Fulldome Summit at IPS 2008: The Future of Fulldome
The International Planetarium Society’s Fulldome Video Committee, DomeFest, and the Adler Planetarium are co-sponsoring the second Fulldome Summit as a special session of IPS 2008 on Thursday, 3 July, at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. Registration for the Summit (not DomeFest) is free to those attending the conference; however, we need you to register at the DomeFest registration page, where you can also sign up (and pay for) the evening events. Yes, it’s a little confusing, but thanks for bearing with us.
Abstracts are now being accepted for two paper sessions:
1) Emerging Fulldome Technologies - Papers of a deep technical nature are solicited on emerging fulldome technologies covering topics such as automatic multi-projector alignment, digital hemispheric live- action cameras, 4k x 4k production workflow, cutting-edge real-time applications, or stereoscopic fulldome systems.
2) Future of Fulldome - Papers focusing on broad-brush future directions for fulldome theaters are solicited covering topics such as networked domes, entertainment programming, content development consortiums, large-format film, fulldome convergence, etc.
Abstracts are now due 15 May 2008 and acceptance will be announced by 31 May. Acceptance of abstracts is competitive and will be based on relevance to advancement of the medium and fulldome profession. Electronic versions of final accepted papers are due at the conference and will be subsequently published in an electronic Fulldome Summit proceedings and also considered for publication in the IPS Planetarian. Fulldome Summit paper presentations are 15 minutes with a 5-minute Q&A session, and are expected to be of specific interest to the fulldome community. Papers on fulldome topics that are of general interest to the planetarium community should be submitted for presentation at the preceding IPS 2008 conference.
Please send all abstracts as Word or text documents to Ed Lantz by the 15 May 2008 deadline.
