Augusta Preparatory Day School – GeoDome Panorama

Elumenati GeoDome Panorama at Augusta Prep

A GeoDome Panorama creates social, collaborative VR experiences for PK-12 students at Augusta Prep’s new STEM education building. Opened in January 2024, the W. Rodger Giles Institute for Inquiry is a unique future-facing facility with curriculum designed to prepare students for the workplaces of the future. The GeoDome Panorama sits on the first floor of the building, along with labs and classrooms where students explore the technological elements of science through coding, robotics and engineering. Teachers and students will use the GeoDome as an immersive learning lab, building interactive presentations with WorldViewer. They can explore Earth and space science with datasets created for NOAA’s Science on a Sphere, as well as our OpenPlayground for Astronomy. They can travel through animations of the human body, and explore historic locations around the world with 360° video from YouTube and other sources. We’re thrilled to support Augusta Prep’s innovative approach to education, and can’t wait to see the creative applications for shared learning they come up with. For an in-depth exploration of another immersive learning lab, see our profile on a similar system at the PEAK Institute at HIES.

Augusta Prep has our turnkey 6.8m GeoDome Panorama solution, designed for the immersive learning lab use case. A single OmniFocus projection system fills the 6.8m diameter screen with 4K imagery at 12,000 lumens, simplifying operations and maintenance. Small groups can gather inside the screen for complete immersion, but the 180° sweep means a full class of students can see the entire screen, even seated in rows of chairs or desks. The design also opens up the possibilities for incorporating media and applications created for standard displays, whether as picture-in-picture using WorldViewer’s keying and compositing features, or even live from an ancillary laptop with WorldViewer’s HDMI input. The system features 5.1 audio. Everything is driven from a rack-mounted Elumenati IG. A secondary convertible tablet computer functions as both a user interface for wireless presentations, and a development machine for building WorldViewer content outside the lab.

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