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Big  Plans  for  the  New  Year

1/14/2013

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After two years in development, we are nearing the beta test phase for the Stage Manager Simulator.  The past few weeks have been very exciting as Digia has issued the final release of Qt 5.0, which serves as the nervous system of our simulator.  And while we were waiting on Qt to transfer from Nokia to Digia, the good folk at Carnegie Mellon have released their own update to the voice recognition component!  So while we have been fine-tuning local versions of the software, we can now move to an open beta test of the simulator.

Our big unveiling of the Stage Manager Simulator will be at the USITT Stage Expo in Milwaukee, March 21-23.  

We are proud to partner with InterAmerica Stage, Inc., who are providing two demo booths featuring their sound-dampening acoustic panels (IAS-25AV2).  You won't need a sound booth to run the simulator in your classrooms and offices (a simple noise-cancelling microphone on a headset will do the trick), these booths will allow us to block out the background trade show noise and distractions.

When you stop by our USITT booth, you will be able to test the simulator on either a Mac or a PC.  Conference attendees will also be able to sign up for a download code to test the simulator at home for free.  If you cannot attend USITT this year, you will be able to request an invite to the beta the following week - we will be tracking how our bandwidth responds to multiple users downloading the software and the modules simultaneously.

We would like to thank everyone for the tremendous level of support over the past two years as we have been building and rebuilding a simulator that would make a stage manager proud!

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Branden Stewart link
2/22/2014 11:52:38 am

This was posted in early 2013. I'm just wondering, how close are you for the public to use the SM sim?

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David McGraw
2/22/2014 12:41:56 pm

What good timing! (a compliment that stage managers get all the time)
Ever since USITT last March, we have been working on a way to port the simulator to multiple operating systems, but our efforts were blocked by bugs in the video playback that kept us from syncing video with the voice recognition.
But last night we tested a new engine that looks VERY promising. So we are going to spend March and April 2014 testing this new engine. Our goal is beta testing this summer.

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    SM-Sim combines my love of stage management and new technology.  It is time for more stage management software!

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