Once Upon the Moon Takes Us Back to the Moon
The Hasselblad Foundation is providing funding for Once Upon the Moon, a 3D dome-format production created by the Visualization Center C in Norrköping. This immersive
The Hasselblad Foundation is providing funding for Once Upon the Moon, a 3D dome-format production created by the Visualization Center C in Norrköping. This immersive
How is our understanding of science and technology affected when we experience them through visualizations and immersive environments? These are the kinds of questions that Andreas Göransson, postdoctoral researcher in science and technology education at Linköping University, explores on a daily basis.
The dome theaters are the crown jewels of Wisdome. The experience visitors have of being completely surrounded by sound and visuals is called immersion. Immersion means being so absorbed by an experience that you feel like a part of it. The term is often used in gaming, film, or art to describe the feeling of being inside the world you’re experiencing, rather than just observing it from the outside. The technology found in a dome—with its large projected hemisphere, 3D, and surround sound—is entirely designed to create this sensation.
The starting point for Wisdome was a commemorative donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, which made it possible for Wisdome to now have dome theaters in five locations across Sweden. But it is thanks to many years of research in scientific visualization at Visualiseringscenter C and Linköping University that the initiative became a reality.
Wisdome is based on world-leading visualization research conducted at Visualization Center C and Linköping University, with the aim of increasing interest in technology and science
He is a trained astrophysicist and currently serves as Senior Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization at the California Academy of Sciences in the