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
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.”
A 1.5m GeoDome Globe is the centerpiece of the new Exploranation Lab, where visualization technology meets research data. WorldViewer drives data-based interactive experiences on sustainability and climate for visitors to the cross-disciplinary collaborative Visualization Center.
A dual-projector OmniFocus solution fills the dome with projected imagery of migrating butterflies and flashing fireflies, in a Unity project ported into the custom configuration with WorldViewer and SuperCubeMapper.
We’ve worked with SESE since their opening in 2012, and we’re thrilled that they have updated their globe with a new dual-4K OmniFocus projection to showcase the custom content they create with WorldViewer.
WorldViewer powers a unique gesture-driven user interface for the hanging 2.5m LED sphere. Visitors choose and navigate through 360° content including global datasets and NASA JPL’s Eyes on the Earth.
We upgraded image quality, increased immersion, and simplified operations in the 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.
On the 1.2m GeoDome Globe, visitors explore Earth and space science through NASA’s Eyes on the Earth and WorldViewer Stories – turnkey content pieces from our online community resource.
Powered by WorldViewer, the globe showcases Deep Time Maps™ plate tectonics with a customized localization showing the location of the museum from 600 MYA (million years ago) to today, with a touchscreen for user-driven interactive experiences.
A GeoDome Evolver with a customized dual-mode projection system – fulldome movies, tours of the Universe and night-sky astronomy with flat-screen movies and even Powerpoint, all driven by WorldViewer.
The Science Panorama is an immersive theater with a 7m OpenDome Panorama, an OmniFocus 500 series projection system, and a kiosk for interactive exploration of Earth and space science with WorldViewer and NASA’s Eyes.
Visitors explore dynamic ultra-high resolution Evryscope images, zooming into locations and launching videos on topics like exoplanets with safe, hands-free interactivity through WorldViewer’s gesture sensor support.
We brought the school district’s Magic Planet back to life with OmniFocus projection and WorldViewer. K-12 students interact with Earth science on the globe to experience their curriculum in 360°.
Now home to a GeoDome Evolver, the planetarium is excited to be the first installation of WorldViewer’s Open Playground Astronomy extension featuring support for Stellarium through a single user interface.
We updated the 500 series projection system and installed custom 7.1 audio. WorldViewer manages all show control, integrating A/V, lighting, and power with the trailer’s complex structure via simple touchscreen and tablet interfaces.
Lobby visitors explore current research from Mines, enabled for the globe with WorldViewer’s custom scripting capabilities, plus NOAA’s Science on a Sphere and NASA JPL’s Eyes on the Earth.