Press Releases (2008)
07 November 2008 First Ever Combined Large-Format 3D and Fulldome Theater at Cosmonova - Hybrid Digital Theater Design Open to Public at Swedish Museum of Natural History
The Cosmonova theater at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (SMNH), Stockholm has undergone an innovative digital display upgrade introducing a 23-meter fulldome display as well as a partial dome 3D theater experience. The 262 seat planetarium now displays high-resolution, crisp and colourful content in a 180° environment, in addition to a 17-meter (56-foot), windowed 3D display projected across the dome surface. Global Immersion integrated Fidelity 3D™ and Fidelity Bright™ solutions to fulfil the two projects requirements, including full theater and content management, control, automation and playback systems. More...
14 October 2008
Eco-Friendly Immersive Theater Launched at New California Academy of Sciences - New Green Morrison Planetarium Showcases Global Immersion Collaboration
After years of planning and implementation, the new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, has completed its $488 million upgrade and relocation, with a grand public opening on Saturday 27th September 2008. Within the new ‘green’ Academy building is the Morrison Planetarium, which has seen the integration of a Global Immersion Fidelity Bright fulldome display solution that supports the Academy in its mission to educate visitors about our Earth and its surroundings. More...
22 September 2008
Dubai is seeing stars after Country's first Fidelity Bright Display Installation - Global Immersion fulldome system installed entirely by Planetarium staff
The Children’s City Science Center, Dubai has upgraded its planetarium - contracting Global Immersion to supply the fulldome display and theater management system. The updated Science Center dome is now home to Global Immersion’s first project in Dubai: an ultra-high resolution fulldome solution including a Fidelity Bright projection system and an advanced media storage and playback package – updating the original opto-mechanical system to a digital fulldome theater. The installation of the fulldome solution was undertaken by staff at Children’s City Planetarium following an intensive engineering training course at the Global Immersion headquarters in the South of England.
19 May 2008
The Universe is their oyster... Hampshire school competition winners off to Chicago
Two students from Cams Hill School, Fareham, have been announced as winners of the "Space Confidential" competition and are now set to travel to Chicago at the end of June with their parents for an all expenses paid trip, courtesy of Global Immersion. More...
07 May 2008
Global Immersion brightens up Gates Planetarium in Denver
The Gates Planetarium at Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), Colorado is one of the latest digital fulldome theaters to become home to a Global Immersion Fidelity Bright system. As part of the upgrade, the previous 11-channel system that was originally installed by SEOS in 2002 has now been replaced with six channels of ultra-bright projection technologies and a custom Global Immersion theater optimization package. More...
06 May 2008
Chicago trip prize winners from Fareham School to be judged at Intech final
Twenty year-ten pupils from Fareham, Hampshire, have battled for the past two months for the chance to win an all expenses paid trip to Chicago at the end of June. Managed and funded by Global Immersion, the ‘Space Confidential’ competition has seen the fourteen and fifteen year-old students working with Cams Hill Science Consortium and Professors from Arizona and Boston Universiities to research extra-solar planet discovery and the potential existence of alien life. More...
14 April 2008
Plymouth launches with truly tailored theater design
The Immersive Vision Theatre (IVT) at the University of Plymouth has now officially opened its doors to students, staff and the public. The IVT has recently undergone a full-scale Global Immersion upgrade – and is now one of the leading centres for digital fulldome technology in the country; immersing audiences in a range of complex subject matters from bio-medical or molecular structures, through to geology and fine art. More...
18 March 2008
Global Immersion completes UK’S largest digital planetarium
The UK's newest immersive theater, the INTECH Planetarium in Winchester, UK, is set to open with a VIP launch day on March 19th following a high profile pre-launch media campaign. The Fidelity Bright installation will be viewed by internationally renowned author and amateur astronomer Terry Pratchett, world-famous astronomer Sir Patrick Moore and many other prominent academic and political figures during the VIP presentation. More...
18 January 2008
Global Immersion supplying Fidelity Bright to California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has reinvented and rebuilt the historic Morrison Planetarium, selecting Global Immersion as digital display system provider and integrator. Scheduled to open in 2008 and boasting the capacity for an audience of 300, the cultural Morrison dome is now one of the world’s largest planetariums. More...
07 January 2008
Swedish Museum of Natural History and Global Immersion begin immersive upgrade
After two parallel public procurement processes, the Cosmonova theater at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (SMNH) in Stockholm has selected Global Immersion to upgrade and transform the existing theater into a state-of-the-art, fulldome technology suite. Installing advanced fulldome and partial 3D capabilities, the new theater will have the ability to create, process and display a range of exciting entertainment visuals and complex data sets. More...
