Oxford Metrics buys facial capture firm Captive Devices for up to £750K
What's the deal? Oxford MetricsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a UK smart sensing and measurement technology group, has acquired Captive DevicesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Manchester-based developer of facial capture technology, for up to £750,000. The deal folds Captive Devices into Oxford Metrics' ViconDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → brand, known for body tracking systems used in life sciences, entertainment, engineering, and manufacturing.
What each side brings: Founded in 2024, Captive Devices makes professional head-mounted camera systems and software that work directly with Epic GamesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →' Unreal Engine, used in visual effects, games, and virtual production. It reported unaudited revenue of £500,000 for the year ended April 30, 2026, with gross margins matching Vicon's.
The terms: The consideration includes £250,000 in cash, £300,000 in Oxford Metrics shares issued quarterly over 24 months, and a performance-based earnout of up to £200,000 tied to gross profit from facial capture sales. No debt was assumed, and the cash portion comes from existing resources.
What's the endgame? The acquisition adds markerless facial performance capture to Vicon, letting Oxford Metrics offer an integrated body-and-face workflow across marker-based, markerless, and hybrid motion capture. Captive Devices' founding team will join Vicon.
Why it fits: Captive Devices already sells to leading games studios and visual effects houses, some of them existing Vicon customers. "Captive Devices extends our capabilities from body tracking into facial performance capture and gives us the opportunity to take proven technology to a much broader global customer base," said chief executive officer Imogen O'Connor.
The signal: The deal is a small, targeted bolt-on that widens Vicon's motion capture platform into a fast-growing corner of virtual production, where body and facial data increasingly move through a single pipeline.
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