Our Work | Immersive Projection Design | The Elumenati

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

Cyclorama at Virginia Tech View Project

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

GeoDome Globe at the Colorado School of Mines View Project

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

Gateway to the Universe GeoDome Panorama at the Bell Museum View Project

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

Magic Planet Upgrade at the California Science Center View Project

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

Group VR GeoDome Panorama at Magnopus View Project

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

GeoDome Theater Outreach and Experiential Marketing Program View Project

When we began work on our exhibition, it was our dream to transport visitors around the world. With the help of the Elumenati’s amazing GeoDome Panorama and WorldViewer, that dream became a reality. Children and families are immersed in, and can marvel at, mosque architecture from Italy to Iran, from the Maldives to Morocco.

— Andrew Ackerman / Executive Director, Children’s Museum of Manhattan

GeoDome Panorama - America to Zanzibar: Muslim Cultures Near and Far Traveling Exhibition View Project

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

Minnesota Regional Planetarium Network View Project

Discovery Place

At The Innovation Wall, visitors use touchscreens to create and remix “virtual graffiti” that is projected holographically on an acrylic screen.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

The Earth Science Center at NASA JPL features an Elumenati digital video globe. We installed an OmniFocus dual-projector system in 2013, which runs the Eyes software platforms as well as Global Imagination’s StoryTeller® software.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Several NOAA centers have GeoDome Portals or Elumenati interactive kiosks, and we’ve partnered on two recent grants awarded for environmental literacy education.

NVIDIA Immersive Dome

We designed a custom dome and hosted immersive shows for nearly 1000 visitors at NVIDIA’s booth at SIGGRAPH 2005.

UCLA Design | Media Arts

Celestial Mechanics is showcased in an OpenDome with OmniFocus projection. We helped the creators format their fulldome content for the Elumenati system.

Cirque du Soleil

We collaborated on custom OmniFocus displays with multiple projectors – a hot air balloon in a clown act in Varekai, and another floating over the audiences for Zaia.

Science Fiction Museum

At the interactive video globe, visitors see the planets on an internally projected sphere five feet in diameter.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

An OmniFocus digital projection system turned the planetarium at RPI into a Molecularium, an an audio-visual journey through the molecular-scale world.

Matrix Art Collective

Michael Somoroff’s art exhibit, Illumination, features a downward-facing OmniFocus projector in wrap-around panorama mode.

Chester County Intermediate School System

The Chester County intermediate School System purchased a GeoDome Theater with Uniview to share between four schools; the grant program expanded to reach K-12 students cross Pennsylvania.