Carter Emmart on the evolution of Planetarium Theatres. IU 2020

Carter Emmart live at the Infromation Universe, introduced by Prof Anders Ynnerman.
In this video, Carter Emmart talks about the evolution of planetarium theatres from Sky Demonstration to Immersive 3D Science Description and Investigation. Carter presents a live demo of OpenSpace.

Dr.Carter Emmart is the Director of Astrovisualization in the Department of Education at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. Since 1998, he has directed Space Show production for the Hayden Planetarium and oversees software development of interactive tools for visualizing the museum’s Digital Universe 3D Atlas. He directs graduate student projects about the capabilities of the OpenSpace software. He has guided a number of international collaborations with AMNH, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and the Media Technologies Department of Sweden’s Linkoping University from which OpenSpace grew out of and continues to contribute to.