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"Some day in the not too distant future
you'll be able to go to a movie and
the movie will be all around you.
The movie will be over your head,
it will be 360 degrees around you"

- Steven Spielberg, TIME Magazine, 2006
 
DISCOVERY DOME EXTRAS

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Discovery Dome appears in BBC Horizon programme:
 Is Everything We Know About The Universe Wrong?
 Watch the full programme on YouTube
 

 Free pre-warped 1920x1080
fulldome content:
(Warning: large files, so right-click and Save)

Fulldome Resources:

  • Introductions to the fulldome medium can be found here and here
  • Tutorials on how to create fulldome content appear here
  • The free official fulldome community and mailing list is located here
  • Introductions to fisheye lens photography can be found here, here and here
  • A generously detailed and useful fulldome content creation blog here
  • You can even dome-enable your real-time OpenGL applications here
  • Detailed comparison of ALL fulldome projector systems can be seen here

Research:
Generally cool things:
How to use your DOME to the FULL: dazzling 360° projections; LEDs embedded in the dome; openings for special effects; superb surround sound; audience standing to take in the entire experience (keep watching until the Dragon show begins)

 

European Planetarium Network
World's Largest Video Dome Domes by Lindstrand Technologies

The Planetarium Network



Vortex Immersion Media

www.imersa.org

 


Discovery Dome Europe featured in the FutureLab Ideas Incubator

 

Domes by Oracle Projects
 

 		    

Fulldome theatres have overtaken the number of IMAX theatres worldwide, and are closing in on the total number of Large Format cinemas

 

Projector resolutions diagram from Wikipedia