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ROE Visual and disguise Join Forces to Open xR STAGE TOKYO

ROE Visual and disguise announce the opening of their xR STAGE TOKYO—a virtual production showroom, powered by ROE Visual and disguise. Located at ROE Visual Japan’s premises in Hatchobori, xR STAGE TOKYO offers visitors the opportunity to get an up-close experience with virtual production technology and in-camera VFX within an LED volume.

In-camera VFX is a technique that uses real-time compositing of CG backgrounds on an LED wall. The method is currently used in films, TV commercials, and music videos and is now expanding to live streaming and corporate online presentations. Virtual Production workflows are made possible by disguise’s award-winning extended reality (xR) technology. disguise’s xR workflow is already powering LED stages in over 300 locations in over 45 countries, many of which are made up of ROE Visual LED panels.

Due to disguise’s reliable and seamless xR workflow, coupled with the quality of LED offered by ROE Visual, this technology is used worldwide and is an integral part of hundreds of productions. See this technology in action in ROE Visual’s showreel:

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ADJ Lighting Brings Unique Underground Jump Park to Life with Color and Movement

A variety of ADJ fixtures have been utilized at a new jump park attraction in The Netherlands built in a natural underground cave. Featuring both LED-powered static washes and moving head spots, the lighting installation fills the unique space with vibrant swathes of saturated color and moving gobo projections. With full DMX control from ADJ’s tablet-based Airstream DMX Pro App, operators of the attraction have the ability to easily alter both the color scheme and intensity of the lighting effects to create the right atmosphere for the different public sessions and private parties hosted at the park.Read More »ADJ Lighting Brings Unique Underground Jump Park to Life with Color and Movement

ChamSys Helps Crt Birsa Balance Demands Lighting Popevka Song Competition

There is an almost mystical power to idioms. Like some secret shared within a tightly knit circle of friends, these impossible-to-translate words and phrases endow a language with its distinct character – one that only those immersed in its culture can fully appreciate. “Popevka,” is such a word in Slovenian. A form of music interwoven tightly around this nation’s folk traditions; its deepest meaning evaporates once it’s decoupled from its cultural roots. Lighting Designer, Crt Birsa can’t translate the power of Popevka into words, but he did a brilliant job conveying it in light recently when he lit a TV program of that name using his ChamSys MagicQ MQ80 and a PC Wing, despite having to balance time and deadline issues.Read More »ChamSys Helps Crt Birsa Balance Demands Lighting Popevka Song Competition

Reading Rep is Set for Acclaim with Strand LED Fresnels

“The Strand Acclaim LED Fresnels were an ideal choice. Energy efficient, great optics and excellent color rendering,” says Andrew Stone, managing director of theatre consultancy, Drama by Design. Photo Credit: ©Harry Elletson

Multi-award-winning arts and performance venue, Reading Rep Theatre, has benefited from an energy and space efficient, high impact lighting solution by choosing to invest in a number of the latest Acclaim LED Fresnels from Strand, a Signify entertainment lighting brand. The fixtures were originally specified by theater consultancy, Drama by Design, the company responsible for the entire £1m conversion from Salvation Army Hall to 170 seat, technically adaptable, multi-purpose venue.Read More »Reading Rep is Set for Acclaim with Strand LED Fresnels

Westview Productions Appoints Alison Daughters as New Vice President

Westview Productions, a leading entertainment systems, energy solutions, and immersive technology firm, today announced that Alison Daughters would move to the position of Vice President. In her new role, she will continue to oversee HR, Operations, Marketing, and serve as the manager for the heads of the Sales & Estimating, Projects & Engineering, and Field Service departments.Read More »Westview Productions Appoints Alison Daughters as New Vice President

UNCSA Stage Management Program Director Jamie Call Blankinship Receives Excellence in Teaching Award

Jamie Call Blankinship is the is director of the stage management program at UNCSA.

Alumna and longtime University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) faculty member Jamie Call Blankinship has been named recipient of a 2022 University of North Carolina (UNC) Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Call Blankinship is director of the stage management program in the School of Design and Production (D&P) at UNCSA.Read More »UNCSA Stage Management Program Director Jamie Call Blankinship Receives Excellence in Teaching Award