FULLDOME OnDemand

We’re now into year ten of fulldome streaming. While it’s taken four years, we’ve officially recovered from the pandemic shutdown of 2020. In 2024, we had the most rentals ever! Onward and upward!

Here’s our countdown tally of the most popular show titles for last year:

9. Magic Globe Creative Planet

8. Season of Light Loch Ness Productions

7. Moons: Worlds Of Mystery Museum of Science, Boston

6. Incoming! California Academy of Sciences

5. Larry Cat In Space Loch Ness Productions

4. Expedition Reef California Academy of Sciences

4. TOTALITY! Houston Museum of Natural Science

3. Habitat Earth California Academy of Sciences

2. One World, One Sky Adler Planetarium

1. Destination Solar System Adler Planetarium

Of course, some producers offer multiple show titles — and in the aggregate, their shows rack up some substantial counts. This year, the top five producers remained the same, jockeying their posting order from last year somewhat:

5. Museum of Science, Boston – 71 rentals

4. Houston Museum of Natural Science – 134 rentals

3. Adler Planetarium – 188 rentals

2. Loch Ness Productions – 193 rentals

1. California Academy of Sciences – 209 rentals

Last year, 190 unique customers logged in to rent shows; more than 1200 titles were streamed. 88% went to U.S. customers, 12% streamed internationally to 25 other countries. Loch Ness Productions’ own shows made up 16% of the total.

FULLDOME OnDemand added eight fulldome movies in 2024, and met several requests for other-than-English soundtracks.

Please take a few moments to let us know how the service is working for you, and anything else you’d care to share with us about FULLDOME OnDemand.

We are grateful to everyone making use of our streaming service. Thank you all so very much for your support!

We’re now into year nine of fulldome streaming. While we’re still recovering from the pandemic shutdown of Spring 2020, the good news is: things continue to look up. We had our second-best year ever! We look forward to 2024 being a more successful year for everyone!

Here’s our countdown tally of the most popular show titles for last year:

10. HUBBLE Vision 2 Loch Ness Productions

9. Forward! To The Moon Fiske Planetarium

8. Destination Mars: The New Frontier Museum of Science, Boston

7. Larry Cat In Space Loch Ness Productions

6. Expedition Reef California Academy of Sciences

5. Magic Globe Creative Planet

4. One World, One Sky Adler Planetarium

3. Habitat Earth California Academy of Sciences

2. SpacePark360: Infinity Dome3D and Loch Ness Productions

1. Destination Solar System Adler Planetarium

Of course, some producers offer multiple show titles — and in the aggregate, their shows rack up some substantial counts:

5. Museum of Science, Boston – 66 rentals

4. Houston Museum of Natural Science – 89 rentals

3. California Academy of Sciences – 128 rentals

2. Adler Planetarium – 134 rentals

1. Loch Ness Productions – 182 rentals

Last year, 146 unique customers logged in to rent shows; more than 900 titles were streamed. 92% went to U.S. customers, 8% streamed internationally. Loch Ness Productions’ own shows made up 19% of the total.

FULLDOME OnDemand added four fulldome movies in 2023, and met four requests for other-than-English soundtracks.

Please take a few moments to let us know how the service is working for you, and anything else you’d care to share with us about FULLDOME OnDemand.

We are grateful to everyone making use of our streaming service. Thank you all so very much for your support!

We’re into year eight of fulldome streaming, and while we’re still recovering from the pandemic shutdown of Spring 2020, the good news is: things are looking up. We’re back to 2018 levels of show rentals. We look forward to 2023 being a healthy year for everyone!

Here’s our countdown tally of the most popular show titles for last year:

5. Habitat Earth California Academy of Sciences

4. SpacePark360: Infinity Dome3D and Loch Ness Productions

3. One World, One Sky Adler Planetarium

2. Larry Cat In Space Loch Ness Productions

1. Destination Solar System Adler Planetarium

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Of course, some producers offer multiple show titles — and in the aggregate, their shows rack up some substantial counts:

5. Houston Museum of Natural Science – 58 rentals

4. Museum of Science, Boston – 58 rentals

3. California Academy of Sciences – 107 rentals

2. Adler Planetarium – 137 rentals

1. Loch Ness Productions – 200 rentals

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Last year, 128 unique customers logged in to rent shows; more than 800 titles were streamed. 90% went to U.S. customers, 10% streamed internationally. Loch Ness Productions’ own shows made up 23% of the total.

FULLDOME OnDemand added 5 fulldome movies in 2022, and met another request for a Spanish soundtrack. We also introduced a new format: prewarped 4k movies for selected show packages, now that UHD projectors are becoming more prevalent (and affordable).

Please take a few moments to let us know how the service is working for you, and anything else you’d care to share with us about FULLDOME OnDemand.

We are grateful to all who are making use of our streaming service. Thank you so very much for your support!

We’re into year seven of streaming movies with FULLDOME OnDemand. We usually post an annual year-end review, but we missed 2020, so we’re picking up the tradition again.

From our start in 2015, with each successive year, we saw impressive growth numbers. By 2019’s end, we were renting shows at a regular 3-4 per day pace. And then — the coronavirus pandemic hit in spring 2020, and our customers’ theaters all shut down. Instead of renting 100+ shows per month, our monthly numbers actually dropped to 0, and then single-digit totals for another 8 months, slowly crawling back up. Even now, two years later, our volume is down 75% over pre-pandemic levels.

The good news: well, we’re still here!

Here’s our countdown tally of the most popular show titles for last year:

5. Molecularium Molecularium Project

4. HUBBLE Vision 2 Loch Ness Productions

3. Expedition Reef California Academy of Sciences

2. Moons: Worlds Of Mystery Museum of Science, Boston

1. Destination Solar System Adler Planetarium

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Of course, some producers offer multiple show titles — and in the aggregate, their shows rack up some substantial counts:

5. Houston Museum of Natural Science – 15 rentals

4. Museum of Science, Boston – 26 rentals

3. California Academy of Sciences – 35 rentals

2. Adler Planetarium – 49 rentals

1. Loch Ness Productions – 54 rentals

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Last year, 74 unique customers logged in to rent shows. 78% of the titles went to U.S. customers; 22% streamed internationally. Loch Ness Productions’ own shows made up 14% of the total.

FULLDOME OnDemand added 11 fulldome movies in 2020-21, six of those in languages other than English. And we introduced HD streaming for selected show packages, to be used in conventional flat-screen venues, such as classrooms and lecture halls.

Please take a few moments to let us know how the service is working for you, and anything else you’d care to share with us about FULLDOME OnDemand.

We are grateful to our colleagues and friends who are making use of our streaming service. Thank you so much for your support!