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 Arcadia Valley R-II School District uses their GeoDome Theater for outreach. WorldViewer and the OpenPlayground for Astronomy support STEAM education through fulldome movies, night sky astronomy, and 360° videos.
Inside an 8m GeoDome Theater, attendees at this year’s Scuba Show explored the undersea world with 360° video content created by Akuario360.
The Vanderbilt’s new GeoDome Theater will drive an outreach program in K12 schools, libraries, nursing homes, and community events around Long Island, with OpenSpace for live astronomy programming.
The Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS) in Fort Lauderdale, FL delivers space education programs to students of all ages across Broward County.
The Sacred Places exhibit features a custom 7.3m-diameter Theater with a blended dual OmniFocus projection system. WorldViewer supports both docent-led and user-driven experiences.
ERI’s GeoDome Theater provides immersive programming as part of a FEMA-funded outreach program that informs and engages the people of Puerto Rico about climate change and natural disaster mitigation.
An outreach program explores Australia’s unique biodiversity and Indigenous heritage with “The Earth Above” fulldome movie, created in collaboration with indigenous communities. Outreach will extend from the UOW community to the remote area where research and filming occurred.
The GeoDome Theater provides family fun for passengers of all ages on more than ten of Princess Cruise Lines’ ships with an immersive voyage to the stars.
“At least one person from each group told me they had never had an experience with content like this before,” said Ian Carr, Save the Children’s Director of Technology Innovation.
The Bell Museum + Planetarium Exploradome uses a GeoDome Theater to bring the wonders of the universe to schools and community sites. They’re the founding member of a network of GeoDomes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North & South Dakota.
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.
Upgraded in 2017 to 4K projection, a GeoDome Theater is the University of Toronto’s main planetarium, with live astronomy shows using WorldViewer and Uniview.
The museum uses its GeoDome Theater to promote the understanding of history, science and service, and its newly upgraded 6′ globe for interactive exploration of NASA’s Eyes.
The Metro Dome project at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota will use their GeoDome Theater system in a variety of ways — including undergraduate education, community engagement, and other science outreach programs.
UM – Duluth’s GeoDome Theater portable planetarium uses WorldViewer, the Open Playground Astronomy suite, and NASA’s Eyes in its community science outreach program.