Elmar Trefz commisoned Jeffrey Shaw's iCinema Centre in Sydney to create an immersive and interactive historical boat ride for the Back O'Bourke Museum.

A 360º video recording on the Darling River on the replica paddle steamer “PV Jandra” forms the background for this interactive video installation. Additional narrative layers, superimposed historical photographs and a voice over by a local historian, provide information of the highlights along the way. The visitors can freely control their gaze and jump to places of interest with a custom build user interface.

iDOME is a proprietry hardware/software platform developed by the iCinema Centre that offers a cost-effective and compact immersive visualisation environment for panoramic and spherical representations, video and/or computer generated. Ideally suited for museological applications, it is configured as a three to five meter fibreglass hemisphere that stands vertically in front of the viewer, with a projector, computer, surround audio equipment and user interface.

For more information please visit the iCinema website

Produced at Spinifex Group Sydney.