VR headsets are great, but very individualized. The GeoDome Panorama enhances teachers' lessons in a collaborative environment. Our teachers say the students are more engaged. They're asking more questions, they're pointing out and making connections between things that they haven't done in past years.
— Daniel Forrester / Associate Director, PEAK Institute, HIES View Project
When we learned about Elumenati’s ability to distribute content across flat screens in multiple locations, we were able to adapt our approach to the entire experience that people have as they come through the zoo.
— Bill Street / Senior Vice President of the Indianapolis Zoo, Director of the Global Center for Species Survival
Our collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences continued in 2021 as we upgraded the SECU Daily Planet, a three-story theater with a 42-foot-tall screen. A blended projection system is driven by a customized image generator and WorldViewer’s Open Playground extension.
Visitors experience the projected content from all three floors of the Nature Research Center. View Project
Our need to create a large immersive screening space in just a few hours with a couple of technicians, whilst also presenting a striking looking installation could only have been delivered via the GeoDome. The Elumenati team developed a bespoke solution for StoryTrails and offered invaluable support across the design, testing and programming stages.
--Damien Smith, Principal, ISO Design View Project
WorldViewer delivers on a perfect scale - it’s easy to add content, interactivity and user interfaces, and powerful enough to mix layers of content to tell a compelling story. As a developer, I appreciate the ability to incorporate other real-time software with WorldViewer as the front end. The complete GeoDome Globe package integrates hardware and software in an uncomplicated design.
--Erik Sunden, CTO, Visualisation Center - C at Linnkoping University, Sweden View Project
The Cyclorama allows us to create a shared, stereoscopic VR experience for dozens of simultaneous viewers. With WorldViewer we can load content from 360 video rigs, 3D animation, and real-time game engines. Our project had many unique requirements, and The Elumenati showed tremendous flexibility to meet these goals.
— Zach Duer / Immersive Environment Specialist, Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology
Aligning the globe’s interface with the Mines brand was important to us. We were able to customize everything from the text to the button style and colors so it matched our university look and feel. It was quite impressive how well The Elumenati team made our vision come to life in such a short turnaround time.
— Christina Vessa / Brand Manager, Communications and Marketing
The GeoDome Panorama allows the Bell Museum staff to incorporate new media to keep content in the exhibit current, such as displaying video of the launch of Parker Solar Probe, exploring a Mars dust storm, and celebrating NASA’s 60th anniversary. We also use the daily updated NASA Eyes software.
--Sally Brummel / Planetarium Manager
Our new Elumenati projection system has made our 6′ Magic Planet come to life. The brightness and quality of the projected image make a major difference in the impact the globe makes on viewers. We are extremely happy and look forward to adding more content for our guests to explore.
—- Chuck Kopczak / Curator of Ecology
The GeoDome Panorama enables Magnopus to create immersive experiences for our wide range of clientele, and is the perfect environment for group virtual reality reviews during our creative process.
— Ben Grossman / Magnopus Co-founder
People told me they had never had an experience with content like this before. The vast majority of people wanted to stay and watch all of our content. People in all age ranges were really invested in each story – even a group of teenage boys who were joking around when they came in came to me afterward to tell me how emotional and compelling our work was.
—- Ian Carr / Director of Technology Innovation, Save the Children
I love working with Elumenati and being a part of the GeoDome Network. I have been able to create amazing experiences for my audiences using WorldViewer that I never could have otherwise.
--Sara Schultz, Planetarium Manager, Minnesota State University - Moorhead
The Eye Planetarium at SMWV is now a GeoDome Evolver with cross-cove projection. WorldViewer’s Open Playground for Astronomy drives Earth and space science programs, with show control integration to support lighting control, complex audio, and a remote tablet docent interface.
The East Village Planetarium is powered by a GeoDome Evolver with WorldViewer and OpenPlayground for Astronomy. We first installed the system in 2013, and have worked together to upgrade and keep the system current for a broad range of programming.
We updated West Virginia University’s Planetarium and Observatory with a GeoDome Evolver. The cross-cove design opens up the center of the dome, and offers 3750 pixels fulldome at 22,000 lumens, plus WorldViewer and OpenPlayground for Astronomy to expand dome content.
Mankato East upgraded its 9m Spitz planetarium with the GeoDome Evolver, placing an OmniFocus projector behind the existing optomechanical system.
Sara Schultz, Planetarium Director, says: “I love working with Elumenati and being a part of the GeoDome network. WorldViewer allows me to create truly multimedia experiences that can incorporate so much more content than only what is originally created for a planetarium.”
A GeoDome Evolver with a customized dual-mode projection system – fulldome movies, tours of the Universe and night-sky astronomy with flat-screen movies and even Powerpoint, all driven by WorldViewer.
Now home to a GeoDome Evolver, the planetarium is excited to be the first installation of WorldViewer’s Open Playground Astronomy extension featuring support for Stellarium through a single user interface.
The planetarium at West Springfield High School is now a GeoDome Evolver for live interactive astronomy shows, with a 4K OmniFocus projection system and our Open Playground Astronomy extension for WorldViewer.
Mayo upgraded to a 4K laser projection system in 2019, along with WorldViewer’s Open Playground Astronomy extension.
We replaced a complex cluster system with WorldViewer’s Open Playground to launch a suite of astronomy applications, including OpenSpace.
Active since 2006, the GeoDome Network is a group of educators who collaborate and share resources for Earth and space science education in every kind of GeoDome, with WorldViewer to drive a suite of astronomy applications.
University of Minnesota Duluth’s Marshal W. Alworth Planetarium chose our 200 Series-based GeoDome Evolver system for facility upgrades during the summer of 2015. The GeoDome Evolver system is used primarily for their public outreach program. Traditional planetarium programs are offered in addition to touring the known Universe via Uniview. Alongside traditional programming the planetarium will […]
Wauwatosa West High School Planetarium chose our 200 Series based GeoDome Evolver system for their facility renovation effort during the summer of 2015. The GeoDome Evolver system is used primarily for K-12 astronomy education. The Gary E. Sampson Planetarium serves on-campus students, the local school district schools, as well as schools from surrounding areas. A […]
The immersive 3D theater seats 75 in a truncated 14m-diameter perforated aluminum dome. We guided the truncated design. A four-projector blended solution fills the dome with active stereo (3D) projection, driven by Omnity and running on a single image generating computer.
At the Connecticut Science Center, students from school systems in the Hartford metro area are using WorldViewer to learn Earth science and astronomy, working in teams to create projects for final presentations on the dome. An OmniFocus 200 series projection system lights up the 9m planetarium dome, and content also includes Eyes on the Solar […]