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for the millionaire “ask the audience” sort of thing?

 

Quite common in universities a few years ago, allowing students to answer questions or vote during lectures. Have a search for “PRS systems” (Personal Response)

 

InterWrite and TurningPoint are two suppliers.

 

These devices use small IR handsets, a bit like a TV remote control.

 

You can hire them.

 

 

 

More modern systems use a smartphone app - there are plenty around, the one that comes to mind is Ombea, but there are many others.

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For the more advanced option we use PixiLab Blocks. It's pretty indepth, you can do things with it like triggers etc as well so when something hits a ratio an event can occour, you can also send the data out to screens as you want and need. I imagine its finance wise quite a jump, but the option/s are there.
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Boring reminder that in any one cell antenna area only around 150 people can be ACTIVELY using the connection at the same time (beyond this signal strength / speed will drop dramatically as the network try’s to share capacity) and any in-house WiFi system will have a lower bandwidth capacity so if you are looking at a wireless/phone solution you need to be specifying extra internet capacity/infrastructure and or allowing lots of time for audiences to respond so that the network can cope.
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There was a production called 'Eurobeat' which was a musical based on the Eurovision song contest. At the end of the show the audience voted for their favourite act. I'm pretty sure they used to use voting buttons, but now use an app or website. I think they are currently touring elsewhere in the world so might we worth investigating.
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I believe Eurobeat are now using an app, but the original Edinburgh show when it was in the UK (going back to 2010!) used SMS messages to an aggregating service that was then monitored by a website and the figures put in to an excel spreadsheet. Bit antiquated but more bullet proof with bandwidth!
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I've had a show with service provided audience response keypads - a standalone system with 1800 transmitters and a fancy receiver system. They set it all up, charge the keypads and output the data to whatever you're doing with it.

I've had a show with a cloud based system, audience view a website and log responses there. Worked fine for 200 people on an enterprise grade wifi network. No crew work other than doing something with the data and displaying a slide before the show with the website details.

I've also had a show with 4 coloured bits of paper (go for really different colours - white/red/blue/green) under the chairs, hold up the colour to give an answer and the talent or a handy spotter can fairly quickly get a good grasp of the responses.

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I've also had a show with 4 coloured bits of paper (go for really different colours - white/red/blue/green) under the chairs, hold up the colour to give an answer and the talent or a handy spotter can fairly quickly get a good grasp of the responses.

 

One of the Top Gear live shows did a large scale driving game like this - the audience held up one colour to steer left, and another to steer right. There was some sort of system working out the ratio of colours and translating that into a driving command.

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