Audience Feedback System for Virtual Concerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
The live performance industry faces challenges in sustaining businesses due to restrictions on large gatherings, leading to a lack of audience feedback and energy for performers during virtual concerts, which diminishes the live concert experience for both performers and attendees.
Innovation Solution
A live event production and distribution network that allows performers to receive audience feedback through a system featuring an audience display screen showing surrogates representing remote attendees, enabling interactive elements and enhanced engagement, and a performance server managing audiovisual streams and benefit levels for different ticket holders.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If virtual concerts are held in online games, then events can be conducted remotely during pandemic restrictions, but audience feedback and energy cannot be transmitted back to performers
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism by capturing audience reactions (cheers, applause, etc.) through microphones on audience devices and transmitting these audio signals back to the performer's location through the server, enabling performers to receive real-time audience feedback during remote events
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that facilitates communication between the performer and remote audience members, transmitting both audiovisual content from the performer to audience devices and audience feedback audio back to the performer's location
2Object-affected harmful factors
If large gatherings are restricted, then public health safety is maintained, but live performance businesses cannot sustain operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual copy of the live performance experience by transmitting audiovisual content to remote audience devices, allowing events to be attended by large numbers of people geographically dispersed locations without requiring physical gathering in confined spaces
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions the performance experience from physical space to digital/network space, enabling audience members to participate remotely through internet-connected devices, thereby eliminating the need for large physical gatherings while maintaining business viability
3Loss of information
If traditional live performances are held, then audience feedback and energy are received, but large gatherings are prohibited during pandemic restrictions
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism by capturing audience reactions (cheers, applause, etc.) through microphones on audience devices and transmitting these audio signals back to the performer's location through the server, enabling performers to receive real-time audience feedback during remote events
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces the mechanical requirement of physical presence with electronic communication infrastructure, using internet protocols, audio/video encoding, and digital signal transmission to deliver the live performance experience without physical gathering
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AI summary
Live event production and distribution networks, systems, apparatuses and methods related thereto are described herein. The described innovations may be used not only to present live events to audiences, but to do so in a way that provides audience energy and feedback to the performer(s) (e.g., a band) in a manner akin to that which they receive during a traditional live performance, thereby energizing and motivating the performers to give the best live performance they can, even in the absence of a co-located live audience. Some or all of the audience members may be represented by a visual surrogate displayed on an audience feedback screen set up to be viewable by the performers. The screen may be sized to fill a curtain window of stage on which the performers are performing, and the performers may optionally interact with one or more people in the audience during the live performance.