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
An OmniLED Globe anchors Musco’s “We Make It Happen” Experience Center, creating an immersive storytelling experience. Designed for bright, open environments, the globe showcases Musco’s global impact through dynamic 360° visualization powered by OmniLED technology.
At Stanford University’s David Rumsey Map Center, a custom 8K GeoDome Globe by The Elumenati transforms over 20 historical maps into an interactive, spherical experience.
In a GeoDome Panorama, guests at an event were immersed in a film created to tell stories of the Lummi Nation and their traditional practices.
WorldViewer brings the Wicked Witch’s Crystal Ball to life for museum guests on a 75cm GeoDome Globe, with gesture-driven interactivity.
The Arcadia Valley R-II School District uses their GeoDome Theater for outreach. WorldViewer and the OpenPlayground for Astronomy support STEAM education through fulldome movies, night sky astronomy, and 360° videos.
Inside an 8m GeoDome Theater, attendees at this year’s Scuba Show explored the undersea world with 360° video content created by Akuario360.
With a mission of exploring the ocean and bringing it back to the world, OceanX Education connects learners with cutting edge ocean research – now using a GeoDome Portal.
The Vanderbilt’s new GeoDome Theater will drive an outreach program in K12 schools, libraries, nursing homes, and community events around Long Island, with OpenSpace for live astronomy programming.
The Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS) in Fort Lauderdale, FL delivers space education programs to students of all ages across Broward County.
A GeoDome Panorama creates an immersive learning lab in the Learning with Data classroom in the new Richard Gilder Center at the American Museum of Natural History.
Pfluger brings their 4.5m GeoDome Panorama to trade shows and client offices for architectural design review. The immersive space is ideal for presenting spatial concepts, and the social, collaborative experience is ideal for connecting with clients.
Funded by a NASA grant, the new GeoDome Panorama is part of a STEM learning program for urban 7th and 8th graders to learn how to explore the Solar System and navigate the surfaces of the Moon and Mars using OpenSpace.
A new 1.2m-diameter GeoDome Globe in the lobby of the Angelo State University Planetarium will provide state-of-the-art learning and research opportunities for ASU students, as well as an exciting new element for community visitors of all ages.
Social, collaborative VR experiences are part of innovative programming for PK-12 students at Augusta Prep’s new STEM education building. Our 6.8m-diameter turnkey solution is ideal for the immersive learning lab use case.
The Eye Planetarium at SMWV is now a GeoDome Evolver with cross-cove projection. WorldViewer’s Open Playground for Astronomy drives Earth and space science programs, with show control integration to support lighting control, complex audio, and a remote tablet docent interface.