Press Releases (2009)
12 September 2009 Central Texas College’s Mayborn Planetarium goes Digital with Global Immersion
Global Immersion has completed the full-scale digital upgrade of Mayborn Planetarium and Space Theater at Central Texas College in Killeen, TX, USA. The 5-channel Fidelity Bright fulldome solution employs a wide range of exciting technologies to allow the facility to support their extensive show portfolio in the 60-ft (18.3 meter) dome. More...
01 September 2009
Global Immersion appoints Bill Schmidt as Director of New Media and Visualization
Global Immersion is pleased to announce the appointment of Bill Schmidt as Director of New Media and Visualization. With more than twenty-five years of cross-continent experience working within the visual display systems industry, Schmidt’s expertise brings a solid understanding of high performance technologies and global markets to Global Immersion’s US operations. More...
29 August 2009
National Space Centre Planetarium becomes latest Global Immersion DIY install
The latest fulldome solution to be supplied by Global Immersion and installed by the client has opened to the public at the National Space Centre in Leicester. The Space Theatre is the UK’s largest planetarium and now home to a six-channel Fidelity Bright projection system. More...
01 July 2009
Global Immersion Wins Award for Planetarium at California Academy of Sciences
Global Immersion has been presented with an ARCHI-TECH AV Award in recognition of its recent work at Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, USA. The awards were presented at the 2009 InfoComm International AV awards ceremony, held on June 17th in Orlando, Florida. More...
02 March 2009
One of Highest Attended Planetariums in Europe Upgrades With Global Immersion - High Fidelity Solution Optimized and Integrated into Futuroscope Fulldome Theater
Global Immersion has supplied a Fidelity Bright™ digital fulldome solution to Destination Cosmos at the Futuroscope theme park in Poitiers, France. The planetarium re-opened on Saturday 7th February 2009 following the integration of six projectiondesign graded, matched and optimized projector units – the result of a unique process facilitated by Global Immersion following years of experience and co-development with the Norwegian projector manufacturer. More...
20 February 2009
High-Powered, Open-Architecture Fulldome Server Upgrade at Thessaloniki - Planetarium to Store, Manage and Playback Uncompressed, Ultra-HD Content
Global Immersion has supplied an advanced server solution and a range of fulldome content to the planetarium at the Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum (NOESIS) in Greece. The new open-architecture Fidelity server system will allow the facility to manage, edit and playback ultra-high resolution, uncompressed content through the theater’s six-channel DLP fulldome projection system. More...
17 February 2009
Global Immersion wins InAVate Award for Fulldome and 3D at Cosmonova
Global Immersion has won the 2009 EMEA+ InAVation Award for ‘Most InAVative Leisure Project’ in recognition of its recent work at Cosmonova - the combined planetarium and IMAX dome theater at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. The two-phase project included the integration of both large-format 3D (active stereo) and digital fulldome displays within the 23-meter theater, both of which have been commended for their complexity, innovation and application of leading-edge technologies. More...
26 January 2009
HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein Officially Opens Dubai Planetarium - Royal Opening of Global Immersion System Installed by Planetarium Staff
Following the completion of a Global Immersion fulldome digital upgrade in October 2008, Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has officially opened the new Planetarium at the Children’s City Science Center, Dubai. This prestigious event was held on Tuesday 13th January, 2009, to mark the launch of Dubai’s largest and most advanced digital Planetarium. More...
