Lol, I highly doubt it. Our system is very expensive, large, and requires a lot of technical knowledge. However, I already see AR integrated into phones with facial tracking. I have to imagine full body tracking for AR is not the far off from being on your iPhone or Android. They will probably market it as some new feature and partner with Unreal to put you in the Metaverse or some other Ready Player One BS.

1. I would say technology generally has the power to make things possible that were not before. In the performance capture space technology is rapidly changing. Our stage was built over 20 years ago at this point and at the time they had to put silks and diffusion over all the lights and even had white carpet specifically to bounce as much light as possible onto the performer with no shadows for the HMCs (Head Mounted Cameras - Facial Capture). Now the headcams don't require all that and the facial solving tools are much more robust. We can even use iPhones for facial capture. Overall, technology has made it easier and it's a rapidly evolving field.
2. I have only been in my current position for 4 years. Before that my only mocap experience was when I worked on LA Noire with Rockstar and that's a whole other story. It has changed immensely from them till now. It's changed in facial capture more than motion capture (body). However there are now consumer motion capture products you can do with your iPhone such as move ai. Or you can do inertial capture with an XSens suit or Rokoko suit. Industry leading manufactures are also beta testing markerless optical MoCap systems. Very exciting!

In terms of prep I don't think it has changed tremendously. For virtual production we do have more tools now such as real time visualization and virtual cameras. On the post side the software is more powerful and does more of the work for you but you will always need humans overseeing and checking everything for quality data outputs.

Keep in mind I am a producer and while I do have a fair amount of technical knowledge I am not the MoCap Supervisor that manges all the data on a day to day basis.

Hope that answers some questions.

I first found it just poking around apps in Spring. Then I posted a note asking how I go about stacking sats. @thebullishbitcoiner replied to me with a guide of how tos. Here I am.

Thanks for the tips! I will keep those in mind for the future.

Unfortunately we are under NDA on all projects till after they are released so I can't really tell you that. The most recent thing we did that has come out was a commercial campaign for Crowdstrike. Here's one of the spots. Our MoCap was applied to the creatures.