"You enter into a room that seems like a cinema in the way the seating is arranged, however instead of the screen being in front of you like in a cinema, the screen is above you. So to view it, you have to look up, however the way that it's made means that it takes up your whole field of vision. This is pretty impressive.
The other main thing to note is the sound, the sound is spread over multiple speakers which means you really get the feeling that your right in the area of the work being shown."
After experiencing the dome, i decided to start looking at how the dome works. After having a look around the net for some stuff, i soon realised that it's more referred to a "Fulldome". This is what i found this:
Fulldome refers to immersive dome-based video projection environments. The dome, horizontal or tilted, is filled with real-time (interactive) or pre-rendered (linear) computer animations, live capture images, or composited environments. - Wikipedia
Single-projector fulldome video systems use a single (or mixed) video source displayed through a single fisheye lens, typically located at or near the center of a hemispherical projection surface. A single projector has the benefit of avoiding edge blends (see below) between multiple projectors. A disadvantage of central projectors is the loss of the center of the dome for optimal viewing of the reconstructed perspective view provided by true hemispheric projection, a problem shared with traditional planetarium projectors. High quality hemispheric projection lenses are very expensive and operate at the practical limits of optical performance needed for high resolution full dome coverage. Single-projector mirror systems, pioneered by Mirrordome from Swinburne but now offered by Discovery Dome and other manufacturers, is placed on the edge of the dome to increase seating, decrease costs, and to allow analog planetariums to become digital without giving up their star projector.
Multiple-projector fulldome video systems rely on two or more video projectors edge-blended to create a seamless image that covers a hemispherical projection surface; splitting the entire image up into segments allows for higher-resolution imagery and projector placement that does not intrude on the viewing area underneath the dome. A disadvantage of multiple projection is the need to frequently adjust the alignment of projectors and the uneven aging of separate projectors leading to brightness differences between segments. Even minor performance differences between projectors can be obvious whan projecting a solid color across the entire scene. - Wikipedia
