The Eye Planetarium at the Science Museum of Western Virginia is now home to a GeoDome Evolver with a cross-cove projection system producing a 4K fulldome image at 24,000 lumens. The automatic camera-calibrated blending and Elumenati’s advanced black level uplift algorithms insure a uniform image, from bright colorful movies to moonless night sky images. A single Elumenati Core IG (rackmount image generating computer) drives the system, with WorldViewer as the immersive content engine. Our OpenPlayground Astronomy extension for WorldViewer enables the planetarium team to operate OpenSpace, Stellarium, WorldWide Telescope and NASA’s Eyes platforms within the WorldViewer user interface. They’re also using our Science on a Sphere Browser – a WorldViewer composition and a drive that lets them preview datasets created for NOAA’s Science on a Sphere, and include them in WorldViewer presentations.

With WorldViewer’s show control integration capabilities, the planetarium team can script and control DMX/Art-Net lighting in the same interface. Network based audio is active 5.1, with mixing and wired and wireless microphone systems fully integrated. WorldViewer also serves up a remote tablet interface, allowing docents to lead shows anywhere inside the planetarium.