Staged vs Steel
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Staged compared with Steel
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| What it does | Virtual monitor for games in a movable window, with apps visible on one screen
| GPU-accelerated rigid-body dynamics solver for robot learning
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| Stage | Startup
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| Founded | 2024
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| Based in | Not given
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| Pricing model | Paid
| Open source
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| Pricing | €14.99 (launch price, regular price €19.99). Free demo with full features for 2 hours.
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| Key features | - Virtual display creation for games
- Zone Editor with drag-and-drop layout customization
- Game Mode with cursor lock to prevent accidental clicks
- Auto-Arrange apps to zones on game launch
- Dimming Mode to fade surrounding apps
- Steam, Epic, GOG and Xbox game library integration
- Full 144 Hz capture frame-for-frame
- Discord Rich Presence and status details
- Custom resolution support from 1080p to 8K
- Browser URL zones for auto-launching guides and streams
| - 3.8× PhysX throughput on 20 benchmarks geometric mean
- 13.0× performance on heterogeneous task mixtures
- Per-environment work scheduling for efficiency
- Reduced-coordinate articulation dynamics
- Differentiable simulation
- Rigid-deformable coupling support
- Compliant and hydroelastic contact
- 62% less GPU memory than PhysX at matched batch size
- 3.90 million environment steps per second peak throughput
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| What makes it different | - Up to 2× FPS gain by rendering games at lower resolution on high-resolution displays
- Native fullscreen performance and sub-frame latency with zero compositor overhead
- No game hooks or injection—games run completely untouched
- Direct native input with under 0.2 ms processing overhead
- Single monitor setup eliminating need for multiple displays or alt-tabbing
| - Designed for heterogeneous workloads with different robots and tasks simulated together efficiently
- Integrated into open-source Newton for seamless adoption without separate physics stack
- Supports diverse physical interactions beyond rigid bodies
- Enables scaling of diverse robot experience for general-purpose learning
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 10 ● no change since last check | 67 ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 0 | 24 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 9 | 40 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 2 | 2061 |
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