IDIA Lab at Ball State University — GeoDome Panorama
In a custom 8m Panorama with a single 270° screen, audiences explore cultural heritage topics in IDIA Labs’ Unity-based VR projects across the arts, sciences, medicine and the humanities.
Check out some of the projects we’re particularly proud of. These reflect the quality of our solutions and our inventive approach to helping clients create unparalleled immersive experiences.
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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
In a custom 8m Panorama with a single 270° screen, audiences explore cultural heritage topics in IDIA Labs’ Unity-based VR projects across the arts, sciences, medicine and the humanities.
The Panorama is part of an exhibit that tells the story of Life in the Universe. Using Leap Motion and WorldViewer, we created a custom application to kick off guests’ interactive experiences.
On the 4′ globe in the ESC, Eyes on the Earth is enabled for spherical display through Omnity and our dev collaboration with JPL. WorldViewer drives multiple displays through a single interface.
Big data and complex concepts come to life in the Cloud Theater, NetApp’s executive briefing center. We provided a dual-projector OmniFocus solution with WorldViewer for our clients at ASG, NetApp’s AV ecosystem provider.
Museum visitors interact with information on a custom-designed lobby display lit by edge-blended projectors, with content driven by WorldViewer.
Hey, we made a video! Our co-founder, D’nardo Colucci, narrates the evolution of The Elumenati and VR technologies.
The Neurological Rehabilitation VR project is using a customized GeoDome Panorama with their OptiTrack Motion Tracking system.
We created a custom 7m Panorama with OmniFocus projection, which took up to 20 guests on an immersive 3D journey into Cave 45.
32′ in diameter, the Cyclorama features four edge-blended OmniFocus projectors with laser light engines. WorldViewer delivers 120 Hz stereo content at 4K resolution per screen from a single rack mount computer.
One of our most versatile installations — featuring the full complement of immersive software for Earth and space science — this dynamic theater engages visitors in seamless interactive tours.
Developed through a collaboration with hospital staff and U+B Architecture and Design, this unique projection wall creates a sensory escape for patients as they use the Kinect to create patterns that imitate the natural flow of ripples and currents in water.
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 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.
We designed a 360-degree panorama, 42 ft in diameter and 16 ft high. Four OmniFocus 600 series projectors filled the space with active stereo content at 4k resolution, all running on a single PC through an Omnity-based software solution.
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.
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