• Introduction
• UpStage v3
• Introduction
• UpStage Team
• Technical Information
• How to Help UpStage
• Audience
• Audience View
• Audience Chat
• Audience Interactivity
• Players
• Logging In
• Player Profile
• Player View
• On-stage Player Tools
• Avatar Tools
• Audio Palette
• Drawing Palette
• Speech and Text Chat
• / Commands
• Media Management
• The Workshop Interface
• Creating and Editing Players
• Creating and Editing Stages
• Uploading Media
• Browse Media
• Edit Media
• Creating Media
• Creating Graphics for UpStage
• Creating Audio for UpStage
• Streaming
• Introduction to streaming
• Video tutorial
• Sending a stream
• Red5 Publisher interface
• FMLE
• VLC (Linux)
• Creating a stream avatar
• Prerecorded streams
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Text2Speech Voices
• Troubleshooting

Audience View

Audience members enter UpStage by following a web link from an email or web page; you do not need to download or install any additional software as long as you have a browser with the Flash player plug-in¹. Audience members do not log in, and do not have access to the on-stage tools used by the players.

Once the stage loaded in the browser window, you will see and hear the performance and be able to participate in the text chat by typing into the text input field. Audience chat is silent, whereas avatars operated by players have audible synthethised voices.

An example of the audience view of the stage is shown below: the text chat window is at the right, with an input field at the bottom and up-down scroll arrows on the right top and bottom corners. Above the text chat window, a counter shows how many players and audience members are on the stage. The rest of the screen is the "stage" where the visual action of the performance takes place. 

1. The Flash player plugin comes preinstalled with most browsers; if you don't have it, it is free to download here: www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html.^{^}