‘Fulldome 3D Digital Theatre’ at Kolkata’s Science City

Surjit kumar Dhal, Kolkata, Feb 18:  Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma on Monday opened India’s first ‘fulldome 3D Digital Theatre’ at the Science City here.

The ‘fulldome 3D Digital Theatre’ has a 23-metre titled dome to offer a fully immersive experience to the visitors, Sharma said while inaugurating it through video conferencing from New Delhi.

“As technology has changed in last two decades, so public taste and popular demand has also changed and a need was felt to upgrade the projection system from 2D celluloid based system to digital 2D/3D system to offer more and more immersive experience to the visitors,” he said.

The new system is capable of screening high resolution, full dome, and digital 2D/3D content by utilising six, high-end projectors using Ulteria Seam technology, he said.

Notably, the Science city get around 15 lakh visitors per annum on an average and the space theatre had 72 lakh visitors in the past 20 years.