Be Part of the CAST BlackTrax "Virtual Band" Demo at LDIFor LDI2012, CAST is planning a new demo of the multi-award-winning BlackTrax V1. LDI will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, October 19-21, and CAST will be exhibiting in stand 1808. They will hold their interactive demo in the CAST demo room. BlackTrax V1 first won a prestigious "Game Changer" Award at NAB 2012, and then nabbing the only Gold Innovation Award at PLASA 2012. The company says CAST has prepared a groundbreaking demonstration of this revolutionary technology just for LDI. BlackTrax yet is an Ethernet-based, powerful, fast, and accurate solution that tracks objects or people in a defined 3D "space" and delivers the dynamic positional data in realtime in up to "6 degrees of freedom" -- the usual x, y, z, plus roll, pitch, and yaw -- to audio, lighting, motion control, and media technologies. It uses a BlackTrax beacon which emits a virtually invisible infrared light via the LED that is seen by BlackTrax's proprietary, custom designed camera system which delivers the positional data to the BTServer. A tiny wireless radio in the BTBeacon transmits the additional packet for 6D -- roll, pitch, and yaw -- as well as redundant 3D backup. The onboard gyroscope communicates the orientation of a moving piece or performer at over 250 frames per second. Control can be located up to 100' (30m) away with 1/4" tracking accuracy. Using BlackTrax as the foundation, the experience design company Moodbox from Switzerland and CAST Software's own Jim Hutchison (lighting designer, USA829) have created a mixed-media rig giving intuitive control over every aspect of a cutting edge show. Using the coolux Widget Designer software, a tool to network different data input streams, the position data is sent to a coolux media server which generates particles in real-time; imagine a scene from the movie Tron -- wherever a person with a BTBeacon moves, a colored trail of particles is projected onto the floor behind them. BlackTrax allows every visitor to the CAST demo room the exact same experience -- the ability to be tracked in 3D space and actually interact with the digital presence that is lighting, audio, video, and interactivity media. To create a true immersive experience, BlackTrax connects to a grandMA2 lighting desk, giving every light in the rig the possibility to track any beacon on stage. All of this technology is available to the user with only a few clicks or taps on a touch screen. BlackTrax gives the user the ability to put your audience directly into the world of their production by speaking directly to spatial audio systems. BlackTrax is connected to the Sonic Emotions 3D Audio processing engine, which opens endless possibilities. At last, the sound really comes from where it should -- not from the speakers but from the person actually playing an instrument on stage, the company says. Imagine a guitar player on an arena stage; using the Sonic Emotions 3D Audio, the sound actually seems to come from the position of the guitar player, and now using a BTBeacon the sound can actually move with the guitar player on stage. To show the ease and effect of this technology, visitors to the show room will be able to move around a stage wearing a Beacon corresponding to an instrument. As they move around the demo area, the sound will follow the visitor, giving them and the audience a truly complete immersive experience only possible with the BlackTrax technology. Visitors planning to attend LDI can book their time now for a BlackTrax demonstration. While the BlackTrax demo will be ongoing in the demo room, CAST will also have a display at booth 1002 showing their other new products such as WYSIWYG R29, Vivien 2012, and the brand new Vivien Online. The latest WYSIWYG release, R29, has many new features and improvements, including the ability to touch select fixtures and manipulate in shaded view, create camera flies in 6D, a new six degrees of freedom camera system, drawing purge, truss end indicators, multi-rotate, enhancements to the layer database window, gyroscope, world grid, and much more. Vivien 2012 is a comprehensive sales, catering, planning, and designing graphic application software that produces eye-popping 2D or 3D previsualization and photorealistic renders for the full spectrum of event professionals. It now works together with the all new Vivien Online -- the intuitive 3D event design and sales software which empowers users to conceive, design, sell, manage, and produce stunning events, all online. By making use of its wide array of tools, onboard wizards, a library of more than 20,000 proprietary industry-specific objects and textures, and the ability to import external files in a variety of formats (including Google SketchUp), the company says individual or multiple users from all areas in an organization can become more professional, more productive, and more profitable. See CAST at PLASA Focus: Stamford, November 12-13. 
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