The company's premium immersive solution, Fidelity Black 8K™, has been fully installed at the theatre - now the highest resolution digital dome theatre in the world - and will open to the public in July.

The Adler Planetarium was founded in 1930 as America's first planetarium. After closing for renovations in September 2010, the 80-year old Historic Sky Theater - now named the Grainger Sky Theater - has undergone a complete transformation and will serve as the centrepiece of the Adler Planetarium's new Deep Space Adventure.

The theatre's newly installed 71ft (21.6m) diameter dome features a twenty-channel hyper-array of Zorro® projectors from Rockwell Collins.

The twenty projector configuration has produced an overall display resolution in excess of 8.3K. The resulting immersive experience is a completely black environment with incredible projected detail and color produced by high levels of contrast.

Powered by Global Immersion's Fidelity Play™ comprising forty-six Media Servers™, the Grainger Sky Theater is primed for both real-time and playback media and is capable of running at both 30 and 60 frames per second (fps) at 8K resolution.

The Uniview™ real-time data and astronomy visualization platform from SCISS will be used for astronomy presentations.

Global Immersion also integrated a turnkey 15.2 audio solution and a fully integrated control system including programmed touch-screen interfaces and a state-of-the-art custom operator console.

The Grainger Sky Theater will be opening to the public as part of the new Deep Space Adventure on 8 July 8th, 2011 and showing a new fulldome production from the Adler Planetarium.