ZZYZX, Inc. announced ESP Vision 3.0, which is able to run natively on the Mac OSX without the need for Parallels or Bootcamp. It can run on any system running Mac OS X 10.4.1 or greater, and any video card that supports OpenGL 1.4 or greater. This includes Intel chipsets and legacy Motorola chipset Macintosh computers, including the Mac Book, Mac Book Pro, iMac, Mac mini and PowerPC computers.
The iPhone MAXRemote from Martin Professional is a personal assistant that can be used to remotely control lighting devices from an iPhone or iPod touch. It is designed for use with the Martin Maxxyz lighting console and Maxxyz PC.
Strong Entertainment Lighting’s new Canto 2000 FF followspot, from the Italian manufacturer LDR (Luci della Ribalta), makes its LDI debut this year.
Elation Professional credits a new light source technology for giving its Platinum Spot 5R the ability to emit an output comparable to a 575-watt fixture in a moving head fixture that’s half the size and weight of a typical 250-watt fixture, while using less than half the energy.
The Evo variable speed chain hoist controller from Kinesys is designed to comply with the BGV C1 life-safety standard and offers zero-speed performance for ultra-slow movement cues and instantaneous starts. An integrated loadcell provides precise load information while dual encoders offer accurate and secure positioning. A metal enclosure houses the controller, with truss and rack mounting options.
Christie MicroTiles are modular digital display tiles that can be stacked and clustered like building blocks to create display walls of various shapes and sizes. Christie cites color and image reproduction, wide viewing angles, and a near-absence of seams on display walls as advantages, with only a 1mm gap between the tiles.
American DJ’s new ProPAR 56RGB is an RGB color-mixing LED fixture and the ProPAR 56CWWW is a warm/cool white LED fixture. Each features 36 1-watt LEDs: the ProPAR 56RGB has 12 red, 12 green and 12 blue LEDs and the ProPAR 56CWWW has 18 warm white (3000K) and 18 cool white (6,000K) LEDs.
Gerriets’ G-TR dance floor tape applicator gives users a way of taping dance floors and carpets in an upright position. The ergonomically designed tool, which weights in at 11 pounds, can reduce stress on back and knees and helps get taping jobs done three to four times faster than working by hand.
The new digital light meter from Ideal offers four measuring ranges up to 200,000 lux or 20,000 footcandles with an accuracy of +/-3 percent at a retail price of $149 (U.S.), or about 25 percent less than competitive light meters with similar feature-sets.
The new generation of the Lightconverse 3D Virtual Show Platform provides a solution for integrating and visualizing multiple show related disciplines in real-time including lighting, video, laser, pyro and DMX-controlled moving objects in a photo-realistic environment.
Martin Professional’s new software version 2.60 for Maxxyz lighting controllers includes Mark Cues, effect generator macros, grouping functions and more. A single cue or the entire cue list can be set as Mark Cue, a.k.a. “Move-in-Black,” suppressing the need to program standby cues.
SpotTrack is a new tool for making and managing followspot cue sheets from the people behind FocusTrack. It can manage shows with one to four spots and reduces the amount of typing required. It provides more information than spot cues including spot setup (type, color load, operator), details of characters in the show (name, cast name, understudy name), pictures of characters and cue lists, which can be imported from FocusTrack which can, in turn, import data from ETC Eos/Ion, MA grandMA and Strand 500-series consoles.