Cirque du Soleil has brought James Cameron’s Avatar to life in TORUK – The First Flight through the near-magical technology of BlackTrax. Under the supervision of Istvan Fazekas, Assistant Head of Lighting for TORUK – The First Flight in conjunction with video specialists Solotech, BlackTrax technology tracks the video and lighting elements that transform […]
Hours of psychological torment, heavy drinking of alcohol, prostitution and multiple axe murders all feature in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s extraordinary nineteenth century novel Crime and Punishment. The story has now been brought to the stage in a one-of-a-kind musical creation that debuted at the Moscow Musical Theatre on March 17, 2016. Russian-American filmmaker, Andrei Konchalovsky went to […]
Another first for BlackTrax realtime motion tracking solution Wowing crowds of 17,000, Dutch superstar Marco Borsato’s Symphonica in Rosso is one of the most spectacular series of performances in history. Held at Amsterdam Ziggodome Arena during 2016, 12 sold-out concerts broke all boundaries in terms of technical creativity, innovation and wizardry. Jo Pauly, d3 operator […]
A few months ago the time was nearing for BlackTrax 2015th show. CAST announced that we would give one of our passionate users a chance to see the system at its full potential in an incredible destination trip experience. That moment came for Teo Lanerva, he was selected in a draw as the winner of […]
The UK-based artistic design firm, Oli Metcalfe Design Ltd working with entertainment studio, Moment Factory applied an unprecedented combination of interactive technology for the worldwide arena tours of British rock trio, Muse and their new album Drones, their seventh studio record. The Drones tour combines tracking, lighting, videos, flying elements and a lot of creativity, […]
BlackTrax tracks moving spherical projection surface alongside live performers Working with Dynamic Motion, Protec delivered expert video design services and technology including BlackTrax real-time motion tracking at the grand opening ceremony of World Air Games 2015 held at the beachside coastal location of Sky Dive Dubai, UAE in late 2015. Taking centre-stage, a raised inflatable […]
New BlackTrax Beta 2.0 makes tracking even easier, faster to calibrate, program and use. Developed for over a year, 2.0 has the largest number of new features, GUI and workflow improvements in any BlackTrax release yet. “A lot of these improvements were developed from customer suggestions, requests and general feedback,” explains Marty Cochrane, BlackTrax […]
TORONTO, CANADA: Renowned motion tracking solution BlackTrax will participate in the highly anticipated Projection Master Classes at LDI 2014 in Vegas, NV from 19 – 20 November 2014. For those participants wishing to get some hands-on and expert insight, Gil Densham, President of CAST BlackTrax, will partake in panel sessions focusing on the technical achievements […]