August 2015

To celebrate our first five years Fulldome.pro had a party and invited guests to see what we have achieved in such a short time and share in our vision for the years ahead. The venue was the exclusive KU DÉ TA Nightclub in the heart of the Sathorn business district, Bangkok. After a brief speech welcoming those in attendance and highlighting some of our products and many successful projects, the guest mingled with our staff and enjoyed Samskara a digital journey into the mind of artist Android Jones. The 3 meter Studio Dome that had been setup for the event also provided entertainment for guest and staff alike as they joined together to battle Mesomorphs and save the planet in Earth Patrol – the world’s first fulldome game. It was a great opportunity for Fulldome.pro to talk with our customers and discuss new projects and for potential clients to to experience just a little of what we have to offer for the education, entertainment, promotion and advertising markets.

At the conclusion of the event all our equipment was quickly packed for the flight back to Fulldome Lab in Chiang Mai where the team is busy working on the next five years of exiting fulldome content and innovative products.

On Friday August 14, 2015 Samskara returned to the 20 meter (65 foot) diameter dome at the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder Colorado. Three months previously a preview version of Samskara had premiered there, but this time the completed film was a part of the inaugural Fiske Fulldome Film Festival. Samskara was included in the public showcase of more than seventy films from around the world. Audiences described it as “mind blowing” and, according to festival organizer, Thor Metzinger, Samskara was sold out in under one hour! Film critic, Elijah Davidson from Reel Spirituality stated that he had come to the festival “to see what’s really the most amazing of the most amazing – so far that’s been Samskara for sure.”

Android Jones and 360Art won first prize for Best Short Film. In receiving the award, Android Jones thanked FullDomeLab and praised the team as being “the most amazing, open-hearted and talented crew” he had worked with. Chris Lawes, Director of Business Development at Fulldome.pro, described the collaboration with Android Jones as humbling and one that FullDomeLab is “incredibly proud to be part of”.

SIGGRAPH 2015 kicked off with an electronic dance party including a live performance by DJ Mobius8 and visual effects provided by Fulldome.pro. SIGGRAPH is the annual conference of the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH). This year’s conference was held in Los Angeles, California and the opening night party was held at the Vortex Dome in the downtown area. The existing 45 foot (14 meters) dome was fitted out with an eight projector Fulldome.pro system which achieved a bright and uniform image at stunning 4K resolution. The system also provided flexibility, enabling the VJ to accompany the pulsing sounds of Mobius8 with live, real-time visuals from Fulldome.pro’s own Meduza 360 Music Visualizer as well as other VJ software, including Resolume, and clips provided by laptops and servers. Chris Lawes, Director of Business Development at Fulldome.pro stated “[the system] allowed us to …show three or four different types of content throughout the evening and just see where the crowd’s vibe was at and respond to that”. John Laraio, the man behind Mobius8, said of the “amazing video content – its some of the best stuff I’ve ever seen – really cool”.

The President and CEO of Vortex Immersive Media, Ed Lantz, described it as an “awesome projection system” and went on to say, “Fulldome.pro has done a very impressive job. … to be able to come in and set up a system and auto align in a day is really for us a dream come true. Especially for the event kind of stuff that we do – this is perfect.”