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
When we began work on our exhibition, it was our dream to transport visitors around the world. With the help of the Elumenati’s amazing GeoDome Panorama and WorldViewer, that dream became a reality. Children and families are immersed in, and can marvel at, mosque architecture from Italy to Iran, from the Maldives to Morocco.
— Andrew Ackerman / Executive Director, Children’s Museum of Manhattan
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 first touchscreen-driven installation in the US of OpenSpace! In a GeoDome Portal, audiences explored immersive stories about the ways Jewish people have contributed to the space program, in a recent exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee.
Visitors explore dynamic ultra-high resolution Evryscope images, zooming into locations and launching videos on topics like exoplanets with safe, hands-free interactivity through WorldViewer’s gesture sensor support.
Visitors will be immersed in local culture with 360° video of the iconic Balloon Festival, and soar into the stratosphere as they explore related science topics with WorldViewer in a customized 4m Portal.
Moogseum visitors learn how electricity becomes sound with a custom Unity game and synth-style knob controller. Their GeoDome Portal is lit with an OmniFocus 4K laser projector.
Children and families can dance along with world class dance companies in a GeoDome Portal with WorldViewer, in CMOM’s new Let’s Dance! exhibit.
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.
The Cave Art interactive installation uses Wii controllers inside a customized GeoDome Portal to teach museum visitors the theories of cave art with a Unity interactive.
The GeoDome Portal at RENCI brings the latest communication tools and technologies to bear on pressing problems, and illustrates the impact of development on environmental balance.
A GeoDome Portal in the Observatory classroom welcomes about 125 students a day and hosts additional shows during evening hours.
Lehigh’s GeoDome brings an outreach program to students and to families who visit the DaVinci Discovery Center of Science & Technology. It was also recently featured at a camp for students with autism.
NOAA Pacific’s GeoDome is used in local outreach programs to educate and inspire stewardship through content focused on critical issues affecting global and local ecosystems.
Several NOAA centers have GeoDome Portals or Elumenati interactive kiosks, and we’ve partnered on two recent grants awarded for environmental literacy education.