Hi. I am looking to rent or purchase a motion capture system for capturing human to machine interaction. Which hardware/software system works best with Houdini? As an alternative is there anything that would also work with Maya (though I'm terribly leaning against using Maya at this stage). What plugins would I need? Can someone give me a complete breakdown? Also, would the mo-cap system work with Touch Designer?

Sincerely,
markerline

For Houdini, I recommend anything that will output to BVH files which you can then import via the mcbiovision command line tool that comes with Houdini.