General Information
Trade Organizations
Manufacturers

Links

Following are a list of links to helpful resources:

General Information

Advanced Visualization Lab, Indiana University
http://www.avl.iu.edu/

American Widescreen Museum
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/intro.htm

Cybersphere Spherical Projection System
http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~vr-systems/sphere1.htm

DVD Production for Planetariums
http://www.efn.org/~jcc/dvd.html

Fulldome Video Discussion Group moderated by Ryan Wyatt
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fulldome

GRASP Lab Omnidirectional Vision Home Page
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kostas/omni.html

Panoramic Image Acquisition
http://www.panoscan.com

Immersive Image Processing
http://www.fh-furtwangen.de/~dersch/
http://www.realviz.com
http://www.panoguide.com/
http://www.iqtvra.org/

Immersive Projection Technology Workshop
http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ipt98/
http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/ipt2000/
http://vr.iao.fhg.de/ipt-egve/

Immersive Projection Displays
http://www.isdale.com/jerry/VR/IPD_Links.html#Events

Iowa State U. Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC)
http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

National Tele-immersion Initiative - NTII
http://www.advanced.org/tele-immersion/introduction.html

UNC sites with numerous technical papers on edge-blending and projector-based graphics
http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/stc/publications.htm
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~raskar/Projector/

Princeton University Immersive Interactive System
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/omnimedia

Ryan Wyatt’s discussion of fulldome standards
http://research.amnh.org/users/wyatt/

Spherical Rendering References, Tools, and Techniques
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/pbourke/projection/skyvision/
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~zimmons/cs238/maps/environment.html
http://graphics.Stanford.EDU/papers/camera/
http://www.planisphere.com/
http://www.cebas.com
http://www.mentalimages.com
http://www.povray.org/
http://www.debevec.org/Research/HDR/
http://www.3dluvr.com/subagio/domelight/HDRdome.html
http://www.iqtvra.org/DeFish/fisheye.html

University of Illinois - Chicago (UIC) EVL - Electronic Visualization Laboratory
http://www.evl.uic.edu/EVL

University of New Mexico – Arts and Technology Center student programs in production for digital dome theaters
http://www.unm.edu/~atcinfo/menu/menu.htm

VR News – Virtual reality information source
http://www.vrnews.com/

Trade Organizations

Giant Screen Theater Association
The Giant Screen Theater Association (GSTA), is a network of organizations and individuals that are involved with or interested in the large-format screen industry.
http://www.giantscreentheater.com

Large Format Cinema Association
The Large Format Cinema Association is a non-profit corporation created to benefit the large format cinema community of film makers, distributors, equipment manufacturers, consultants, exhibitors and others.
http://www.lfca.org/

International Planetarium Society
The International Planetarium Society is the largest organization of professional planetarians in the world.
http://www.ips-planetarium.org/

The Image Society
A non-profit, technical, professional association for the advancement of visual simulation, related VR technologies, and their applications.
www.public.asu.edu/~image

Manufacturers

3D perception a.s
http://www.3d-perception.com
Manufactures DLP projector and software for dome and edge-blended projection.

Barco Simulation Products
http://www.barco.com/projection_systems/simulation/
Manufacturers video projectors and immersive display systems

Elumens Corporation
http://www.elumens.com
Manufacturer of VisionDome and VisionStation immersive displays.

Fakespace Inc.
http://www.fakespace.com
Immersive display products include the CAVE, Immersive WorkRooms, WorkWall, Workbench, Mini-Workbench, VersaBench, and ImmersaDesk

Flogiston
http://www.flogiston.com
Flodome and Flostation provide single user rear projected dome immersive displays.

Goto Optical Manufacturing Co.
http://www.goto.co.jp/product/virtuarium-e.html
http://www.goto.co.jp/index-e.html
Manufacturers of planetarium instruments, and the Virtuarium, a full color real time fulldome projector system for realtime computer generated imagery.

Immersive Media Company
http://www.immersivemedia.com/menu.html
Manufactures 11-head dodecahedral spherical video camera.

MetaVR, Inc.
http://www.metavr.com
PC Cluster image generator solutions.

MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc
http://www.multigen-paradigm.com/
Vega realtime authoring software with nonlinear distortion correction for curved-screen immersive displays including head tracking.

Panoram Technologies, Inc.
http://www.panoramtech.com
Edge blending hardware, curved, flat and rear projected wall immersive displays.

SEOS Displays Ltd.
http://www.seos.com
Worlds leading supplier of visual display systems to simulation industry.

Silicon Graphics
http://www.sgi.com/features/2001/apr/planetariums/
Offers realtime image generators and planetarium solutions.

Spitz Inc
http://www.spitzinc.com/
Turn-key immersive theatres, fulldome productions, and advanced dome screens.

Elumenati, LLC
www.elumenati.com
Immersive projection solutions.

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
Planetarium Division
http://www.zeiss.de/de/planetarium/home_e.nsf/
Manufacturer of planetarium instruments and dome video systems.