Shira Universe 3.3 "Screen to Dome"
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Shira Universe has released with a remarkable feature: "Screen to Dome". Now, planetarians be able to show what they want from primary screen of their computer workstations.
This feature uses real time screen capture and show in proper dome format like previous flat image and video features.
The users can open any software on the primary screen and show on the dome.
For examples:
Any office document; ppt, pps, doc, xls etc. are running.
Mushollatorium, Imah Noong , Indonesia
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The Mushollatorium is a mosque, planetarium and an observatory in Indonesia.
2nd Turkey Science and Technology Centers Conference, September 2018
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We attended the Turkey Science and Technology Centers Conference. We introduced the products of Sureyyasoft. Thank you to all our visitors.
https://bilimmerkezleri.tubitak.gov.tr/tubitemkonferansi#content172
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Shira Universe 3.2
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The newest version of Shira Universe (v3.2) presentation software has just been released and brings along many new features:
Manual calibration with precision settings for opposite cave mounting a 2 multi-projection system. Shira Universe supports either 2x 4K projectors (4096x2160 each) mounting wide angle lenses to provide a 4K output; or 2x 2K projectors (2560 x 1600) to provide a 2K output on the dome using a single computer. Distortion and blend calibration settings are also very simple to to the simple 2-projector system.
This solution does not require any another calibration software and only require basic hardware specifications.
A single computer with 2 external display output.
Cpu: I7 core
Ram: 8 gb
Disk drive : SSD 500gb ( ssd is important)
Display drive : Nvidia quadro or geforce series min 2GB ram
Two cave mounted with approprate lens projectors.
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| Windows 10 motitor settings | Two projector location image at the dome edges. |
4K result image (Image courtesy "Lochness productions") |
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- Shira Universe v3.2 delivers new Colored Hevelius constellation images.
- Added APOD (NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day) JSON link to Data2Dome and capability to download youtube videos. Bug fixes
- Support to the Russian language both on the GUI and the sky.
Shira Universe 3.1 with new technique for 4K playing
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Now, the Shira Universe 3.1 version has new technique for 4K playing.
In this technique 4K image sequence files are encoded two part of video file by using new Shira Encoder 1.0.1 version. Each part of video file has 4096x2048 resolution.
The Shira Universe plays them at the same time as syncronized and show on projector screens with appropriate warping.
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Added to the Shira Encoder two encode profiles :
- 4K High Quality that produces single 4Kx4K dome master movie file like old profiles
- 4K 2-pieces High Quality produces two 4K HD movie files.
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It can be tested as single file and two pieces file.
The end result of the experiments shows that the two-piece playback is working at high performance without any frame dropping with below hardware specifications.
CPU : Core I7
RAM: 8GB
Disk: SSD
Display Card: NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
