. Actually works! **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Outdated UI, Clunky when zooming in and out. UI is very old and never remembers your presets **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vicon blade helped us to manipulate mocap data easily and eefctively ### 9. From Vicon to Rhombus **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Vicon had a user friendly interface that was easy for end-users to utilize. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** The Vicon system that we had was not cloud-based and was quirky with their Silverlight program that ran on Windows. It had trouble connecting via web browsers. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vicon was for our camera system. It benefited us in helping keep a safe environment. ### 10. A fun motion capture experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew N. | Junior Product Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Vicon?** I enjoyed how user-friendly and accessible to beginners it was. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Like with any software, occasional bugs were always frustrating. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped to measure muscle activation when performing various tasks. ### 11. Very good product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hussam M. | Senior Systems Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Vicon?** The variety and quality for the VMS system and the cameras **What do you dislike about Vicon?** I didn't face any issue with vicon products **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Technical team are very helpful ### 12. Vicon is an excellent company that creates premium products **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Vicon is easy to use and has an easy-to-understand interface. Their software is definitely the best to use in the biomechanics industry. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Their software doesn't always play nice with third-party equipment. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Vicon to record and analyze EMG and motion capture sessions. Being able to sync EMG and motion capture completely revolutionized my research and allowed for easier analysis. ### 13. Vicon is a user-friendly software that allows for complex motion capture analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julia N. | Graduate Research Assistant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** How easy it is to use it as a beginner and the models that come with it. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** I have heard complaints about the price and that those using it always are contacting customer support about something. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Vicon, we are trying to figure out how to track and model the subtalar joint in biomechanical models. ### 14. A great motion tracker system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** The data quality and interface. The ability to synchronize several streams. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** The software Nexus has the opportunity to be more user friendly **Recommendations to others considering Vicon:** A great golden standard system to validate motion sensor data **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sensor data validation. The Vicon acts as a golden standard ### 15. Great to work with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Very accurate recording of animation, and a good workflow when set up properly **What do you dislike about Vicon?** When the cameras haven't been set up properly and you get bad data, and have a lot to clean up **Recommendations to others considering Vicon:** It's more efficient for use in a big company than in a small team **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting a lot of performance capture animation from multiple actors for a small games team ### 16. The Vicon devices may serve as good initiative for the design and development research. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** I have worked on the Vicon motion capture system a few years ago. I would like to buy latest 3D scanners and Lider if I have fuding. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Some of the Vicon devices are very expensive. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had used Vicon devices a few years ago as an initiative for learning the principle of 3D scanning and using it for my research on 3D scanning. These devices may serve as a good initiative for research and development, their employment is very essential as they work as the baseline or reference platforms for our own designed systems. ### 17. Vicon Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mustafa M. | Graduate Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** The way it labels with different colors shows the connections and super-cool camera angles. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Some of the false detection it gets when multiple bodies nearby. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Vicon Nexus previously to solve generate gait data from a study where we were experimenting with different designs of crutches. I found Vicon extremely efficient in calculating forces. ### 18. Site engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Good quality, software not complicated and very hardware quality **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Updating, the market is full of Chinese brands which have more options with low prices, so you have to update and more options in your products **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Projects with hard conditions, my project was in the desert with marine weather condition ### 19. Simple elegant system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Tracker set up was simple and fuss free. Instructions and user interface were also straightforward and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Vicon?** Might require some troubleshooting if instability of hardware/software occurs. **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** Engineering project measuring gait of patients. The set up for test patients were quick and simple. ### 20. Fantastic system - motor capture & gait analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Vicon?** Easy to use, has paid for itself time and time again. Would 100% recommend **What do you dislike about Vicon?** More documentation would be helpful, especially around practical usage **What problems is Vicon solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using vicon to analyze the impact of footwear/orthotics on gait and sit-to-stand motions ## Vicon Discussions - [What is Vicon Nexus?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-vicon-nexus) - 1 comment - [What is motion capture software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-motion-capture-software) - 2 comments - [View Vicon pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/vicon/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+14%3A42%3A11+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=79a62c91-97e3-4ba1-ad83-ac745a91e165&secure%5Btoken%5D=21793566aef7131faafff0a6f77508646c4ac4141a569adcf247864c19ee4a7f&format=llm_user) ## Vicon Features **Front-Office** - Contacts - Sales - Service **Manufacturing** - Product Configuration - Work orders - Scheduling **Back-Office** - Accounting - Inventory - Purchasing **Agentic AI - Job Shop Management** - Multi-step Planning - Decision Making ## Top Vicon Alternatives - [TallyPrime](https://www.g2.com/products/tallyprime/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (276 reviews) - [DigiFabster](https://www.g2.com/products/digifabster/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (109 reviews) - [Paperless Parts](https://www.g2.com/products/paperless-parts/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (110 reviews)