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Nice start to the set up, but it looks like you have a few things off, these are just some of my personal suggestions below, so I hope you understand what I am trying to explain.
1) All cameras should all point toward a central point at chest height off the floor, not meaning the camera height all at chest height, just point them at the chest area of the performer, best to have a bit shorter performer to measure this, about 5 to 5'2" works well, or whatever that translates into for meters and have a clear highly visible center mark on the floor you can see in all cameras and this mark should be very close to the same position in each of the recorder view ports to each other. If you aren't using a rear camera pointing forward, the set up in the image won't really work that well for 360 body rotation tracking, your capture volume only being 4m x 4 m between the cloth, you will only get max of 3 m x 3 m movement area, but you should use a more semi circle set up, with the 2 rear side cams about 1 to 1.2 m off the back wall and higher up pointing downward at about 2.3-2.4m and just slightly further away from the center mark, (this may be hard since you will have the cloth possibly interfering with their view, but you could angle the tops of the side cloth back to give more room if possible, because you want those cameras to always fully see at least the full head of the performer at all times), these 2 cams can be placed in the 2 rear corners, pointing slightly forward looking, but better if just slightly off the rear wall by 1-1.2 m, for better video depth and hip tracking, and so you can turn with arms fully extended out and clear the back wall easily and have less chance of loosing tracking on rotations, especially if the arms are close to the body when doing a motion.
The other 3 cameras should be one directly in front of the performer at a height of 1.20 m and the other 2 at a 45 degree angle in the front corners at heights of between 1.50 m and 1.70 m, but better if one side is a bit higher than the other, like R=1.50 m L=1.70 m, this little offsets helps for a slightly different view when tracking.
You should get one more camera if possible to use as the very high center front cam pointing down on the performer also, and just a bit closer to the center mark, do not worry of it doesn't view the full arm extension of an action, the other 5 cameras will handle that, this cam works for better foot to floor contact.
2) I personally don't think you have enough light yet, based on if that's all you will have during recording from that image. Although, PS Eyes don't work well with intense light, so you need to find the sweet spot for them, so not to wash out the recording in the studio for tracking.
3) Those type lights aren't best as they throw weird shadowing and iPi tracking doesn't like shadows, so if you have to use those lights, make a ring, or rectangle with them around the outside area, between your central floor mark, (which you should have and use a visible marking), and your drop clothes, not really necessary to have direct overhead lights over the center or performers head.
4) Try not to have any lights where the camera will look directly at them, it will cause a washing of the colors and a white film look over the recording, PS Eyes are very touchy to this, but you can adjust the camera settings and reduce the exposure, but you have to know this before you record, or do several tests to find out, because you don't want to have to always play with camera settings before you record, the environment once configured should always try to remain the same, with the same equally ambient lighting.
5) All lighting should overlap one another, or you will cause dead space shadows between them and that isn't optimal.
6) You don't need to attach a Move controller to any props, the tracking doesn't really track props, but if the prop is too wide to block the tracking, it will cause issues, best to use the thinnest props you can, what you want is the hand locations on the props from the moves and the wrist rotations needed, not to track a prop, because iPi doesn't have extra bones to use for that purpose... yet, so you won't get any data from the Move to accurately use.
Of course all set up configuration is up to you in the end, but I hope some of this helps you understand and the reasons for it, but really too much to go through in just this one thread, but you can use the Search function in the forum to hep find more references and post.
Good luck and please post more once you get set up and tracking to your liking, it will be a trial and error mess for a bit since you are just starting with PS Eyes, but it doesn't take very long to get it working well. I will say that the calibration phase is very important, so get that as good as you can consistently.
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