Observed arrival · 2026-09-21
OSCAR: Control Surfaces for Interactive Installations
A free, open-source browser-based tool for designing interfaces that control video, lighting, and sound systems.
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- Interactive installation makers and live-media operators
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- A single widget can address OSC, MIDI, and DMX, with browser-based publishing over a local network.
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The page describes a desktop editor that publishes control surfaces to browsers on the same network, with QR-code access and synchronized displays across devices. Its protocol coverage is unusually concrete: OSC connects to software such as Resolume, TouchDesigner, QLab, and Ableton; MIDI handles hardware messages; and Art-Net or sACN can address lighting directly. Some editor and protocol features are marked as coming in OSCAR 2.1.
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