Bolscan: a new display method for immersive environments.

Crew developed the installation ‘Bolscan’, an alternative display method for immersive, omnidirectional video content. As the name suggests, the installation allows the viewer to ‘scan’ the omnidirectional video at his or her own discretion. The video, shot with an omnidirectional camera, is represented on a virtual sphere (‘bol’ means sphere in Dutch). By turning the entire installation the viewer can explore the 360º video one slice at a time.

This novel way of viewing 360º content urges the viewer to actively partake in the discovery and exploration of the video yet allowing him/her to focus on a segment of the environment.

Bolscan has been presented during ‘Festival Canal‘ (17 Sept. till 3 Oct 2010) at the Kaaitheater in Brussels and ‘Almost Cinema’ (12 till 23 Oct 2010)  in art center Vooruit in Ghent.

Bolscan at Kaaitheatre in Brussels