Category Archives: Blogs
Allosphere
The Allosphere Research Facility is a 3-story high spherical space in which fully immersive, interactive, stereoscopic/pluriphonic virtual environments can be experienced. Housed in the California Nanosystems Institute at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Allosphere enables works in … Continue reading
What is a Full Dome Theatre?
This short video helps shine some lumens on what a full-dome theatre is like. It is a large 6-projector installation theater with an active surround sound system. A monster of a dome. Enjoy! What the hell is fulldome? from DomeFest … Continue reading
Children of the Water
I want to share with you my all-time favorite dome show. I saw it at the 2008 Domie Awards at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. It’s breathtaking in beauty and conceptual content. Just watch.Hijos del Agua, aka Children of The … Continue reading
Mapping Festival
What a great idea: Put the world’s most cutting edge video remix/rewire/reculture techs in the same building for days on end. Words have no place here, so watch the slideshow.
Night Watch: Live Projection Exhibit
Here is an example of immersive or experiential city art. I love the idea of bringing the piece into the real world; reaching many more people than from within the confines of a gallery. In the video installation Night Watch, … Continue reading
Biosphere 2
Biosphere 2, like Earth (Biosphere 1), is a complex, evolving organism that’s not easily classified, labeled or pigeonholed. The University of Arizona’s glass-enclosed living laboratory sprawls across three acres of high desert near Oracle. It’s part laboratory, part tourist attraction, … Continue reading
Treehugger: An Immersive Eco-Adventure
This is another example of wonderful animated shows available for the full-dome environment. The global community is producing content at incredible pace and that trend will continue as immersive environments increase in popularity into the 21st century. Read more about … Continue reading
Tagged animation, dome show, environmental, fulldome, sustainability Leave a comment
Monumental Video Projection
We’re gearing up to do video work similar to what MONUMENTAL is doing over in Europe. Check it out.
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Experiential Marketing Manifesto
The IXMA stimulates business success by improving the understanding of experiential marketing and helping organizations provide effective, engaging, positive and memorable interactions with their brands. “Markets have undergone a profound transformation after decades of top-down corporate messaging. As you read … Continue reading
Experiential Marketing Experts
One of our “big brothers” and respected counterparts is Obscura Digital. As a San Fran based experiential marketing company, they’re pushing the limits of technology and art, just as we are. Take a look at some of the great work … Continue reading
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Obscura and Google Zeitgeist 2007
Obscura, Elumenati and Google worked together for an incredible dinner event for Google’s top invites last year. Check out this promotional footage from the event. It shows the dome in use as an ambient event space. Very exciting! Very Large!
Fulldome Festival 2008 Trailer
This event took place at the Adler Planetarium. We went to the IPS conference and Fulldome Summit this year, and it was the most epic pilgrimage of a profession. We recommend you look into the Egypt event coming up in … Continue reading
Spherical Metaphor for Full-dome 3D Visualization
Tagged 3D, Buckminster Fuller, data visualization, fulldome, personal dome Leave a comment