3 posts tagged with "Announcements"

I want to tell you about the thing I've spent most of this year on, and I want to start by telling you what it isn't. Which is a weird way to start but with all the hate for AI in the creative space, which I understand and support, I want to explain why CarlBot is not and will NEVER be meant to replace the fun parts of designing and building attractions. It's here to help you do more of the fun part of dreaming, creating, and building your perfect attraction.

CarlBot isn't going to design your scare. It isn't going to tell you whether your puzzle is fair. It has no idea what your guests think is fun, or magical, or terrifying, and it NEVER WILL!. That's your job. It's always been your job, and honestly, it's the best part of the job.

What it will do is the other part. The dragging of clips. The connecting triggers to shows. The lining up of a talking prop to a voice track for the fourth time this week at eleven at night. Say hello to CarlBot, your technical assistant inside IgorBox Studio, and it's in public beta right now.

Some of the best feedback we get never shows up in a bug report. It comes from observing what happens at an install and watching someone on a ladder trying to plug an Ethernet cable into a controller that was only ever going to live on WiFi, just to get it online for the very first time.

Our Magic Provisioning system is pretty amazing and simplified configuring controllers and bringing them up in your Studio, but watching that happen made me realize we have to make this easier. Now we have! I am so happy to introduce IgorBox Connect, our new free app for iPhone and Android that sets up a controller's WiFi over Bluetooth. No cable. No laptop. No captive portal. Just your phone and the controller right in front of you.

This is the post I have been wanting to write for over a year.

After all the late nights, the rebuilds, the quiet, and the long stretch of working hand-in-hand with professional haunts and escape rooms, I am so unbelievably proud to introduce the new IgorBox controller lineup. Three controllers. One platform. Built from the ground up with the people who actually use this stuff in the field.