At this year's SIGGRAPH conference, held in Los Angeles, the official 1.0 release of the visualization software UniView was showcased for the first time.

Together with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Elumenati, SCISS performed more than fifteen UniView shows in an inflatable dome theatre at NVIDIA's SIGGRAPH booth. During the shows, presented by Carter Emmart from AMNH, the audience experienced a seamless and completely interactive journey from the International Space Station, in low orbit around Earth, through the Milky Way and all the way out to the edge of the observable universe, more than 13 billion light years from home.

Staffan Klashed, SCISS: “For us, SIGGRAPH was a test to prove to ourselves and others that the kind of storytelling Uniview is designed for really appeals to the broader audience. I think the feedback we got, and the hour-long line to get into the dome, proves us right. Of course, working with NVIDIA on a high-profile project like this is very exciting.”

With the new 1.0 release of Uniview, the software now scales from single laptop systems all the way up to high end workstation clusters and multi channel systems.

The inflatable dome system and the HL-S8 OmniFocus fisheye projector was provided by Elumenati, and powered by a HP workstation with an NVIDIA Quadro 4500 graphics chip. Thanks to the performance of the workstation, Uniview was able to output 1.5 million pixels at full frame rate, featuring more than 100.000 individual objects from the Digital Universe database provided by AMNH.

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