Oxford Metrics

==Overview==
Oxford Metrics is a United Kingdom-based smart sensing software company. It serves c.10,000 customers in more than 70 countries, including gaming companies and universities in various nations. Recently, their Vicon technology enabled London’s holographic Abba Voyage experience.
==Company History==
Oxford Metrics is an AIM listed company which was founded in 1984, and based out of Oxfordshire. Nick Bolton became the CEO in 2005. The business floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2001.
The company originally developed its high-speed imaging camera to monitor the movements of people with cerebral palsy.
It later branched out into motion-capture animation, with its Vicon technology being used to create effects for television series and Hollywood films including The Mandalorian, The Polar Express, and Gladiator. Oxford Metrics’ technology was also used to create Abba Voyage, which launched in 2022.
The business has made a number of acquisitions and disposals, the most notable being the 2022 sale of its Yotta division for £52 million to Causeway Technologies. 
==Business Structure==
Oxford Metrics provides clients with smart sensing technology which converts information from a physical environment into a digital data stream. It employs 201 people and has headquarters in Yarnton, Oxfordshire.
Oxford Metrics is a Public Limited Company, listed on the London Stock Exchange and trading under the OMG ticker.
==Services and products==
Oxford Metrics’ smart sensing Vicon technology is used in the Life Sciences, engineering, entertainment and virtual reality industries. It has been used in films such as Iron Man and Blade Runner 2049 and individuals associated with the technology, were awarded a Technical Achievement Award at the 77th Academy Awards for the development of Vicon motion capture. Vicon is also used in hospitals to improve the care of children with cerebral palsy.
The business has previously been a provider of physical asset management software used in the maintenance of street lighting, highways and waste management.
Oxford Metrics also previously provided camera tracking technologies through its former 2d3 business. The business won a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award in 2002. 
==Sales, partnerships and acquisitions==
===2004===
Oxford Metrics acquired House of Moves, an animation and motion capture business.
===2005===
Oxford Metrics acquired Peak Performance Technologies, a provider of motion management solutions.
===2007===
Oxford Metrics acquired highway surveying company Data Collection Ltd for £5 million.
===2013===
Oxford Metrics acquired Mayrise Systems through its Yotta DCL asset management arm.
===2014===
House of Moves is sold by Oxford Metrics to the company’s management team.
===2015===
Oxford Metrics sold terrain-mapping software operation ‘2d3’ to Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, for $25m. 
===2017===
Oxford Metrics acquired IMeasureU.
===2021===
Oxford Metrics acquired video-based movement analysis company Contemplas GmbH.
===2022===
Oxford Metrics sold infrastructure asset management division, Yotta, to Causeway Technologies for £52m.
Category:Software companies
Category:Software companies established in 1984
Category:Companies based in Oxfordshire				
Category:Software companies of the United Kingdom