Spectator Confidence Monitoring

See What the System is Doing

Confidence monitoring isn’t optional - it’s critical. In high-stake environments, there’s no margin for error when delivering a flawless audience experience.

In immersive and large-scale environments, operators need total visibility into complex video pipelines to ensure the audience sees the right images at the right moment - all in perfect synchronisation.

Our Spectator solution gives you a live view of the actual output, shown as it appears on the final display. Even if your content spans multiple channels of high-resolution live video, Spectator scales and reconstructs it into a single, understandable view. You’re not just seeing what should be shown - you're seeing exactly what is being shown.

This means unmatched accuracy, whether you’re viewing locally or remotely across a network.

7thSense Spectator for Confidence Monitoring

  • Live video inputs from media servers, generative engines, production switchers, cameras, and more.
  • Streams can be assembled on a multiviewer canvas or mapped onto 3D models for human-friendly system monitoring.
  • Integrated with Medialon for control, automation, and real-time device feedback.
  • Spectator’s output can be streamed over the network using NDI to view on standard PCs, laptops, or even VR headsets. 
  • Monitor stitched canvases, blends, and pixel-accurate previews for any display type, on monitors with far fewer pixels than the actual display.

Confidence Monitoring for Planetariums

In fulldome environments, seamless accuracy is everything. Spectator provides a real-time scaled-down view of warped and blended outputs so you can see exactly what’s hitting the dome from the audience’s perspective–without needing to interpret sliced segments of fulldome media.

Confidence Monitoring for Dome Theatres

For dome theatres, knowing what is playing from each server is crucial for delivering smooth, immersive 360° storytelling. Spectator captures the live, geometry-corrected signals after warp and blend processing, assembles the wedges into a coherent canvas, and wraps them onto a 3D dome model–so operators see precisely what’s being projected, where each pixel lands.  

Confidence Monitoring for Mega Canvas LED Displays

For ultra-high-resolution LED displays–what we call ‘Mega Canvasses’–confidence monitoring is mission-critical but it’s unrealistic to have a 1:1 representation of the entire pixel canvas. Spectator scales down and assembles the individual video streams to present them as an assembled canvas so the real output is shown in the context of where the images land on the real display.

Spectator gives operations teams a real-time visual overview of these complex, multi-channel displays. Instantly confirm pixel accuracy, sync status, and content integrity–across the entire canvas.