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Coming off the success of The Imaginarium, we founded Imaginary Labs to conduct research at the intersection of experimental multimedia environments and human creativity. We were awarded lab space in the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory End Station III, the terminus of the original Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

The Imaginarium is now rebuilt, complete with HVAC "borrowed" from the nearby CRAY supercomputer. The Imaginarium will once again become an integral part of ME101 Visual Thinking, a cornerstone of the Undergraduate Design Program.

The original Imaginarium used a projection system located beneath the floor that projected upwards through a fluid filled sphere. We built our first prototype to utilize the same system. However, it turned out that a projector mounted at the top of the dome pointed down onto a hemispherical mirror worked much, much better. Here's an early prototype of that, set to one of my stop motion music videos.

Testing hemispherical video projection in the Imaginarium. See more - http://allofusnow.com/imaginarium/ Video courtesy of Michael Turri - http://vimeo.com/21037244

Before relocation to a high school in Los Angeles in 2012, the Imaginarium was used as an ad hoc work space, classroom and experimental multi-media gallery. Check out a few examples below.

Andrew tests out the space for an upcoming string quartet performance in the Imaginarium. http://allofusnow.com/imaginarium/

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The Imaginarium was a prototype media immersion facility housed in a cardboard geodesic dome on the Stanford campus. It was designed as a plug-and-play environment for hemispherical digital video projection and sound for collaborative use by students, teachers and researchers.