The Media Globe is a visual installation featuring a globe and six projectors, showing a fully, seamless and warpfree image. With a diameter of four meters, the Media Globe is an impressive presentation tool and light installation.

Thanks to a unique projection-system it is now possible to completely fill a sphere with moving images and interactive content. This technique opens up new possibilities to display information. Videos, images, text, panorama photos, spherical textures, interactive content and much more can be presented in a new stunning way. The Media Globe is based on an idea by Hans Reitz and was initially developed by MESO Digital Interiors and Strukt’s
technical director Thomas Hitthaler.
The Media Globe was programmed in vvvv.

This 3D-visualization shows the configuration of the Media Globe, and how it can be combined with an architectural projection using the same realtime distortion techniques.

Schematic view of the Media Globe

A multifunctional computersystem running software especially programmed for this installation allows the use of any kind of content. It can be a simple playback of images and videos or a complex realtime visualization of database driven information. The possibilities of what to show are sheer endless.

Media Globe at DLD Conference 2009. Photos by Wolfgang F. Maier.

Showing this installation at product presentation, trade fairs or other events guarantees an extraordinary experience: an impressive, bright sphere with a seamless image all over it, floating in mid-air.

As an art piece the Media Globe can reflect various aspects of its surroundings. The visual shown on the globe can be effected by sound, light, movements of people or any other interaction that one can think of. This makes the installation a lively piece of art, which will attract people’s attention.

Reference projects:
Mercedes-Benz DLD Conference 2009

Additional Credits:
Earth’s City Lights Data by Marc Imhoff (NASA GSFC) and Christopher Elvidge (NOAA NGDC). Earth’s City Lights Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon (NASA GSFC). Visible Earth Images courtesy Reto Stockli (NASA Earth Observatory). visibleearth.nasa.gov
Initial technical concept for the globe projection by MESO Digital Interiors (meso.net) based on a idea by Hans Reitz (circ performing by experience).