The GeoDome Theater will be featured at ARCHITECTING THE FUTURE: A World Design Science Decade 2010-2020, a public symposium at American University on June 3rd. This event will bring together the jurors, finalists, review teams, and others involved with the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. The day will feature strategy sessions exploring the best practices, leverage points […]
We collaborated with our friends at Obscura Digital and Content Interface to produce the Innovation Wall, launching this month at Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC. Visitors use touchscreens to create their own “virtual graffiti” by selecting, collaging, modifying and drawing on images and video. The users designs are projected onto a translucent surface creating a […]
We’ll be showcasing the GeoDome Portal this week at the Canadian Association of Science Centers Conference in Montreal. We’re co-exhibiting with Zeiss and hosting live Uniview presentations to explore the Universe and our place in it, from the galaxy clusters to the oil spill in the gulf. We’ll also demonstrate new interactive applications we’ve developed […]
We were proud to host the first-ever showcase of Elumenati immersive projection design technologies on April 5-9, as part of Air and Water Week at Discovery World in Milwaukee, WI. On display were our patented single-lens projection solutions and all four configurations of our portable immersive environments: the fully enclosed Theater, the open half-dome Portal, […]
The Elumenati will present The Transcalar Imaginary in the Verkershaus Planetarium in Lucerne, Switzerland, on January 17. The presentation is part of the eighth Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics, and Aesthetics, a two-day symposium that is bringing together a group of internationally renowned scientists, sociologists, philosophers, ecologists, writers, artists, and policy-makers discussing the topic of The […]
The Elumenati’s GeoDome Theater will help two organizations tell their stories at this month’s global climate summit in Copenhagen: Sweden’s Norrkoping Visualisation Centre will bring their GeoDome to the Arctic Venue, December 12-14, for interactive presentations of global climate data designed to support decision-making and public dialogue. The global climate activist organization 350.org will be […]
The Minnesota GeoDome pilot program’s success in advancing science curriculum through innovative planetarium programs has been recognized by the MN School Boards Association. The GeoDome Evolver systems at Mayo High School, Mankato East High School, and St Paul Public Schools’ Como Planetarium all use The Elumenati’s OmniFocus projectors and Uniview data visualization software. All three […]
The Elumenati are showcasing NASA JPL’s “Eyes on the Earth,” a 3D interactive realtime application for Earth science data visualization, in the GeoDome Portal at the Association of Science-Technology Centers conference in Fort Worth, Oct. 31 – Nov. 2. Used primarily for public outreach, “Eyes on the Earth” is a cross-platform, browser-based application that brings […]
The GeoDome is featured in Andrew Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times, used as an example of ways we can “translate the astonishing and growing power to monitor, visualize and share information about human activities and their impacts in ways that foster social and environmental progress.” Revkin references a conversation he had […]
The Elumenati presented Perceiving Home: An Ecological Tour of the Cosmos to two packed showings at San Francisco’s California Academy of Sciences on October 3. Perceiving Home is an immersive journey across vast scales of time and space, revealing the systemic interconnections that create and sustain life. Using a combination of Earth data layers, the Digital Universe Atlas, and […]
Our friends at Obscura Digital in San Francisco hosted the GeoDome Theater for an evening of presentations for Bay Area friends and family on October 4. David McConville presented The Transcalar Imaginary: Visualizing World Views, an exploration of humanity’s perceptions of the world. Crafted using Uniview’s interactive data visualization platform, The Transcalar Imaginary illuminates various […]
On Wednesday, October 7th, the GeoDome Theater was featured at the White House ‘Star Party,’ an event hosted by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Dr. D’nardo Colucci of The Elumenati set up the GeoDome Theater on the White House lawn, and gave interactive dome presentations to […]
The GeoDome Theater has just returned from its first appearance in the Southern hemisphere, where it toured Australia showcasing educational technology with AARNET (Australian Academic Research Network). Events included: – July 7-10: QUESTNet, a conference celebrating the use of networking and technology in education – July 18: At Questacon Canberra, series of domecasts celebrating the […]
The Elumenati Lab in Milwaukee worked with students, faculty and staff at Milwaukee Area Technical College on “Virtual Milwaukee,” an accurate computer-generated version of the city based on real terrain and infrastructure data. It’s a tool that can connect to traffic, weather and other data so the virtual world can act as city planning software. […]
Manuel Lima of VisualComplexity has a post on the GeoDome, including wise words on the power of data visualization to enrich the global effort of building a responsive public awareness for sustainability. VisualComplexity.com is a resource that explores different visualization methods across a series of disciplines…