My recent keynote from the ix Symposium at the Society for Arts and Technology about the deep history of spherical immersion:

https://vimeo.com/98586298

May 21-25, Montreal

Société des Arts Technologiques

http://ix.sat.qc.ca/?language=e

The ix Symposium welcomes artists, researchers, educators, producers and distributors to share knowledge and experience about immersive and interactive technologies and about the art arising from them. It also welcomes broader…

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The beauty of mechanics...

http://vimeo.com/57691682

http://worldviews.net/earth-migrations-and-the-human-effect/

Event Date: December 18, 2012

Location: Hayden Planetarium Space Theater (Enter at 81st Street), New York, NY

Time: 7 pm

Registration required: Call 212-769-5200

Tickets:…

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The Elumenati were invited by 350.org to bring the GeoDome to provide a really big picture perspective during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. In addition to the Digital Universe Atlas, we used Uniview's Geoscope module to visualize CO2 emissions scenarios from the Sustainability Institute's Climate Interactive, biodiversity layers from CalAcademy, and global change data from NASA and…

Visualizing the Transcalar Imaginary will be presented in the Verkershaus Planetarium in Lucerne, Switzerland, on January 17. It will be part of the eighth Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics, and Aesthetics, a two-day conference which will bring together a group of internationally renowned scientists, sociologists, philosophers, ecologists, writers, artists, and policy-makers.… Continue

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/technology/business-computing/02compute.html?_r=1

"To that point, Microsoft has developed a projection system that lets people manipulate large video images with their hands. Using this technology, Microsoft’s researchers projected an image of the known universe onto a homemade cardboard dome and then… Continue

“There’s nothing like it in the world,” says host JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, the brain-parent of this enormous round room, this gateway to immersive media experiential bliss. She’s not exactly right — there have been large immersive theaters since the early 1990s — but the Allosphere is both more immersive and less subjective, according to its proponents, as you will soon see.…



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http://www.crn.com/hardware/209904446

Engineers John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Yonggang Huang of Northwestern University, Chicago have created an electronic eye-shaped camera that uses a new class of electronics technology that can conform to almost any shape of a human eye. The new retina-like camera sensor uses flexible photosensitive pixels.

given the intolerably busy schedules of everyone involved in fulldome-related obsessions, we're trying out this social network designed by none other than marc andreessen of mosaic and network fame. give it a go and let us know what you think...