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 East Village Planetarium is powered by a GeoDome Evolver with WorldViewer and OpenPlayground for Astronomy. We first installed the system in 2013, and have worked together to upgrade and keep the system current for a broad range of programming.
Audiences gathered around a floor-mounted 1.5m-diameter Compass. An OmniFocus 4K projection system at 10,000 lumens is integrated with an acrylic hemisphere and IG into a single unit.
A member of the GeoDome Network since 2008, the Mankato Planetarium upgraded to a current Evolver last year and repurposed the old OmniFocus 200 series projection system in a customized 75cm GeoDome Globe.
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.
We updated West Virginia University’s Planetarium and Observatory with a GeoDome Evolver. The cross-cove design opens up the center of the dome, and offers 3750 pixels fulldome at 22,000 lumens, plus WorldViewer and OpenPlayground for Astronomy to expand dome content.
From local history with immersive tours of Revolutionary War battlefields, to the edges of the Solar System – WorldViewer enables interactive learning on a range of STEAM topics in the new Teleporter experience in a GeoDome Panorama.
Mankato East upgraded its 9m Spitz planetarium with the GeoDome Evolver, placing an OmniFocus projector behind the existing optomechanical system.
A teacher using this immersive learning lab said “I knew it would be cool, but I had no idea how much content and discussion we would get out of it! My students were so excited, and they learned so much.”
A GeoDome Globe is part of a biodiversity exhibit at Skansen. Content built in WorldViewer explores climate change with a critical lens, and inspires Skansen visitors to be part of solutions.
The 1.2m GeoDome Globe lets guests explore the heritage of Walmart, with a geography-based interactive built in WorldViewer and custom 360° animations enabling guests to see the growth of the company over time.
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.
A customized 5m-diameter GeoDome Panorama for ISODESIGN toured the UK as part of the StoryTrails project. The largest immersive media storytelling project ever produced in the UK, the project used AR, VR and Immersive Cinema to create a snapshot of the UK.
We updated Adventure Science Center’s Worlds of Wonder globe now features a new OmniFocus system that blends two 4K laser projectors. WorldViewer drives a fresh exhibit exploring the planets in our solar system with datasets created for NOAA’s Science on a Sphere.
Sara Schultz, Planetarium Director, says: “I love working with Elumenati and being a part of the GeoDome network. WorldViewer allows me to create truly multimedia experiences that can incorporate so much more content than only what is originally created for a planetarium.”