June 2016

In June 2016, Fulldome.pro had five domes on display at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles, California, surrounded by industry giants like Warner Bros. Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Alienware. It was our first trip to E3 and we were there to show how domes are the next step in the evolution of 360 and VR entertainment and gaming. Over 50,000 people attended the three-day expo which explains why there was always a queue to see what was going on inside the 12 meter dome and a constant stream of visitors popping their heads into 1.6 meter Nano Dome, designed for personal home gaming. Android Jones was on hand to support Samskara including an interactive version created for the HTC Vive. He also gave demonstrations of FlowMotion, a live painting tool he had been working on.

BlackBoxTV, makers of thriller, horror and sci-fi films for YouTube, provided some of their 360 content in dome format. They have been working with us to explore the immersive possibilities of dome projection.

We also featured Labyrinth from Free Range Games, the marriage of a collectible card game and a tactical turn-based role playing game, as just one example of how domes can be used to make gaming a more immersive experience.


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Following hot on the heels of its success in Madrid, Samskara has won another award! This time the venue was the historic Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena, Germany. The FullDome Festival jury gave a Special Award for Best Short Film to Samskara, the Android Jones collaboration with 360ART (formerly FullDomeLab).

The jury also gave Honorable Mentions for outstanding and innovative productions to both Art Universe (a collaboration with Likuid Art) and our experimental short, Chiang Mai Deep Trip. Congratulations to all those who worked on these projects – keep up the good work.

For more information about the award winning films from 360Art visit – 360art.pro/products

To find out about all the winners at the 10th Jena FullDome Festival go to – fulldome-festival.de/awards

Fulldome.pro attended the IPS Fulldome Festival in Brno, Czech Republic in June 2016. We were among 150 delegates who enjoyed 66 fulldome films over three days at the Brno Observatory and Planetarium. Four shows from our studio, 360ART were featured at the festival – Samskara, Art Universe, Dino Planet and Chiang Mai Deep Trip – along with Rosetta, from our friends at Fulldome Film Society. Our favorite (besides the aforementioned) was Flower Universe from Makoto Azuma. In Flower Universe brightly colored flowers are packed densely in arrangements not seen in nature, then filmed close-up at 4K, in scenes that resemble a low-level fly-over of a planetary or lunar craft, indeed some balls of flowers spin past the lens and into the distance much like a passing planet.

Also of note was The Man from the 9 Dimensions, created for the Miraikan Museum Of Emerging Science And Innovation in Japan, by renowned Japanese horror film director Takashi Shimizu (the Ju-On series, a.k.a The Grudge). This state-of-the- art film explains complex theoretical physics, like Superstring Theory, in a bold and captivating fulldome show.

It was a great festival of sharing the latest in fulldome with old and new friends and we look forward to doing it again.