REFLECTIONS OF THE UNIVERSE First in Russia fulldome festival “Reflections of the Universe” will take plase in Valentina Tereshkova Cultural and Educational Center in Yaroslavl at October 21-21 2013. Planetarium is one of the amazing inventions of the 20th century. It was born in Germany – the German engineers of «Carl Zeiss Jena» factory invented, produced and […]
vDome Update: Fulldome Development for Interactive Immersive Training : Entry 7 – Interactivity Achieved in the Digital Dome
We are very excited to announce that with the vDome software, we have achieved real-time interactivity! Now we can VJ in the dome, hook up external sensors and the audience can generate interactive content such as painting generated by movement, and we can move an avatar within a 3D environment. We are developing a public […]
vDome Update: Fulldome Development for Interactive Immersive Training : Entry 6 – Calibration, Color, and Blending
Development of the vDome software prototype continued last month as we move closer to our projected completion date of September 20, 2012 for the prototype. Last month we finalized the spatial calibration tools and began adding color correction and edge blending to the software. We decided to push for the completion of the Max prototype by the […]
IAIA and UNM Students Showcase Chaco Canyon Fulldome Show Friday, June 29, 5pm to 6pm at the Digital Dome @ IAIA
Friday, June 29 from 5pm to 6pm student participants from UNM and IAIA from this year’s summer dome internship share their work. The workshop was lead by John Strawn and facilitated by Ethan Bach. Student will discuss their experience with high resolution spherical HDR photography and fulldome production. They will highlight images and a share […]
vDome Calibrated: Fulldome Development for Interactive Immersive Training : Entry 5
vDome development at the Digital Dome @ IAIA continues as we add features to the software. Last post we were able to successfully run a 2k movie clip at 30 fps, but our calibration was off. We decided to start from the ground up. Today, we were able to get a near perfect calibration with […]
vDome, The Real-Time Dome Projection Application: Fulldome Development for Interactive Immersive Training : Entry 4
In pursuit of our goal to run dome masters from a single computer with a full 2k resolution and 30fps, here at the Institute of American Indian Arts, we have been working steadfast. With the expertise of our software developer, Charles Veasey, we believe we have a solution – vDome. Charles often uses the Max […]
How to Control the Digital Dome with your iPad: Fulldome Development for Interactive Immersive Training : Entry 3
We have become tired of giving presentations from behind a computer so, we decided to figure out a solution where we could control the DigitalSky 2 interface with an iPad. This solution will work for any fulldome software application, but for this blog entry we will be using SkySkan’s DigitalSky 2 software. DigitalSky 2 runs […]
Fulldome Development for Interactive Immersive Training : Entry 2
In continuing to work with MadMapper in the dome, we loaded up a dome master calibration grid. Last test, we used images with MapMapper and had good results. We decided use the grid to achieve more accuracy. We first placed the grid on the dome using DigitalSky 2 software so we could see what it […]