How Stagefront Works
A browser-native 3D venue. Screenshare as your stage. Spatial audio that responds to where fans stand. Here's the full picture.
The venue is a browser room
Stagefront shows happen inside Portals — a spatial 3D engine that runs entirely in Chrome with no download, no install, no account. Every Stagefront artist gets a custom Portals room as their permanent stage.
These rooms are real 3D spaces — not video chat grids, not flat stream embeds. Fans enter as avatars and move through the space. The room has a stage, a floor, walls, interactive objects, and a crowd that's physically present.
Screenshare is the stage
Artists don't stream to a platform. They screenshare into their venue. Whatever is on their Chrome tab — a DAW producing live, a camera, a full visual set — appears on the stage screen inside the 3D room.
The key difference: the audio from the screenshare feeds into the venue's spatial audio system. It's not piped to all fans equally. It behaves like sound in a room — louder near the stage, quieter further back.
Spatial audio that
responds to position
Every sound source in a Portals room has a falloff distance — a start radius (full volume) and an end radius (silence). Between those two points, volume fades linearly.
For a Stagefront show, the stage screen is the primary sound source. Artists can configure the acoustic feel of their venue — a tight club will have a short falloff (you need to be close). A festival stage radiates across the whole field.
Fan communication is layered — artists choose their Show Mode (Broadcast, Community, or Silent) and Stagefront's chat layer sits alongside Portals. Fans can always private-message each other without interrupting the performance. Fan-to-artist DMs go straight to the artist's dashboard inbox.
How artists run a show
End-to-end — from sign-up to curtain call.
Sign up and access your dashboard
Create your account and land directly in your full artist dashboard. No applications. No waitlist. No approval gate. Everything is ready from day one.
Your dashboard includes: Venue Builder, 3D Prop Studio, Avatar Studio, AI Presence, Playlist Manager, Show Scheduler, and Analytics.
Build your venue and creative presence
Use the Venue Builder to configure your Portals 3D room — particle effects, lighting, stage layout. Generate custom 3D props with AI. Set up your avatar. Create AI NPCs that represent you 24/7.
Your venue is a permanent URL. Build it once, use it forever. The 3D Prop Studio generates GLB files ready to drop straight into Portals.
Set up your music and schedule
Build playlists from uploaded tracks or URLs — audio, video, or mixed. Set time-based schedules with day-of-week rules and timezone support. Your venue stays active between shows.
The Playlist Scheduler keeps your venue alive even when you're not performing. Fans who drop in hear the right music at the right time.
Schedule your show and invite fans
Create a show listing — date, time, genre, description, capacity. It auto-generates a public listing page. Share your venue link. Fans RSVP, get a confirmation email, and a reminder 1 hour before showtime.
Your show link is permanent — run it for a one-off set or recurring shows. Fans need zero accounts or downloads to enter.
Screenshare your stage. Perform.
Start screensharing your DAW, your camera, or your visuals directly into the stage screen. Spatial audio does the rest — fans closer to the stage hear you louder.
The screenshare audio feeds into the spatial audio system. It responds exactly like sound in a physical venue. That's not streaming. That's presence.
Read the room. React to the crowd.
Watch your fans move through the space in real time. You control the room — choose Broadcast mode (you speak, fans listen), Community mode (open conversation), or Silent mode (private DMs between fans, no voice interruptions). Fans can message each other privately without breaking the performance.
The room is alive. It's not a comment feed. It's a crowd that can actually talk to each other.
Ready to get started?
Artist or fan — your stage (or seat) is waiting. No downloads. No gatekeeping.