When car maker Audi introduced its A8L luxury saloon to the Chinese market, technical service company Redline turned to the BlackTrax real-time motion tracking system to help deliver the 'Wow!' factor to the launch show.

CAST Software has announced the release 41 of wysiwyg lighting design and previsualisation software. The new version brings a broad range of new features and functionality that they hope will reinforce wysiwyg’s position as the tool of choice for lighting professionals. 

What do a popular classical music show in London, an international swimming competition in Budapest, an outdoor rock concert in Belgium and a new church in a tiny village in England have in common? Simply: all have benefited from the use of CAST Software’s wysiwyg lighting design toolkit. With three churches already serving its population of 2,300, it’s perhaps surprising that one of them is building a new one in the fenland vill...

Ask lighting designers what gives them most pleasure, and the chances are they’ll answer “the opportunity to be creative”. But: a stunning design eventually needs to be translated into a working reality. Waiting until the show itself to see if the design can actually be implemented isn’t an option – but neither, in the majority of cases, is it feasible to put together a ‘live’ trial. That was the cha...

Earlier this year, the 17th FINA World Championships took place in Budapest. The event welcomed nearly 2,500 sportsmen and sports women and 350,000 visitors, making it the biggest sporting event in Hungary’s history. The opening ceremony also saw Hungary’s largest-ever presentation using projection mapping – which was created by Ferenc Varga of Visualpower kft using CAST Software’s wysiwyg lighting design and previsua...

With improved security to protect user investment, CAST has introduced wysiwyg Lighting Design Software Release 39. It offers a rich new feature set for every wysiwyg mode: CAD, Data, Plots, Reports and Previsualisation. Created with the lighting designer in mind as well as a futuristic workplace, wysiwyg’s powerful and integrated improvements result from the direct feedback from wysiwyg users and the wysiwyg beta testing programm...

Visitors to this year's Prolight + Sound 2017 exhibition, taking place between 4th-7th April 2017, will see that PRG XL Video will be replicating several real-world entertainment scenarios at stand FH01 in hall 2. The key focal point will be a giant arena show demo area, which will see PRG XL Video deploy Beacons from BlackTrax real-time motion tracking system discreetly fitted to the clothing of German pop artists F...

wysiwyg lighting design tool and software offers a growing worldwide network of designers the right design solution for complex needs. Following an intensive beta evaluation process, wysiwyg releases version R38. Users will look forward to creating spectacular and even multi-sensory experiences as they use digital design that can be securely shared anywhere through most devices.

Gilray Densham, owner and CEO of CAST Group, has won an Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award, a prestigious innovation award in Canada. Densham has been awarded the David E. Mitchell Award of Distinction, the second highest achievement of the Ernest C. Manning Innovation Awards, and a sum of $25,000 in recognition for BlackTrax real-time motion tracking system that offers production professionals with six degrees of freedom, including 3D and r...