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Friday, May 02, 2008 FullDome Summit/Int'l Planetarium Soc. Call for Papers FullDome Summit/Int'l Planetarium Soc. Call for Papers. FullDome Video technology is fast being adopted within the planetarium community and starting to find applications in other kinds of venues for education and entertainment.

Ed Lantz of Visual Bandwidth has issued a call for papers for the next international showcase of fulldome technology, which will be a part of the biennial meeting of the International Planetarium Society (IPS) in Chicago this summer. Even if you aren't thinking of submitting a paper, you may find the event worth looking into. Call for Papers Fulldome Summit at IPS 2008: The Future of Fulldome July 3rd, 2008 Chicago, Illinois, USA 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, July 3rd, at Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois. The Summit includes a day of papers, panels and roundtable discussions including kickoff of IMERSA, a new trade organization exclusively focused on the immersive digital dome (fulldome) medium, and DomeFest's juried fulldome art presentation and production-related sessions. With the spectrum of fulldome theaters now exceeding the number of IMAX branded theaters in number of installations worldwide, the medium is fast maturing and branching outside of traditional astronomy-related programming into the greater arts and sciences. The topic for this Fulldome Summit focuses on The Future of Fulldome, with emphasis on the technologies, programming and business models that will drive the future of the fulldome medium. 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, and 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, business models, content development consortiums, large-format film/fulldome convergence, etc. Abstracts are now due May 15th and acceptance will be announced by May 31st. Acceptance of abstracts is competitive (peer-review) 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 instead be submitted for presentation at the preceding IPS 2008 conference. Please send all abstracts as Word or text documents to Ed Lantz by the May 15th deadline. Here are some links for more information: Papers from the first Fulldome Summit (held in Valencia, Spain in 2004): International Planetarium Society IPS 2008 conference (held the week prior to the Fulldome Summit): Fulldome email group on Yahoo! General information on the fulldome medium
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