InfoComm Panel: Behind the Scenes of Kid Cudi's Tech-Driven Tour

Step backstage with the team behind Kid Cudi's tech-driven Rebel Ragers Tour for a candid breakdown of how an ambitious creative vision becomes a repeatable, tour-ready reality.

Kid Cudi has long been a pioneer in immersive world-building, using the stage as a vessel for cosmic, multi-dimensional storytelling. To evolve this legacy even further, the Rebel Ragers Tour translates the artist's imaginative, emotional world into a tourable architecture that feels raw, immersive, and technically unprecedented.

Ryan Shephard, Managing Partner at Dark Matter Technologies, Aron Johnson, Human Person, Dan Baum, VP of Sales, Americas at Disguise and Heather Fuller,
Partnerships & Ecosystem Leader
Gaming and Entertainment (moderator) unpack the real decisions that shaped the show - from designing the visual language and building the content pipeline, to solving the on-the-road constraints that make or break immersive moments. 

This session offers a deep dive into the tour's production pipeline, from the initial creative spark to the real-time content possibilities unlocked by Disguise GX 3+, as well as the execution of an ambitious XR stage setup that allowed Cudi to inhabit his visuals in real-time. 

• How to design a visual language and build a content pipeline for a tourable, immersive architecture
• The real-time content possibilities unlocked by Disguise GX 3+ on a large-scale touring production
• How to execute an ambitious XR stage setup that lets artists inhabit their visuals in real-time, night after night
• Solving on-the-road constraints that make or break immersive moments on tour