
After 3 months of experimentation & collaboration, the Planet Rock team had enabled OpenSpace visualization in Invisible Worlds, and developed a Virtual Content Development environment that functions with free applications.



By creating a scale accurate virtual Invisible Worlds Theater in Unity3D,
– methodologies were documented to enable open source content development for the IW theater.

After establishing these modifications to OpenSpace code, on 10/28/24, we tested real-time rendering of our universe in the Invisible Worlds Theater. Participants experienced:
• Height dimension expressed correctly from floor and wall perspectives
• Blending transition from walls to floor
Lastly, we scheduled an events experiment on 3/20/25. The immersive dance party, Planet Rock Mission 1 featured a live DJ (world-renowned Rich Medina), live vocalist (Lady Alma), and guests from 7 to 70 years old.
Special guests included: President Sean Decatur and his family, Provost Cheryl Hiyashi, Paul J. Thompson, head of NYC DOE Arts Education, and Lisa Kim from the Ford Foundation.
It’s an important milestone and the team wants to share it to stimulate ideas around how you might each use the Invisible Worlds Theater to share your ideas with different communities.
“You are used to seeing OpenSpace in Planetariums, but, it’s a different experience to travel to anywhere in our documented universe and stand immersed inside it. I’m excited to see how people will use the two technologies together.” – Mark Hines, MASK Consortium
- Visitation challenges to aid in developing new models for revenue generation
- Attract funding streams the museum has not necessarily been targeting
- S.T.E.A.M. funding
- Funding from arts & culture patrons who do not traditionally support science museums
- Stimulate discovery amongst non-scientists about science through innovative programming
Rebecca Oppenheimer, Vivian Trakinski, Loretta Skeddle & Benjy Bernhardt, Eric Cortes, Danny Zieger & Jackie Farhety, Jacquline Handy, Micah Acinapura, Eozin Chae, Rocco DiSanti, Kobie Fowler, & Megan Villa.