PLANETARIUMS
Staffan Klashed SCISS
Dome visualisation that gives guests lasting memories
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weden’s Sciss has created a new way for experts – whether astronauts, astronomers or neu- roscientists – to tell their unique stories live to audiences in dome theatres around the world simultaneously. “We build these beautiful, modern theatres and we equip them with powerful visualisation capabilities. And we know from past experience that audiences react extremely well to live and interactive visualisations, especially when presented by the very scientists whose data we’re using,” says Staffan Klashed, principal of Sciss, explaining the idea. The result is Domecasting, a feature inside the company’s software Uniview, which is the beating heart of its Colorspace line of high end hardware and display systems. Domecasting packages data visualisation in a redistributable form, and synchronises presentations
Uniview is a feature- rich astronomical visualization and universal data exploration platform
“The technology uses state synchronisation to ensure
the visualisation is the same in all participating theatres”
Sciss theatres become gateways to understanding and appreciating science, says Staffan Klashed
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and interactions with this data over the internet. The technology uses state synchronisation to ensure the visualisation is the same in all participating theatres. “Domecasting allows a presenter to broadcast interactive visualisations to multiple dome theatres at the same time,” says Klashed. “The presenter can reach a much larger audience with a single pres- entation than he or she would by travelling to a particular site, and dome theatres can offer a more exciting and varied type of programming to their audiences.” In early March, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois, hosted an intriguing Domecasting event. Michael E. Brown, the 2012 Kavli Prize Laureate in Astrophysics, delivered a presentation there, entitled
Tales from the Outer Solar System. The special event was Domecasted live to three other dome theatres in the US – the planetariums of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado, the Peoria Riverfront Museum in Illinois, and the Flandrau Science Center in Tucson, Arizona – meaning the same presentation was given to dome theatres using four completely different display systems, including the true 8K display at the Adler. Another feature offered by Sciss is Neurotours, a presentation which uses three-dimensional neuroscientific data from scientists to give visitors unusual and thrill- ing dome-format film experiences, such as wandering through neurons or climbing the surface facets of the cerebral cortex. “Display systems are growing increasingly powerful. We’ve now seen digital theatre systems that rival the quality of film,” says Klashed. “The area where we really want to excel is when we bring the beauty and power of interactive, live visualisation into these high-end systems. That’s when our theatres become gateways to understanding and appreciating science. That’s when education and entertainment meet and we leave audiences with lasting memories, wanting to come back for more.”
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