"Globorama", a flight around the world in the Panorama Screen

The research project "Globorama" explores new possibilities of navigable information spaces through innovative forms of representation of satellite images: By using the 360° projection environment (PanoramaScreen II), the viewers are surrounded by satellite images of the earth: virtually, the entire globe can be travelled around and at selected points can be immersed in a self-chosen geographical environment. In 2007 "Globorama" was shown as an installation for the first time.

Participating institutions
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media, Karlsruhe, DE
Research Group Computer Graphics and Media Informatics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, DE
Human-Computer Interaction Group, University of Constance, Constance, DE

Donor of third-party funds
Research project within the research association "Information at your fingertips - Interactive Visualization for Gigapixel Displays" and the DFG graduate college "Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces" at the University of Konstanz

funded by the Information Technology Funding Program of the State of Baden-Württemberg (BW-FIT)

Production staff
Overall concept and project management: Bernd Lintermann
Visual concept: Bernd Lintermann and Joachim Böttger
Audio concept and realisation: Torsten Belschner, dataphonic audio solutions, Freiburg, DE
Visual realization: Bernd Lintermann, Joachim Böttger, Martin Preiser, Nikolaus Völzow

Interaction design and realization (laser pointer interaction):
Werner A. König, Hans-Joachim Bieg, Toni Schmidt, Harald Reiterer
Project inteHRDis, AG Human-Computer Interaction, University of Konstanz

production:
ZKM | Institute for Visual Media
Production management: Bernd Lintermann
Cooperation: Jan Gerigk, Arne Grässer, Manfred Hauffen, Petra Kaiser, Silke Sutter, Joachim Tesch, Christina Zartmann

PanoramaScreen: The PanoramaScreen is based on Jeffrey Shaw's interactive cinema system. The PanoramaScreen is a joint development of the ZKM | Institute for Visual Media, Karlsruhe (D) and the UNSW iCinema Research Centre, Sydney (AUS).
Production: Huib Nelissen Decor en Constructiewerken, Haarlem (NL)

Panorama Display Software:
Concept and development: Bernd Lintermann, ZKM | Institute for Visual Media

Special thanks to: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen (DE) and Office for Surveying, Real Estate and Housing of the City of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe (DE)