Screenberry at the core of a new spherical projection theater in South Korea

METASPACE, a leading Korean provider of solutions for astronomy and space science, has installed a Screenberry media server in the state-of-the-art spherical projection theater at the National Yeosu Marine Meteorological Science Museum.

Opened in December 2024 in the picturesque coastal city of Yeosu, this museum is the first in Korea dedicated to marine weather. Visitors can explore meteorological phenomena through various interactive multimedia installations before stepping into a fully immersive projection sphere for an unforgettable journey through the skies and oceans.

The sphere is 12 meters in diameter. It is crossed by a transparent observation platform connecting two entrance doors. Standing on the platform, the visitors can get immersed in 360-degree visuals that wrap them all around.

At the heart of this experience is a single Screenberry Atlas x4 media server, which automatically aligns and runs 12 WUXGA Vivitek laser phosphor projectors. An additional media server was installed as a backup. The media server uses a four-camera Screenberry Calibration Kit to capture the entire projection surface.

To illuminate the 450m2 spherical screen, the projectors were positioned around the two entrance doors on the opposite sides of the sphere. This layout was designed to avoid shadows cast by the observation platform and prevent the projectors from beaming into the visitors’ eyes. At the same time, this scheme required an advanced solution for stitching the projections into a seamless image.

The Yeosu Sphere is the second Screenberry-driven spherical projection theater in South Korea. The first one – Space360 – was installed by METASPACE at the Gwangju National Science Museum back in 2017. The Gwangju sphere was recently upgraded with the latest version of Screenberry software, enabling faster and more efficient multi-camera auto-alignment.