Now available with  Polish soundtrack:

Mice and the Moon

By customer request!

Now available with  Spanish soundtrack:

The Great Planet Adventures

By customer request!

Now available with  Spanish soundtrack:

Waiting Far Away

By customer request!

Now available from the Museum of Science, Boston

Destination Mars: The New Frontier

The next giant leap in human spaceflight is upon us!

NASA and others have their sights set on the Red Planet — building the technology to get us there! Give your audiences an up-close look at humanity’s most epic endeavor.

Explore the work being done around the globe to help make the dream of getting humans to Mars a reality. Fly through the International Space Station, where astronauts are already living and working in space. Follow the rockets and vehicles that will take humans beyond the Moon and, one day, all the way to Mars!

Featuring the voice of Dr. Mae C. Jemison, physician, scientist, teacher and first black woman NASA astronaut.

Share this remarkable journey with your audiences today!

The producer of this show has asked us to remove it from FULLDOME OnDemand.

Now available in Fisheye 2K and Prewarped 4K:

Bella Gaia

By customer request!

Now available with  Spanish soundtrack:

We Choose Space

By customer request!

Our Holiday Special for you!

Season of Light

HD available to rent/stream — or buy/download!

We know your audiences may be missing their annual tradition of seeing our show Season of Light on your dome. With the pandemic continuing, we're offering consumer-friendly methods of delivering the goods — now in flat-screen HD form.

Classroom/lecture hall audiences

Last year, we added HD format flat-screen movies to selected rental packages on FULLDOME OnDemand. These are intended for classroom or lecture hall showings; your projector is just trained on a flat screen instead of your dome. We didn't increase prices for the addition either; you just rent/stream as usual. But obviously socially-distanced audiences need to be there to see it.

Online audiences

We continue to field questions about how you could stream these movies to audiences over the Internet. One method that's been tried is renting the package as usual, then hosting a Zoom call — streaming the movie and hoping "Share Screen" works (and assuming everyone on the call has enough bandwidth to handle 30fps). For our usual rental method, it might be worth a try. You will want to optimize Zoom for video in its Settings.

For those who want to offer the show on their own Websites, we have another option: buy/download the HD movie. The download package comes with our permission for posting on a school/institutional webserver. We expect you to put it on a private Web page, and share the link by email with your audience members.

Holiday gift-giving

And we continue to get inquiries from the general public for Season of Light. They say, "With COVID-19, we can't go to our local planetarium, but have enjoyed seeing this production every year." To meet these requests, we're offering just the HD show as a standalone streaming rental, or a purchased download for individual/home use — at an affordable, wallet-friendly price point!

If you're a planetarium director, you can just point people to our Season of Light page here. You might consider buying some shows as gifts for your family, friends and supporters. Our Purchase Page on Vimeo OTT has a Gift this option that allows you to pay, and send the redeem codes to the lucky recipients.

Virtual planetarium theater experience

Of course if audiences can't be in your dome theater, the next best thing is to experience the dome theater virtually. Since 2016, we've operated the VR Dome Theater website to do just that. There you can stream or download our movies in 4K equirectangular form, to watch on VR headsets and mobile devices. Here on our Season of Light page, we've included links to our Vimeo On Demand VR Dome Theater page for the show.

Finally, Season of Light is available in all formats, in Spanish! Feliz Navidad!

Now available in more languages!

MOLES - What Is Out There?

Czech

French

Greek

Korean

Polish

Russian

Spanish

New Show from a Familiar Producer... Loch Ness Productions!

EXOPLANETS - Discovering New Worlds

Welcome to the Great Age of Extrasolar Planet Finding!

We're pleased to announce a new show: EXOPLANETS - Discovering New Worlds. This immersive fulldome video blends science, documentary-style storytelling, and a touch of science fiction into a compelling look at our search for planets around alien worlds.

It's a timely, up-to-date look at the hunt for extrasolar planets. So far, astronomers have found thousands of alien worlds, ranging from hot Jupiters to super-Earths. Discovering extrasolar planets is one thing; finding places that might be hospitable to life is the next challenge.

This show explains the search methods astronomers employ at both ground- and space-based observatories, detailing the CoRoT, Kepler, and TESS missions. It takes audiences on imaginative journeys to possible worlds where life may someday be found.

Explore the latest in exoplanet detection methods and the search for habitable worlds.

Rent EXOPLANETS - Discovering New Worlds today!

This show was inspired by Albedo Fulldome's Extrasolar Planets - discovering new worlds, and replaces it in our lineup.

Introducing...

FULLDOME OnDemand has been streaming quality fulldome content to theaters around the world since 2015.

Now, we are pleased to expand our service through a new, limited-time, On Demand program called DOME SHOWS AT HOME. It aims to provide our popular movies direct to virtual visitors, home-learners, and science-curious families — in short, your audiences!

The idea is simple: we partner with your facility to stream selected shows directly to your patrons. A portion of the revenues generated by DOME SHOWS AT HOME will be shared with our program partners. A win-win for all of us!

We don't know when your domes will be fully open to the public again, to share the night skies and fulldome videos with your audiences. Until then, this initiative aims to provide awe-inspiring content directly to your 'off-campus' supporters during these challenging times.

Looking for ways to serve your visitors, educators, social media followers, and members at home?
We have a popular selection of fulldome shows — let’s join forces!

Read more here...

Season of Light

HD now available to rent/stream — or buy/download!

We're trying something new for this Xmas season. With most of our planetarium customers still in coronavirus shutdown, and their audiences missing their annual tradition of seeing our holiday show Season of Light on the dome, we're offering some new methods of delivering the goods — in flat-screen HD form.

Classroom/lecture hall audiences

Back in September, we added HD format flat-screen movies to selected fulldome rental packages. These are intended for classroom or lecture hall showings; the projector is just trained on a flat screen instead of a dome. Same rental fees, but obviously a socially-distanced audience would need to be present.

Online audiences

Recently we've been fielding questions about how planetarium directors could stream these movies to audiences over the Internet. One method that's been tried is renting the package and hosting a Zoom call — streaming the movie and hoping "Share Screen" works (and assuming everyone on the call has enough bandwidth to handle 30fps). For our usual $30/3 days rental, it might be worth a try.

For those who want to offer the show on their own Websites, we've added a new option: to buy/download the HD movie. It's $70, and comes with our permission for posting on a school/institutional webserver.

Holiday gift-giving

We're also getting enquiries for the show from the general public. They say, "With COVID-19, we can't go to our local planetarium, but have enjoyed seeing this production every year." To meet these requests, we're now offering just the HD show as a streaming rental, or a purchased download for individual/home use.

If you're a planetarium director, you can just point people to our Season of Light page here. You might consider buying some shows as gifts for your family, friends and supporters. Our Purchase Page on Vimeo OTT has a Gift this option that allows you to pay, and send the redeem codes to the lucky recipients.

Virtual planetarium theater experience

Of course, if audiences can't be in the planetarium, the next best thing is to experience the dome theater virtually. For four years now, we've operated the VR Dome Theater website, to do just that. There you can stream or download our movies in 4K equirectangular form, to watch on VR headsets and mobile devices. Here on our Season of Light page, we've included links to our Vimeo On Demand VR Dome Theater page for the show.

And Season of Light is now available in Spanish! Feliz Navidad!

We added two new shows from Adler Planetarium...

Destination Solar System

Space Express Tours — the first tour company in deep space — offers a variety of adventures including its most popular trip, Destination Solar System. This out-of-this world jaunt takes place on board the fastest ship in the Space Express fleet, the only vehicle equipped with Space Jump^TM technology.

Your guides are “Jesse,” a lovable rookie tour guide who can’t wait to show you the wonders of your celestial neighborhood, and “Max” — the highly knowledgeable, slightly grumpy shipboard computer. With Max steering the ship and Jesse chattering excitedly about each place you visit, you’ll soar through the Asteroid Belt, explore the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, and hover over the roiling surface of the Sun.

This show was developed by Adler Planetarium scientists and educators working with experts in market research, science writing, space visualization, animation, and children’s entertainment. It combines real images of planets and other celestial objects with the latest in digital animation.

Tours of the hottest hot spots and the coldest, stormiest and most spectacular sights in the Solar System await curious space explorers of all ages, in Destination Solar System!

Imagine The Moon

The Moon has been a source of wonder for all of human history. Adler's 2019 sky show, Imagine the Moon, explores how the Moon has inspired human creativity, learning, and exploration ever since we have looked to the sky.

Each discovery has brought new opportunities to contemplate and imagine, until, driven by dreams, we left Earth and went there in the amazing journeys that culminated in astronauts walking on the Moon. People have imagined the Moon as a glowing disk in the sky, a destination in space, and a world that shares its origin with the Earth. The power of human imagination continues to inspire our relationship with the Moon as our partner in space and companion in our sky.

Both these shows are available in flat-screen HD and fisheye 2K too!

Planet Nine

Now available in HD and 2K!

It's back!

One World, One Sky

Our perennially popular show returns after a 2-year hiatus — now available in 2K too!

Into The Deep

Now available in HD and 2K!

New Show from a New Producer...

Horizons of the Future

An immersive visual and sonic journey into the future, and beyond!

We are very pleased to present Horizons of the Future, an excellent artistic entertainment piece by Axon Genesis.

This 25-minute fulldome trip is a mesmerizing trip through lush animated landscapes set to downtempo, relaxing, progressive psytrance EDM (electronic dance music). It's a visual stunner, blending retro-futuristic styles with modern graphics and influences from geometric and shamanic forms to create a multi-sensory, mind-expanding experience.

Awaken your creativity and let your senses roam through this fantastic voyage.

New From Fiske Planetarium

Explorations 6: The Dawn Of Orion

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got the next in the Explorations series from the staff of Fiske Planetarium!

In The Dawn Of Orion, look into NASA's next steps toward the Moon with the Orion spacecraft, the Artemis Lunar Exploration program, and hear from astronaut Randy Bresnik about it.

Now available with  German soundtrack:

Earth's Wild Ride

By customer request!

From Bishop Museum

Wayfinders: Waves Winds and Stars

The 5,000-year story of voyaging in the Pacific

Sail on the deck of the voyaging canoe Hōkūle'a and explore traditional Polynesian navigation. Learn how to read the stars and interpret the winds and waves to navigate without modern instruments. This live-action film tells the story of the Polynesian Voyaging Society and the recovery of the nearly lost art and science of traditional, non-instrument navigation in Hawai'i and the Pacific.

Wayfinders was produced in Hawai'i by Bishop Museum and 1001 Stories in collaboration with the Polynesian Voyaging Society.

Embark on this remarkable journey today!

Happy 5th Birthday to us!

Introducing... 2K streaming!

And week-long rental options!

Starting with Loch Ness Productions own shows, we're trying out our highest-ever streaming resolution: 2160x2160px fisheye movies! This doubles the 1080p size of our regular HD movies. (Our prewarped movies are already "2K": 1920px wide by 1080px high).

So if you have the bandwidth available, and projection equipment that can take advantage of the new movie sizes, please try them out and let us know how they look on your dome. Even if your projector isn't fully 2K-capable, downscaling a 2K movie should look nicer than upscaling a 1K movie. The enhanced resolution does have a higher price, but as always, trailers are FREE to play.

In addition to our standard 3-day rental periods, we're now offering 7-day rentals for the new 2K movies.

We've also refreshed some pages, and updated our FAQs.

Thanks for sharing the news with your colleagues — and thanks for five great years! Here's to the next five!

Effective August 15

Sorry to report that Mirage3D had decided to remove its shows from FULLDOME OnDemand.

New From Fiske Planetarium

Explorations 5: Apollo's Legacy

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got the next in the Explorations series from the staff of Fiske Planetarium to rent/stream!

In Apollo's Legacy, learn about the Moon rocks returned by the Apollo astronauts, and hear from a scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder about his role in the studies.

Now available with  German soundtrack:

EXPLORE

By customer request!

Science visualization show from Neurovision LLC added

Neurodome

Where in the mind does the spark of curiosity begin?

Journey from the outer limits of the universe down to Earth and into the brain to explore the "inner" frontier of human knowledge! In this fulldome show, produced through a collaboration of scientists, doctors, animators, and planetarium specialists, real brain images come alive as neuroimaging technology becomes your observatory to discover what makes us human.

The audience will explore imagery on scales ranging from the size of the entire head down to the sub-cellular scale, millions of times smaller. The film takes audiences flying through the skull to the outer layers of the cerebral cortex, exploring sub-components of the brain, wandering through neurons, and much more.

Throughout the journey, audiences will get an unprecedented view of our place in the universe, and in turn, where the universe is represented in our brain. For most people, the tour will be their first immersive trip through a real human brain... a truly mind-blowing experience!

Also available in  Spanish.

Now available with  German soundtrack:

Touching the Edge of the Universe

Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality

By customer request!

New From Fiske Planetarium

Two Short NASA Mission Shows Added

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got the next in the Explorations series from the staff of Fiske Planetarium to rent/stream! Each is less than 7 minutes long.

Big Science, Small Packages tells the story of CubeSats, NASA's mission for research spacecraft called nanosatellites. Learn about MinXSS, the Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer, a solar physics mission operated primarily by University of Colorado Boulder students.

In Touching the Sun, learn about the Parker Solar Probe, the NASA robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 to study the outer corona of the Sun. Hear from a graduate researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder about his role in the mission.

Our first new show for 2019!

Expedition Reef

Hope for reefs in a changing world

The California Academy of Sciences’ award-winning 2018 planetarium show reveals the breathtaking beauty and biodiversity of coral reefs in exquisite detail — and the actions scientists are taking restore and preserve them.

Learn the secrets of the "rainforests of the sea" as you and your visitors embark on an oceanic safari to the world’s most vibrant — and endangered — marine ecosystems. Expedition Reef, narrated by Tony Award^® winner Lea Salonga, will immerse audiences in an undersea adventure, providing an up-close look at a part of our planet many people have never experienced. Discover how corals grow, feed, reproduce, and support over 25% of all marine life on Earth — while facing unprecedented threats from climate change, habitat destruction, and overfishing.

Dive in!

Now available in  Mandarin:

Oceans In Space

Now available in  Spanish:

The Body Code

From Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Body Code

By request, we've added this 2012 show, a whirlwind trip through the human body.

Fly through the carotid artery; explore the eye, brain, ear, and heart. Then, shrink into a cell to see its nucleus and deoxyribonucleic acid within. Discover how DNA programs the body's cells to form the circulatory and nervous systems. Then watch from inside as lasers fight disease at the cellular level.

Now available in  Spanish:

Extrasolar Planets - discovering new worlds

New From Fiske Planetarium

Two Short NASA Mission Shows Added

From their production studio at the University of Colorado-Boulder, we've got more shows available from the staff of Fiske Planetarium to rent/stream! Each is less than 7 minutes long.

Earth's Hidden Water tells the story of the original GRACE mission: the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. Learn about the twin satellites nicknamed "Tom" and "Jerry", and how they measured anomalies in our planet's gravity field, collecting data about aquifer water flows and thinning ice sheets.

MUSCLES is the acronym for Measurements of the Ultraviolet Spectral Characteristics of Low-mass Exoplanetary Systems. Learn about the observations of a dozen M and K dwarf exoplanet host stars, using using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and XMM-Newton.

Fiske has more shows in production, including one about the New Horizons mission to Ultima Thule, so stay tuned!

Five Short Science Modules Added

From the production studio of SlicedTomato, we've got more shows available to rent/stream! These five mini-shows (10-15 minutes in length) present directed topics in science particularly for younger age students.

Cells and Tissue features cells and how tissue can be grown in labs. Audiences are introduced to researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and professors. Get students thinking about how they may impact the future and what careers they might like to pursue.

In Ecosystems, learn about the important roles of living and non-living factors in an ecosystem, including terms such as abiotic, consumer, community, omnivore, food web and more.

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, advection, humidity, transpiration, and even evapotranspiration are introduced and taught in The H₂O Cycle.

Is it a solid? A liquid? A gas? Does it "Matter"? It most certainly does! We are talking about GOLD! So put on your lab coat and come investigate States of Matter.

What’s it like outside? Rainy, windy, hot? Let’s check our thermometer, rain gauge and wind sock! Students will learn terms for describing and measuring Weather — and what to do if weather becomes severe!

Congratulations!

Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality

and

EXPLORE

were award winners at the 12th Fulldome Festival in Jena Germany. Rent them today!

Now available in  Spanish:

Moles

Now available in  Polish:

EXPLORE

Now available in  Portuguese:

Larry Cat In Space

Our first new show for 2018!

Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality

Can a question itself be more powerful than its answer?

Have you ever pondered the really big questions, such as "What is reality?" and "Is there more to the Universe than what we perceive with our senses"?

That's what media artists Rocco Helmchen and Johannes Kraas explore in their newest creation, Dimensions — Once Upon Our Reality, a scientifically inspired art and music fulldome show about the mysteries of time and space, the quantum universe, and the multiverse.

Loch Ness Productions was pleased to work with the producers on the English translation of this show (originally commissioned by the Planetarium Sternwarte Bochum in Germany). It's now ready for world-wide distribution, and should be of special interest to educators looking for creative STEM and STEAM programming.

Dimensions—Once Upon Our Reality invites audiences to let go, drift away, think big, have fun, and most of all, stay curious about physics, math, and more. It's an amazing and entertaining journey built on and inspired by science and discovery.

Rent it today!

VHX (Vimeo, actually) seems to be having problems playing fisheye movies in Firefox. Trailers just show the "Buffering" spinner, but don't load. We've notified them.

Chrome does not exhibit the problem, so for now, that's the workaround.

Welcome, Houston Museum of Natural Science!

Six Popular Shows Added

Through the distribution services of ePlanetarium, we've got more shows available to rent/stream!

Earth's Wild Ride is like many tales shared by grandparents over the centuries, except "the old country" is really another planet, always visible from the moon base, but totally unlike the granddaughter's world. While learning about eclipses, the ice age, Earth's water cycle and differences between the Earth and Moon, the audience is taken on a roller-coaster-like ride through canyons of raging rivers and hot flowing lava.

Extreme weather takes center stage in Force Five. Experience the devastating effects of hurricanes, tornadoes, and space storms, and learn how to predict and survive these monsters.

With muscles and bones made on Earth, you'll be a super star on the solar system's low-gravity worlds. In The Great Planet Adventures, explore our vision of space colonies on planets, moons, and asteroids — the resources available and how to have fun! Available in a General Public version and The Great Planet Adventures - Kids edit.

Impact! takes you out into space with astronaut Tom Jones to learn about meteors, meteorites, asteroids, and comets, and the dangers they can pose to life on Earth.

We Choose Space features astronauts Scott Parazinsky, Tom Jones, Gene Cernan, and veteran space reporter Walter Cronkite as your tour guides on this adventure to the International Space Station and to the past and future moon.

Though we're just starting out with these, HMNS has created a dozen more shows. So perhaps if these meet with success, we'll have even more titles to offer you in the future. Let us know what you'd like to see!

Now available in Spanish!  

Season of Light

Plan ahead for the holiday season!

New show from Creative Planet!

EXPLORE

Our future on Mars depends on discoveries from the past!

Have you ever wondered how our modern spacecraft can navigate quickly and accurate to Earth orbit and beyond? Learn how it all works in EXPLORE, a compelling new immersive experience.

Revolving around the story of a future Mars colonization, through the discoveries of Johannes Kepler's laws of motion, this fulldome show is narrated by British voiceover Philip Banks. It features script contributions by Loch Ness Productions's Carolyn Collins Petersen and British planetarian Dr. Jenny Shipway. It's a beautifully visualized educational trip through the history of astronomy and the space age. We're pleased to make this show available as part of our ever-growing library of fulldome content on demand!

For instant gratification, you can rent EXPLORE now!

At the producer's request, the shows The Little Star That Could and Legends of the Night Sky: Perseus and Andromeda are no longer available to rent.

New show added!

Saturn and Beyond

Saturn’s rings are one of the most beautiful sights in the solar system. In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn and sent back volumes of data. Learn the history of the discovery of Saturn’s rings and explore the mysterious features seen by the Cassini space craft.

From Charles W. Brown Planetarium, Ball State University.

Now available in Russian!  

Fragile Planet: Earth's Place in the Universe

Seasonal STARGAZING Mini shows now available!

By customer request, we've made a package of the 4 mini-length Seasonal STARGAZING shows.

The original full ~14-minute shows spend half their time under city skies with a modicum of light pollution, before taking a trip to the country to see pristine skies. The ~7-minute mini versions forgo the rural skies.

Sometimes you need short shows!

Now available in Russian!  

Cocomong: A Space Adventure

Journey to a Billion Suns

Now available in Spanish!  

Habitat Earth

Welcome, California Academy of Sciences!

Five Outstanding Shows Added

At last, we're able to make the fine shows from the Morrison Planetarium available to rent/stream!

Incoming!, the 2016 original planetarium show narrated by George Takei, explores the past, present, and future of our Solar System and the landmark discoveries scientists have made sending spacecraft to visit tiny worlds. Cutting-edge visualizations bring real-time data from current NASA missions to life while taking audiences on a ride through the dynamic story of our cosmic origins. Along the way, audiences discover what these impacts from above can teach us — and how scientific advances may allow us to find and track cosmic threats before they reach planet Earth.

Travel through space and time in a fulldome production that makes you look at Earth in a whole new way. A sweeping geological journey, Earthquake explores the forces that transform the surface of our planet. Fly along the San Andreas Fault before diving into the planet's interior. Journey back in time to witness the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and the break-up of Pangaea 200 million years ago. Visit the sites of historical earthquakes from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. Learn how scientists and engineers collaborate to help society prepare for a safer environment — and a safer future.

Travel 120 million light-years to rediscover home! Fragile Planet combines scientific visualization with movie-making magic, highlighting Earth's special place in the universe as the only known haven for life. Develop a renewed appreciation for our fragile planet through the lens of astronomy, as Sigourney Weaver guides audiences on an immersive excursion that explores a universe filled with the possibility of life.

Living networks connect and support life forms large and small — from colonies of tiny microbes and populations of massive whales to ever-expanding human societies. In Habitat Earth, discover what it means to live in today's connected world. Through stunning visualizations of the natural world, dive below the ocean's surface to explore the dynamic relationships found in kelp forest ecosystems, travel beneath the forest floor to see how Earth's tallest trees rely on tiny fungi to survive, and journey to new heights to witness the intricate intersection between human and ecological networks. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Frances McDormand, this 2015 show features stunning visualizations of both biological and human-built networks (and of how they intersect), taking show-goers on an incredible, immersive journey through the interconnectedness of life on Earth.

Life: A Cosmic Story is a high-speed ride through the history of life! Narrated by Jodie Foster, it tells the 14-billion-year saga of how we came to be. It's a journey from the microscopic view inside a plant cell to the vastness of our universe populated by billions of galaxies swirling in space.

New show from Adler Planetarium!

Planet Nine

Join the Hunt for a Possible Planet!

Planet Nine, the latest fulldome show from Adler Planetarium, gives audiences an inside look at the painstaking process of planet-searching, as told by CalTech's Mike Brown, discoverer of Eris and Haumea. Throughout this fascinating show, Brown talks about unusual orbits and describes nights of painstaking robotic searches for new planets. His is a story of modern planet-detecting techniques that have uncovered many new worlds out beyond Neptune.

Discoveries of new worlds "out there" also give insight into their distances, orbits, and compositions. In addition, those orbits give intriguing clues to the existence of what may be a very large, so-far-undiscovered world deep in the Kuiper Belt.

Join in this fascinating tale of observation, discovery, and analysis — and hear firsthand about the life of a modern planet hunter searching out his prey.

We added country flags to our Shows - A to Z page, so you can scan quickly down the page, to see at a glance if soundtracks in other languages exist!

New educational shows from the Great Lakes Planetarium Association

Cosmic Colors

Take a wondrous journey across the entire electromagnetic spectrum! Discover the many reasons for color — like why the sky is blue and why Mars is red. Take a tour within a plant leaf and journey inside the human eye. Investigate x-rays by voyaging to a monstrous black hole and then back at your doctor's office. Get ready for an amazing adventure under a rainbow of cosmic light! (32 min.)

The Stargazer

Come along on a journey to the stars with University of Illinois Astronomer James B. Kaler. Nichelle Nichols (from the original "Star Trek") and Dr. Kaler narrate this personal look at gravity, light, and the spectrum and how they help us decipher the lifestyles of the stars. (35 min.)

Now available in  Arabic:

Larry Cat In Space

and

Oceans In Space

Now available in  Russian:

HUBBLE Vision 2

Timelapse abounds...

Seven new fulldome shows added

May's new additions feature the creative works of Rocco Helmchen, producer of the popular Chaos and Order: A Mathematic Symphony. His visionary work crosses boundaries between art, music, math, physics, and geography.

First, for the geography maven in all of us, we present Switzerland Sojourns: five five-minute travelogues touring through Switzerland, highlighting the geographical and geological wonders of this land-locked country.

We're pleased to offer tempus.ruhr, Rocco's "night-shift" timelapse tour of the Ruhr region, one of Europe's largest metropolitan landscapes. This 25-minute-long trek through this industrial area of northern Germany links the past and present with scenery both utopian and transcendental.

Finally, we have a lovely bonus short, a gentle, five-minute-long ride through a set of softly lit and colored fluid dynamics visualizations called Liquid / Light / Flow, stylistically consistent with some scenes in "Chaos and Order". Who says learning can't be fun?

By customer request...

Two Small Pieces Of Glass: The Amazing Telescope

The 2009 International Year of Astronomy "History of the Telescope" project, now in the Bonus! Specials and Shorts section.

A FULLDOME OnDemand exclusive!

Underwater Fantasy

Beneath the waves of Earth's ocean lies a universe where humans are the aliens ' the realm of the coral reefs.

In this fantastic three-part journey, LivinGlobe filmmaker Harald Singer embarks on a gentle journey of discovery through one of the most beautiful and magical realms on our planet, and introduces audiences to the different realms of life that inhabit the coral reefs.

Underwater Fantasy is shot in HD, artistically enhanced to fill the hemisphere of the dome. There is no narration — just soothing music that evokes an aural impression of life under the waves.

It features nearly 48 minutes of underwater footage. Each of the three segments is provided as a 17-minute stand-alone short. The segments are also blended together to provide an additional 48-minute full-length feature. All are included in the show package.

We've made a PDF flyer of all the shows currently available, for when you need to show people what there is! We'll update this in the future when new shows are added.

The current version will always be found on the Shows - A to Z page.

Now available in  Polish:

Touching the Edge of the Universe

Now available in  Polish:

Journey to a Billion Suns

New addition: Cocomong: A Space Adventure

Cocomong is very curious about space. But reading about space in books makes it seem so far away. That's when Halley, a friendly alien, drops in! Halley has come to Earth all the way from Titan in order to protect the last remaining Star Gem from the evil Virus King. If Halley wants to find the other Star Gems and rescue his parents, then he needs the help of Cocomong and his friends! However, Halley's home Titan is at Saturn which is really far away, even farther than Mars and Jupiter. Will they be able to make it all the way there safe and sound? Let's get on the spaceship that Cocomong made and blast off!!

Cocomong: A Space Adventure was produced by Metaspace (Seoul, South Korea), in partnership with Digital Creature.

New addition: Lars the Little Polar Bear

Lars is the beloved star of the children's book Little Polar Bear and the Whales authored by Hans de Beer. This storybook tale follows the adventures of a curious little bear who finds his arctic home warmer than usual in spring, which creates a problem for his friends, the Belugas.

Following the Lars story, the show then takes a documentary-style turn, and we explore the habitats of the real-life animals in the Arctic. As you might expect with a polar bear as the star, the show offers young viewers a gentle introduction to the topic of climate change. And since this is a show for planetarium theaters, we also included a short stargazing section about the polar bears who circle the North Star in the Arctic night skies.

Lars the Little Polar Bear was produced by Mediendom Kiel, in partnership with Loch Ness Productions, who created this special English-language edition.

Now available in  Polish:

The Little Star That Could

Introducing...

The FULLDOME OnDemand Gift Card!

To rent movies with FULLDOME OnDemand, planetarians need to enter the account number and expiration date from a credit or debit card into our e-commerce module. But we've heard from some customers who say their institution hasn't issued them corporate cards, and they don't want to use their personal credit cards, so what can we do? And some have said they have to work through their Purchasing departments, who require Purchase Orders for everything they want to get.

Now we have a product you can order: a FULLDOME OnDemand Gift Card. Contact us!

FULLDOME OnDemand Gift Cards also make lovely holiday stocking stuffers!

Two new shows added to FULLDOME OnDemand

From Adam Majorosi, two shows produced for the European Space Agency:

Journey To A Billion Suns, featuring the GAIA mission

and

Touching the Edge of the Universe, featuring the Herschel and Planck missions.

We'll be adding more shows soon... stay tuned!

Introducing FULLDOME OnDemand!

There's a new, affordable way for dome theater operators with limited budgets to access the world's great fulldome content.

If you've ever rented a movie from Netflix or Amazon Instant Video, you're familiar with the concept of on-demand video. FULLDOME OnDemand is the same idea, just for domes.

Loch Ness Productions, together with our producer partners, is initially offering 40+ shows for Web streaming. If you've got a spherical mirror system or a single "1K" fisheye-lens projector, our FULLDOME OnDemand service is particularly suited for you. With our $30/three days price for anytime playback, now you can afford to offer almost every show in our catalog!

Looking to try out some new and different children's shows? How about specialty art and music shows? Want to run a "Dome Club" night — or even your own fulldome festival? Bring in your administrators or test audiences before you buy the long-term license? Now you can do all this, at a price you can probably afford right out of petty cash!

Make FULLDOME OnDemand your go-to source for quick access to the world's finest fulldome features.