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Roy, Last year I ran Flock O Birds with a Onyx Reality Engine set up with Alias. My impression was fairly simple….Flock OB.s is very noisy and super sensative to any metal object in the room like rebar in a concrete floor. We had to build an all-wood 4 foot-high raised platform with minimum nails in a large room and then suspend the FOB interface boxes overhead above the stage. The big old magnetic transformer had to sit about six feet from the actor right on the stage. A real pain! When I imported the data, the model jumped and jerked and generally caused a lot of effort wasted in getting stable moves. It seems to work fine when the movements are real obvious, but it doesn't like it when you stand still. My model would creep and eventually tip over if I left the system running over lunch with the sensors on a maniquin. I sure hope you have the space for this kind of project. Good luck. As far as Polhemus goes, I havn't run it, but magnets are magnets and both systems use them. Draw your conclusions from that. Sanford Sanford Kennedy Design