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 Elumenati supplied an OmniFocus 30530 projection system and a custom-built, negative-pressure screen inside one of Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes. Our WorldViewer software drove the presentations — an interactive exploration of the ways in which humans and Earth systems are linked, with a focus on building resilience.
The GeoDome Network expanded to include Puerto Rico when Caribbean University’s Bayamon campus acquired a GeoDome Theater. They’ll be using it for an astronomy education outreach program in public schools. In the GeoDome, DomeView Pro enables them to use a range of astronomy software platforms including Stellarium, Celestia, and Starry Night. They can also play […]
NASA Marshall acquired a Geodome Theater with Uniview in 2010.
AMNH’s GeoDome Theater will complement programming in the Hayden Planetarium, where Uniview was developed as a collaboration between NASA, AMNH, and SCISS.
The Owsley Brown II Portable Planetarium program, in a GeoDome Theater with Uniview and WorldViewer, launched in 2012.
JPL’s GeoDome Theater is the first to include Eyes on the Earth and Eyes on the Solar System, as well as Uniview and WorldViewer – the result of years of collaboration with The Elumenati.
In 2011 and 2012, thousands of people experienced Whidbey’s GeoDome Theater at its inaugural event at the Next Fifty, a six-month celebration of the anniversary of the World’s Fair in Seattle.
AARNet, Australia’s Academic and Research Network, uses a GeoDome Theater with Uniview as part of their mission to bring high-speed broadband experiences to schools to revolutionalise the 21st century curriculum.
The Visualization Center C in Sweden has a GeoDome Theater for an outreach program with real-time presentations of climate change research. It was featured at the COP15 international climate summit in 2009.
UND’s GeoDme Theater outreach program brings simulation into school-based science instruction, and their customized Evolver is used for both aerospace and astronomy education.
Richard Stockton College joined the GeoDome network in 2010 with a Theater. Their programming is based on Uniview and DomeView Pro.
GeoDome Theaters help inspire teens to understand the effects of climate change on marine mammals and be part of the solution in a collaborative project between the NC Aquarium and NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
NASA Goddard’s GeoDome Theater provides programming at its visitor center and in outreach programs. In October 2009 NASA Goddard’s GeoDome was invited to be part of a Star Party hosted on the White House lawn.
“Journey Into Space” is an outreach program that utilizes a GeoDome Theater to improve student, educator, and general public understanding of earth/space science and its relationship to NASA goals and objectives.
This three-year project links a network of participating planetariums and GeoDomes across the country and create visualizations and programming that educate audiences about global change issues.