https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/ projection mapping, lasers, led and the crews behind festival stages — a daily news desk on live-event visuals. en https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/features/digest-2026-w28/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/features/digest-2026-w28/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:30:00 GMT weekly digest three concurrent drone deployments across chicago, utah, and saudi arabia mark a notable concentration of outdoor aerial visual work this week, while a permanent installation in doha and touring fixture choices signal quieter but durable movement in the indoor sector. https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-taste-of-chicago-drone-show-scheduled-for-friday-night-over ww-vp-taste-of-chicago-drone-show-scheduled-for-friday-night-over Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows taste of chicago's 46th year will feature a drone and fireworks show starting around 9:15 p.m. friday near buckingham fountain, running approximately 15 minutes and set to music. the festival, which runs through sunday, is fully cashless this year accepting only credit cards at food vendors. via cbs news. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/taste-of-chicago-cashless-drone-show-grant-park/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-jakov-jozinovic-shows-in-ljubljana-feature-robe-moving-light ww-vp-jakov-jozinovic-shows-in-ljubljana-feature-robe-moving-light Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows jakov jozinović's performances in ljubljana utilized robe moving lights for stage lighting. no additional technical specifications or venue details were provided in the source material. via etnow.com. https://www.etnow.com/news/2026/7/jakov-jozinovi-shows-in-ljubljana-sparkle-with-robe-moving-lights https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-lindquist-family-symphony-pops-concert-to-feature-drone-show ww-vp-lindquist-family-symphony-pops-concert-to-feature-drone-show Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows the 47th annual lindquist family symphony pops concert will incorporate a drone show coordinated with fireworks. specific details about drone specifications, software, or technical production partners were not provided in the announcement. via standard-examiner. https://www.standard.net/entertainment/music/2026/jul/09/47th-annual-lindquist-family-symphony-pops-concert-to-feature-drone-show-over-fireworks/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-1-800-drones-light-up-al-qadsiah-festival ww-vp-1-800-drones-light-up-al-qadsiah-festival Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows a drone show featuring 1,800 illuminated drones performed at al qadsiah festival. the display was presented as a full production show. via mshale. https://mshale.com/aaf0030e/1079aaf5bNaeKVNEO94 https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-glp-jdc1-lighting-used-on-russell-dickerson-s-russellmania-t ww-vp-glp-jdc1-lighting-used-on-russell-dickerson-s-russellmania-t Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT gear glp jdc1 fixtures provided arena-scale lighting punch for russell dickerson's russellmania tour 2026. via plsn.com. https://plsn.com/newsroom/glp-jdc1-brings-arena-scale-punch-to-russell-dickersons-russellmania-tour-2026/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-https-blooloop-com-hive-panasonic-national-museum-qatar ww-vp-https-blooloop-com-hive-panasonic-national-museum-qatar Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows panasonic projector & display corporation and hive have created an immersive museum experience at the national museum of qatar. the project involved audiovisual technology implementation for exhibit design. the installation features cosmic-themed visuals displayed across wall-mounted projection systems for visitor engagement. via blooloop.com. https://blooloop.com/hive-panasonic-national-museum-qatar/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/features/digest-2026-w27/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/features/digest-2026-w27/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:30:00 GMT weekly digest a week in which drone fleets broke records, festival infrastructure expanded, and software releases quietly closed the distance between a laptop show and a full media-server production. https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-vivid-sydney-2026-tdc ww-vp-vivid-sydney-2026-tdc Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows technical direction company ran the projection backbone for vivid sydney 2026 — eleven installations across circular quay, the rocks, barangaroo and darling harbour, 23 consecutive nights, more than 1.45 million ansi lumens of barco laser projection plus roe led walls. garrison church and the argyle cut were rescanned with lidar beforehand to rebuild the mapping models in detail. the whole city-scale rig ran under one master control room with 13 monitoring cameras and 11 automation systems, and tdc added an ai-driven piece of its own, the daydream machine, in the pier street underpass. via smbtech. https://smbtech.au/features/how-ai-lidar-and-547-million-pixels-powered-the-projections-behind-vivid-sydney-2026/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-guetta-monolith-stade-de-france ww-vp-guetta-monolith-stade-de-france Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows david guetta ended the ultimate monolith tour with three sold-out june nights at stade de france — more than 240,000 people across the run — staged as a fully immersive audiovisual show built around a monolith centrepiece. epic cinema and director stijn verlinde shot the finale on a 22-camera red rig. stadium dance shows at this scale are now designed for the lens as much as for the crowd. via lsi online. https://www.lsionline.com/news/red-captures-david-guettas-ultimate-monolith-show/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-sky-elements-americas-250th ww-vp-sky-elements-americas-250th Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows texas-based sky elements is flying drone shows coast to coast across the july 3 to 6 weekend for the united states' 250th anniversary — fifteen locations on july 3 alone, including a 150-drone show over piqua, ohio flown alongside the town's fireworks. the july 4 slate runs from santa fe to bismarck, st. louis, aspen and burbank. fireworks replacement has stopped being a pilot program and become a national logistics operation. via dronedj. https://dronedj.com/2026/07/03/drone-show-july-4-independence/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-matosinhos-3097-drones ww-vp-matosinhos-3097-drones Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows on 19 june, 3,097 drones flew simultaneously over titan beach in matosinhos, greater porto, opening the three-day air invictus festival. the display took two guinness records — europe's largest drone light show and the largest phrase formed by drones, passing the previous 3,050-drone mark. catalan company flock drone art studio synchronized the fleet. via euronews. https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/21/drone-show-in-matosinhos-breaks-guinness-record https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-roskilde-orange-stage-2026 ww-vp-roskilde-orange-stage-2026 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows roskilde festival opened its 2026 site with the first major rework of the orange stage in 25 years — the roof structure now twice as high, the iconic canopy 25 percent larger in both height and width, holding crowds up to 60,000 with considerably more room for stage design. two new stage areas, fauna and lagune, joined the site the same year. via roskilde festival. https://www.roskilde-festival.dk/en/news/get-a-glimpse-of-the-new-stages https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-field-of-dreamz-kvant-busking ww-vp-field-of-dreamz-kvant-busking Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows the first field of dreamz fest at san diego's petco park carried twelve 40-watt kvant clubmax projectors, run busked — an operator improvising beams to the music in real time rather than chasing timecode. laser light company's crew of mitchell blakemore, chris jackson and ricky mendez stretched beams across the stadium in the peaks and pulled back through the mellow passages. slightly stoopid headlined, with stephen marley, stick figure and don carlos on the bill. via laser light company. https://www.laserlightcompany.com/slightly-stoopid-celebrates-homecoming-at-field-of-dreamz-fest-2026/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-don-toliver-octane-lasers ww-vp-don-toliver-octane-lasers Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows don toliver's octane arena tour runs seven atom 58 laser systems on beyond control, produced by pyrotecnico — programming by logan izenas, operation by jason barton-gillman, with creative studio thank you 92 and creative director mike carson. the design works in big aerial effects, precision beam choreography and audience sweeps, treating the lasers as the show's shape rather than its accent. via pangolin. https://pangolin.com/blogs/news/don-toliver-octane-tour-2026 https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-dave-kinetic-led-pods ww-vp-dave-kinetic-led-pods Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows dave's 42-date arena tour flies a grid of 144 dmx-controlled winches carrying led pods, each with nine metres of travel — hidden in the roof for most of the show, then lowered to form kinetic shapes over the stage. lighting and co-production designer tim routledge and programmer morgan evans run them as a slow reveal rather than a constant effect. via lsi online. https://www.lsionline.com/featured-articles/on-tour-dave/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-disguise-x1-infocomm ww-vp-disguise-x1-infocomm Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT gear disguise showed x1 at infocomm — single-output shows run straight from a laptop, no dedicated media server — alongside a mapping matter release that adds a larger projector library, led tiles and projection mirrors, and a new looks-and-compositions workflow in its designer software. for small crews the laptop path narrows the distance between a vj rig and a media-server show. via blooloop. https://blooloop.com/disguise-infocomm-2026/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-pixera-four-gen2 ww-vp-pixera-four-gen2 Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT gear av stumpfl brought the pixera four gen2 media server to infocomm las vegas, alongside a rental-staging variant with 16tb of nvme storage, dual 25gbe networking and 12g-sdi i/o. the booth paired it with zactrack pro 3d tracking, so projected content follows performers as they move, plus smpte st 2110 support and the modular monoclip and varioclip screen ranges. via rave pubs. https://ravepubs.com/av-stumpfl-to-showcase-latest-pixera-media-servers-and-screen-technologies-at-infocomm-2026/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-fusion-2025-turmbuhne-rig ww-vp-fusion-2025-turmbuhne-rig Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT shows laseranimation sollinger published the full laser specification for fusion festival 2025's turmbühne: four phaenon xd 24000 projectors fitted with line optics, four phaenon accurate 10 units, a grid of 28 blitz lasers and six tarm blaze fixtures, with an infinity-mirror laser installation by lighting designers david egger and sebastian mähler. it is one of the few big psy-adjacent stages whose exact rig is public. via laseranimation.com. https://laseranimation.com/en/project/fusion-festival-2025/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-resolume-mcp ww-vp-resolume-mcp Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT software resolume arena 7.24.0 ships mcp servers, letting ai assistants like claude build compositions and wire patches directly inside the vj software. it is the first mainstream vj platform to make the show file itself something an ai can operate on, and it lands while crews like aural eye are already performing ai-generated visuals on psy stages. via resolume.com. https://www.resolume.com/blog https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-unity-100w-ip65 ww-vp-unity-100w-ip65 Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT gear unity lasers, the kvant and pangolin joint venture, has pushed its elite pro fb4 series to 100 to 120 watts of rgb output in ip65 weatherproof housings, alongside the 2025 laser ray 13 array. wattage that was recently reserved for flagship touring systems is now priced for mid-size festival productions, and it survives rain. via unitylasers.com. https://unitylasers.com/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-griffyn-4k50-rgb ww-vp-griffyn-4k50-rgb Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT gear christie's griffyn 4k50-rgb has settled in as the mapping workhorse of large events: 50,000 lumens of pure rgb laser, native 4k, 98 percent of the rec.2020 colour space, and 89 kilograms with no external chiller. barco's 75,000 lumen xdl-4k75, the former lumen king, was discontinued in june 2024, leaving the field to chiller-free rgb designs. via christiedigital.com. https://www.christiedigital.com/products/projectors/all-projectors/griffyn-series/griffyn-4k50-rgb/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-touchdesigner-pops ww-vp-touchdesigner-pops Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT software the touchdesigner 2025 release introduces gpu point operators, a new operator family that pushes millions of particles and point-cloud points in real time, with support for the latest rtx hardware. for stage visuals it means point-cloud and particle looks at densities that previously required pre-rendering. via derivative.ca. https://derivative.ca/community-post/whats-new-2025-touchdesigner-release/73348 https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-notch-onnx ww-vp-notch-onnx Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT software notch 2026.2 can run onnx ai models natively inside a live show file — segmentation, depth estimation and upscaling among them — alongside new real-world 3d capture workflows in the gaussian-splat direction. ai inference is becoming a render node in the visual chain rather than an offline step. via notch.one. https://www.notch.one/campaign/2026-2-whats-new https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-streamdiffusion-live ww-vp-streamdiffusion-live Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT software streamdiffusion runs at around 90 frames per second on an rtx 4090 and is being played inside touchdesigner with midi-controlled prompts, while hosted services now offer the same pipeline to machines without the gpu. real-time diffusion visuals, prompt-ridden like an instrument, are the newest tool in the vj booth. via github.com/cumulo-autumn. https://github.com/cumulo-autumn/StreamDiffusion https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-audience-scanning-discipline ww-vp-audience-scanning-discipline Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT business the international laser display association now runs a self-paced audience scanning safety course and requires irradiance measurements for award entries that expose humans to beams. scanning a crowd is the most beautiful and most dangerous thing a festival laser does, and the professional bar for doing it is now written down. via ilda.com. https://www.ilda.com/audiencescanningsafety.htm https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-madmapper-6-timeline ww-vp-madmapper-6-timeline Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT software madmapper 6 adds a timeline with clips and montage tracks, audio features and a reworked interface, moving the mapping tool toward full show playback while still driving led, dmx and lasers from the same file. for small crews it narrows the gap between a mapping utility and a media server. via cdm.link. https://cdm.link/madmapper-timelines-clips-v6/ https://www.worldwwwide.com/visual-production/#d-drone-shows-gap ww-vp-drone-shows-gap Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:00 GMT business drone light shows are mainstreaming as fireworks replacements — las vegas rang in 2026 with 600 drones synced to pyro, and theme parks are switching permanently — but no major psy festival has flown one. between the open-air sites, the visual culture and the no-fireworks ethos of many gatherings, the first festival to do it well will own the moment. via blooloop.com. https://blooloop.com/opinion/drone-show-spectaculars