Vicon host PC in a Vicon system
- Gisela Roberts
The Vicon host PC receives data from your Vicon system and runs the Vicon motion capture and analysis software. If your Vicon system includes more than one Ethernet switch, the switch connected to the Vicon host PC is the primary switch. Depending on your system configuration, you may also install additional Vicon hardware, Vicon application software, or third-party applications on the same PC or on other, remote PCs in a distributed system. Vicon software is licensed on the Vicon host PC.
The computer used as the Vicon host PC in your Vicon system may be supplied by Vicon, or it may be one that you provide yourself. If you provide your own PC, its specification depends upon your system and your application requirements:
- For system performance, processor speed and memory are the most important factors.
- For high camera-count or high marker-count applications, hard drive speed and RAM requirements are of greater importance.
- For any PC on which you have installed visualization software that makes high graphics demands, a high-quality graphics card is required.
For details of the requirements for the Vicon host PC for your Vicon application software, see What are the latest PC specifications? on the Vicon website, or contact Vicon Support.
In all cases, Vicon application software requires a PC with an Intel or AMD processor. Because these processors are used in Vicon development and testing, Vicon applications are optimized for these processor types.
