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AntarcticVR: East of Antarctica

2017-18
4k Fulldome/VR, 5.1 Surround Sound. Duration:20:00/35:00
Part1.

'East of Antarctica' is work-in-progress experimental 4k Fulldome feature film & interactive VR production, shot on location at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica - an immersive, aesthetic vision of the site of Mawson's Huts, exploring the extraordinary landscape and the relics left by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE 1911-14) over 100 years ago. 

The immersive quality of Fulldome and 360º cinema imparts a deep sense of place - a place at the very ends of the earth, that once existed upon the brink of the geographical imagination.

Modern techniques in photogrammetric reconstruction and geometry re-projection enable the transformation from Fulldome and stereoscopic content to immersive VR. This is research-in-progress, building upon 10 years of my immersive-content R&D in Antarctica.
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Underpinning these innovations in 'immersion' and technique is a narrative: we will explore the story of the scientific understanding of space and time - and the quest - for the location of the South Magnetic Pole.

The understanding of this mystery was a key moment for early 20th-Century science - with crucial ramifications for our 21st-century knowledge of our planet.

Via the use of 10k stereoscopic panoramic photography, 4k motion-controlled Fulldome time-lapse, 4k real-time 360º cinematography, photogrammetric reconstruction and immersive VR, 'East of Antarctica' envisions the Cape Denison site and the scientific quest of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14: how we came to know where we are on the surface of Earth.

​You can see it and you can almost be there.

​Work-in-progress.

Credits:
​Work-in-progress

Directed and Produced by Peter Morse
Written by Peter Morse

Cinematography by Peter Morse
​VR programming by Peter Morse

Fulldome Timelapse: Peter Morse & Chris Henderson
LadyBug 360º Video: Peter Morse
Editing, 3D Modelling & Photogrammetry  Compositing & Special Effects, Colour Grade, 4k Dome Master/VR Master: Peter Morse
Music: Peter Morse
Audio: Peter Morse
Lighting: Peter Morse
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Special thanks to:
Mawsons Huts Foundation
MHF Expeditioners
Australian Antarctic Division
Crew of L'Astrolabe
IPEV


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