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Festoon

Bypass the need to access a physical dome or planetarium to view, test and develop your fulldome show with four software packages. FESTOON, upgrade within Festoon to access FESTOON PRO, FESTOON MULTIPLAYER, and FESTOON PLAYER. See our separate product page to purchase Festoon Player.

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July 29, 2020
6 years and 5 days ago
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About the Game

Festoon Software products allow you to save up to 30% of production time and bypass the need to access a physical dome or planetarium to develop and test iterations of your fulldome or VR content. Products come in four different packages, all accessible on desktop and in VR.

FESTOON
Aimed at animators, filmmakers and artists creating fulldome and 360 content for the first time.

Viewport Mirroring tool, allowing you to design, storyboard or adjust layouts in any production software while seeing the results immediately in a virtual dome as you work.
Four pre-set virtual environments (standard dome, flat dome, cinema, equirectangular).
Ten content queuing slots.
Playback existing fulldome content in a virtual dome from any video or still image format.

FESTOON PRO
The complete fulldome production package - your dome from home

Purchase as downloadable content within FESTOON, or as a FESTOON / FESTOON PRO bundle.

Includes all the great features of FESTOON with additional fulldome professional tools.
Customise your dome environments with tilt, radius, seat configuration etc
Create markers for content within the virtual dome using Festoon's drawing tools.
Leave detailed director's, collaborator's or client notes within your markers.
Save your custom environments as pre-sets
Unlimited content queuing to help previsualisation, concepts and storyboards.
Rotate content for fast creative decision making, whether converting equirectangular media to the dome or assessing scenes and environments.
Increased number of projection types for development and review. (see bottom of page for included projection types)

MULTIPLAYER
(In App Purchase)
Enter your virtual dome with collaborators or clients anywhere in the world to view and share your production at any stage of development.
Multiplayer is available as an in app purchase within FESTOON and FESTOON PRO.

FESTOON PLAYER
For fulldome Distributors, Exhibitors and Festival Curators.

Playback existing fulldome content in a virtual dome from any video or still image format
Includes four pre-set virtual environments (standard dome, flat dome, cinema, equirectangular)

Projection types included in FESTOON PRO
Fisheye: FOV 90 > 360. Equirectangular : 180/360. Flatscreen. Cubemap 3x2. Facebook Cubemap 3x2. Youtube Cubemap. Facebook Pyramid. Facebook Vertical. Horizontal Cross Cubemap. Horizontal Strip Cubemap. Horizontal Tree Cubeamp. Vertical Cross Cubemap. Vertical Strip Cubemap. Vertical Tree Cubeamp. Mirrorball. Imax Dome Projection.