The White Oak Institute invites professionals to comment on a family of draft specifications to define museum-quality digital giant screens. The NSF-funded process is facilitated by the White Oak Institute. GSCA is a participant in the process.
Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) is a process for the museum community, in widening circles of involvement, to quantify how museum giant screen theaters will be differentiated from conventional DCI theaters, as 95% of the Front-end Survey respondents wanted.
No format needs as much information and size as digital immersive giant-screen theaters in museums. DIGSS is about defining “museum quality” for this sector of the market in a way that still exchanges with other museum sectors/formats.
White Oak hopes to facilitate an even wider network of museum theaters. In the digital future, programs should be able to move across platforms efficiently, including 3D Theater, video, PowerPoint and fulldome.
DIGSS provides museum managers and theater directors with a tool they can use as they think about converting to digital. With it, museum managers can ask themselves and their prospective suppliers: “Is the system/film/program/theater design you are offering DIGSS compliant? If not yet, is there an upgrade path?”
DIGSS Draft 1C, which you will be commenting on, is an independent, expert team’s best thinking about specifications they know about and provisional specifications they would like to test, with a research framework for that testing.
Please talk about specs you care about--don’t throw out the whole just because you want to change some words. Jeanie Stahl and John Jacobsen (Co-PI’s) will listen carefully.
DIGSS will be in its professional comment period from September 23 to October 31, 2010, and head toward publication and dissemination to the field by this winter. White Oak hopes it will be useful to museum managers as they chart the future course of their GS and fulldome theaters in the converging digital age.
The White Oak Institute invites professionals to comment on a family of draft specifications to define museum-quality digital giant screens. The NSF-funded process is facilitated by the White Oak Institute. GSCA is a participant in the process.
Digital Immersive Giant Screen Specifications (DIGSS) is a process for the museum community, in widening circles of involvement, to quantify how museum giant screen theaters will be differentiated from conventional DCI theaters, as 95% of the Front-end Survey respondents wanted.
No format needs as much information and size as digital immersive giant-screen theaters in museums. DIGSS is about defining “museum quality” for this sector of the market in a way that still exchanges with other museum sectors/formats.
White Oak hopes to facilitate an even wider network of museum theaters. In the digital future, programs should be able to move across platforms efficiently, including 3D Theater, video, PowerPoint and fulldome.
DIGSS provides museum managers and theater directors with a tool they can use as they think about converting to digital. With it, museum managers can ask themselves and their prospective suppliers: “Is the system/film/program/theater design you are offering DIGSS compliant? If not yet, is there an upgrade path?”
DIGSS Draft 1C, which you will be commenting on, is an independent, expert team’s best thinking about specifications they know about and provisional specifications they would like to test, with a research framework for that testing.
Please talk about specs you care about--don’t throw out the whole just because you want to change some words. Jeanie Stahl and John Jacobsen (Co-PI’s) will listen carefully.
DIGSS will be in its professional comment period from September 23 to October 31, 2010, and head toward publication and dissemination to the field by this winter. White Oak hopes it will be useful to museum managers as they chart the future course of their GS and fulldome theaters in the converging digital age.