Cosm, a global technology company that builds end-to-end solutions for immersive experiences, has announced that it will host a special event to highlight the new features and benefits of the next rendition of the world’s leading planetarium software, Digistar 2025, following its unveiling at this year’s International Planetarium Society Conference in Berlin.
Digistar 2025 will be available to customers in January 2025. Before the release, Cosm’s global community of planetarium partners will get a first look on 5 December at 9 am MT / 4 pm UTC. During this virtual event, they will be able to discover the latest advancements to the software, such as enhanced visuals and playback capabilities, seamless access to the latest scientific data, and powerful tools designed to inspire and educate audiences.
Live demonstrations
Building on the achievements of Digistar’s more than four decades of history, Digistar 2025 will bring several new features and innovations to raise the bar for the planetarium experience. An in-depth look at innovative and significant features, like the incorporation of Cosm’s Multi-Sync Engine, which is utilised in Cosm’s immersive venues and makes it easier to create immersive fulldome experiences by combining multiple video sources, audio feeds, and real-time graphics, will be provided to attendees of the community launch event.
With the biggest and most experienced engineering team in the business, Cosm is committed to consistently creating cutting-edge features that support the shared mission of inspiring and educating. Furthermore, by switching to an annual release cycle, Digistar 2025 guarantees that users will always have access to the newest advancements, enabling them to improve their programming over time, foster greater community involvement, and inspire future generations.
“Community and shared experience are core to everything we do at Cosm, and we’re thrilled to hold this special Digistar community launch event to kick off the next era of planetariums around the globe in collaboration with our dedicated network of planetarium professionals,” says Kirk Johnson, chief operations officer at Cosm.
“The collaborative spirit within the community is central to what makes Digistar so powerful, and we look forward to seeing how our talented community leverages the new features of Digistar to educate and spark the curiosity of their visitors.”
Discover Cosm’s capabilities
In addition to live demos of Digistar 2025, attendees will gain insights into Cosm’s expanded immersive content ecosystem, including its Premium Media Program for flexible and affordable fulldome programming. There will also be an exclusive Q&A with Cosm and the Digistar team and details about system upgrade timelines.
Digistar, the world’s most powerful planetarium software, enhances experiential science and education and connects audiences to the universe daily in hundreds of planetariums. Digistar is now a vital part of Cosm’s CX System, a comprehensive Shared Reality system. CX System, Cosm’s premium LED dome solution, features advanced display technology, immersive production, and an expanding content ecosystem.
CX System powers global science and education experiences, such as the first LED dome in Europe at Planetarium Prague, the first LED dome in a museum at the Fort Worth Museum of Science & History, and the most advanced planetarium in North America at the Arizona Science Center. CX System powers Cosm’s immersive Shared Reality venues in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Park, Dallas’ Grandscape, and Atlanta’s Centennial Yards, with more coming.
Cosm has created category-defining technology, an ecosystem of immersive media, and immersive entertainment solutions that seamlessly bridge the virtual and physical worlds, transporting audiences anywhere, real or imagined, in a physical and social environment. It powers over 700 planetariums worldwide to provide immersive experiences and content.
Cosm’s worldwide network of planetarium professionals, educators, and immersive content creators are invited to join this event and engage with the future of Digsitar. To RSVP, please click here.
