Full Dome: What is it and what can we do with it? Part One

Posted on January 15, 2012 by johncyoung

For background, you might consider reading the Wikipedia article on Full Dome. Wikipedia also lists Reuben H. Fleet Science Center as an innovator in the historical  section in 1973. This page describes  Voyage to the Outer Planets as an IMAX film, but is only partly accurate. A better description of it is that is was [...]

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  • What’s Going On?

    On March 10, 1973, the Space Theater at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center opened to the public, featuring America's first IMAX Theater and the first "tilted dome" planetarium in the world.

    On September 4, 2008, the Space Theater "went dark" for an extreme makeover! New seamless dome screen, new sound system, new seats and much more! Renovations are now complete and the theater reopened on December 13, 2008!

    The theater renovation is part of a $20 million capital campaign, "Creating Possibilities, Inspiring Tomorrow."

    On November 30th the Heikoff Dome Theater was closed for a single day while 4 of the worlds brightest, biggest video projectors were lowered into place. The following 2 months will be filled with installing and fine tuning the equipment to provide the amazing dome filling immersive visual experience called Fulldome.

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  • Who’s Blogging?

    • johncyoung = John Young, planetarium specialist and audio/visual wizard
    • maryspacetheater = Mary Anderson, console operator & Fleet historian
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