, as delegates considered new strategies to connect accomplished immersive works with the widest possible public.
“Unlike VR, [the Full Dome model] creates a social, group-based, and shared experience based on immersion,” says SAT general director Jenny Thibault. “The business model [for traditional VR] is quite complex. Producing a work requires competitions, coordination and support. You can’t do volume exhibition, as it’s very expensive to have headsets for everyone. So we encourage VR producers to develop a dome version as well, because there is already a whole network throughout the world.
And hopefully won't go the way of Laserium shows, whose writing was on the wall when they started doing Pink Floyd shows...