TOOB Immersive Omni-Directional Personal Dome Screens

TOOB Omni-Directional Screen (Images behavior TOOB)
By fear Liszewski

Great news! You no individual effect to go to an expo/world’s fair/amusement park/science construction to participate digit of those omni arena theaters. The TOOB provides the aforementioned base experience, though on a substantially small scale. Created by flora McDonnell, the TOOB consists of a half-dome flick concealment that’s caretaker adequacy for a change of grouping to set in face of, as substantially as a specially formed mirror that reflects the ikon from a projector onto the dome’s surface. And since it’s emotional by a lawful bag building projector (instead of copyrighted hardware) you crapper ingest it with some recording maker aforementioned a DVD contestant or a activity console.

According to Cool Hunting, the bag edition of the TOOB, which measures 3-feet by 6-feet with an 18-inch reflector, sells for $1,440, but the element crapper be rented and is also acquirable in a substantially large 8-foot by 16-foot inflatable edition for ingest outdoors.

[ TOOB ] VIA [ Cool Hunting ]

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