CAST Group Enjoyed a Successful ISE 2020 At ISE 2020 in Amsterdam last month, the CAST Group team welcomed visitors from the global AV community to show them the latest in WYSIWYG, BlackTrax, and CONVRG, the company's camera automation ecosystem powered by BlackTrax. The most notable part of CAST Group's visit to ISE was the public unveil of its new camera-tracking beacon, HELIOS. Folded into a single ecosystem with BlackTrax and CONVRG, HELIOS enables XR and AR in all environments for the broadcast, cinematic, and touring industries. This effectively removes the need for multiple tracking systems when gathering positional data from several sources. With the introduction of HELIOS, the CONVRG ecosystem can now merge real and virtual worlds, taking BlackTrax another step further into the automated future. In addition to the unveil of HELIOS, CAST Group put on daily demos including performances by dancer Trynity Marchant, which showcased the power of BlackTrax in keeping up with agile movements as she moved from corner to corner of the stage. This performance demonstrated the application of zones, particle generation, and more. Once again, CAST Group worked with MEPTIK who created the eye-catching content for this segment. This live performance was followed by a technical explanation of BlackTrax's tools and capabilities within specific integrations including lighting, spatial audio, interactive media, virtual lighting, and broadcast applications. Many thanks to our integration partners at Luminex, Adamson Systems, SPAT Revolution, disguise, Notch, Panasonic, MalfMedia and White Light for their support at this year's ISE demo. Visit CAST Group's ISE Recap page at cast-soft.com/ise-2020-showcase for a full description of its integrated technologies. A highlight of this year's demo was the broadcast applications, powered by BlackTrax's CONVRG and White Light's SmartStage. SmartStage is an immersive video environment that replaces the traditional green screen element of a virtual studio, allowing presenters and audience members to see and directly interact with the content around them. Thanks to the SmartStage, the hosts were transported instantaneously to numerous environments, including the CONVRG studio for the unveil of HELIOS, the weather virtual studio, and the Oscars in LA with augmented reality enabled by the Mini Beacon, and finally to New York, where the company demonstrated how positional data makes interactivity between the real and virtual worlds possible. MalfMedia was CAST's partner for content creation in this. With talent-tracking by BlackTrax, Panasonic's 8K ROI was featured to enable real-time image cropping, while the UE150 PTZs were used to incorporate live augmented reality and virtual objects into the production. A big thank you to camera operator Francesca Bardaro and her videography team for all their help. Besides the demos at this year's ISE, visitors to the CAST booth were also given a hands-on experience with BlackTrax playing an interactive game created by Falcons Creative Group. Equipped with BlackTrax-fitted swords, gamers found themselves immersed on a pirate quest to seek red jewels from skeleton defenders on different islands. Watch our ISE demo at cast-soft.com/ise-2020-showcase 
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