Share your VR Experience

 

Global Imagination’s Magic Planet VR Sphere is an exciting new way to create a shared public experience for 360⁰ content – it presents Virtual Reality (VR) media in group settings without the need for goggles. The VR Sphere is a spherical display with all the software you need to present your VR content as a compelling, touch-interactive, 360⁰ encounter.

Regardless of whether you use the VR Sphere for:

  • VR branding and advertising in lobbies, show rooms, malls, board rooms, at trade shows, or during events;
  • point-of-sale marketing of VR experiences, equipment and content;
  • live-streaming of VR events in an entertainment venue;
  • formal and informal education in a classroom or museum environment as an alternative to using goggles for VR;
  • “transporting” visitors to a remote location using VR virtual tours;
  • or any number of other applications,

The VR Sphere will engage and connect both interested parties and people merely passing by with your compelling VR experience.

The VR Sphere is also an excellent tool for creating VR content more effectively. When producing 360⁰ VR experiences, you either work with distorted, 2D rectangular media, which makes understanding the scenes difficult, or individually don goggles, which makes collaborative production difficult. The VR Sphere’s projector and lens eliminate the distortion of rectangular source video, and let 360⁰ content creators interact while viewing the entire landscape without goggles. The VR sphere provides a complete 360⁰  visualization of the content all at once for everybody to see, so you can create a better user experience more effectively and efficiently than ever before.

 

 

Our Platform

​Our Platform lets you mix and match to create just the right solution for your needs:

​Sphere hardware​
  • 7 sphere sizes from 16” to 6’
  • A wide variety of projection options from 3,000 to 25,000 lumens, 2K, 4K or 6K resolution, laser, etc.
  • Customizable enclosures so you can match the aesthetic of your space
  • Interactivity options including touch (on select models), 3D navigation, kiosks, etc.
  • Your choice of “player”, including computer, digital signage player, etc.
Sphere software
  • Play existing rectangular VR content with no modification – drag, drop and play – whether it’s a local file, a network stream, a video signal (via capture card), or an HTML page
  • Choose from a wide range of tools to maximize your ROI, including plugins for After Effects, Unity, PowerPoint, video.js, Touch Designer and more
  • Use our software, or “roll your own”
  • Cloud management SaaS – manage a distributed network of spheres cost effectively
  • Retail analytics (camera, passive WiFi, beacon) to measure and optimize the effectiveness of your interactive experience

 

 

 

Our Studio and Studio Partners

​With our Platform, you can play your existing 360 media right out of the box, leveraging and repurposing it to reach the “non-headset demographic”. That said, whether you want to: optimize your media for the sphere; create new media; or develop MR experiences, we have a range of studio partners to help – or we’ll gladly work with your favorite studio who already understands your creative needs and process.

​Our own Studio capability meets a very specific need: many public spaces, such as airports, malls, convention centers, etc. need a way to create ads for all their concessions, tenants, advertisers extremely cost effectively – often to adapt existing 16:9 media, logos, text etc. to the sphere. Our Studio also can do 360 shoots of them all at once, significantly reducing the per-tenant cost, while creating an optimized 360 experience.

 

Our Experiential Entertainment and Educational Content

​If you’re interested in having a ready-made “entertainment and/or educational experience”, we can provide it. Through our long history in the education market, we have the world’s largest collection of global educational. Our content library included hundreds of “museum experiences” from organizations like NASA, the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History, the European Space Agency, and numerous others. They share their Experiences – many of which only work on our Platform – as part of their public education mission.

​We also have relationships with major VR studios like Jaunt, Littlstar and others, so we can help you get the entertainment content you want for your specific venue’s sphere experience. Or perhaps you want more of a VR/AR gaming experience on your sphere. We can help, just bring your requirements to us.

 

Our “Network as a Service”

​Location and venues are adding / must add “experiences” to help draw visitors and compete with the Internet. Our spheres are an ideal option. We offer a complete solution as a service. Not only will we install the platform at all your venues, but also we’ll operate it for you, and even sell advertising time on the sphere to help you monetize it. Think of it like being your own entertainment, education and advertising Network.

Our Network service includes:
  • Installing, operating and maintaining the Platform
  • Providing the entertainment and educational experiences you choose for your sphere
  • Selling advertising and sponsored content time on your spheres, using a revenue-share model (you’re welcome to sell “sphere time”, also, of course). we provide an excellent ROI.
  • Collecting analytic data to help demonstrate efficacy and justify rates
  • Working with your marketing team on programs like coupons, games, and social media efforts to help increase engagement and brand awareness
  • Collaborating with you on community engagement – particularly on educational experiences like outreach from local museums that will draw visitors during the slow times at your venue