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the audience. The Micoy software has an algorithm that creates stereo separation at a pixel level during mastering to allow viewers to experience stereo wherever they look in the dome for perfect dome 3D. Test sequences have been produced using Micoy’s software, and the tool is currently available, but with 3D fulldome fi lmmaking still in its infancy, no fi lmmaker has yet introduced it as part of the work- fl ow for mastering 3D. Simply encouraging fi lmmakers to
produce 3D fulldome content at all is a challenge when there are currently so few 3D planetariums. Mirage 3D’s Dawn of the Space Age is the fi rst and only full-length fi lm specifi cally produced in 3D for domed theatres; all other 3D titles for domes have been converted from large format titles. As part of its recent Dome Day Asia
2010 event, Sky-Skan recently held Macao Stereo Day at the Macao Science Center Planetarium, an event designed to show- case and promote 3D planetarium content. Films shown at the event included the pre- miere of Solar Storms, a 3D IMAX fi lm that Sky-Skan recently converted for the dome, which allows viewers to see the sun in stereo, and Crossing Worlds, an award-win- ning short by xRez Studios about desert canyons in the American West which was
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The price needn’t be a deterrent for new projects as the cost is negligible compared to the whole scheme
recently rendered for 8K stereoscopic view- ing specifi cally for the venue. The number of 3D fi lm titles available
to planetariums is growing, if slowly. Sky- Skan and Evans & Sutherland are both working with large format fi lm producers to convert their fi lms to digital fulldome, and E&S’ patent-pending stretching and warp- ing algorithm preserves stereoscopic 3D; Mirage 3D will soon release a new stere- oscopic title, Natural Selection; and the 2010 Jena FullDome Festival in Germany will contain a 3D entry – a four-minute full- dome clip by student Alexander Stephan for use with Chromadepth 3D glasses, which produce 3D by causing colours to appear at varying distances. Global Immersion is working on increas- ing the number of 3D fi lms available to
The Hamburg Planetarium in Germany, left, is one of just fi ve full- dome 3D planetariums in the world
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planetariums by promoting a different technique – showing 3D large format fi lms projected on only part of the dome. This way, any 3D large format title can be used without needing to be rendered for a dome. The technique still makes for an immer- sive experience, according to says Global Immersion CEO Martin Howe. “With full- dome 3D, you have to wear glasses, so you have to move your head a lot to see eve- rything around you,” he says. “In a large format 3D system in a dome, the image is still large but you don’t see the parts not covered by the dome anyway, because you have the glasses on.”
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