Dario Tiveron

Padova, Italy

I’m Dario, founder and director at the Fulldome Database. Yeah, right – it's me :) Feel free to connect with me, I'd love to hear about what you do!

About me

Hey!


I’m Dario, founder and director at the Fulldome Database.

I’m Italian and proudly based in Padova (Padua to some of you), which is the very same city from which Galileo Galilei made his discoveries.

My background is in physics and astronomy, so it’s no surprise that I'm in love with planetariums. It's been a love affair going strong since I started working in them at 16.

I strongly believe that domes are venues which go beyond astronomy-related topics, offering inspiration and communication in whole new ways! And, ever since 2011, when I first encountered Fulldome… we've been inseparable!

Out of unbridled enthusiasm, I created FDDB to allow people from all around the world to learn what I wanted to learn – what’s out there in the fulldome world, where there are so many new developments and applications.

FDDB now serves more than 180+ countries and thousands of professionals. This is mind-blowing, and the entire project has been an awesome experience. I look forward to seeing what the community will come up through its continually inspiring creativity!


I hope to talk with you at a conference somewhere around the world, but please keep in mind that I’m a strange Italian: I don’t drink coffee and I don’t like football (soccer to you Yanks!). So let's get straight to talking about anything else over spaghetti, pizza and… nice Californian red wines!

My Organizations

FDDB.org – Fulldome Database
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A heartfelt greeting from FDDB’s founder announcing the acquisition of FDDB! We’re excited about the future and how this will enhance the fulldome community!

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The Italian Planetarium Association designed some artwork to provide all planetariums with a consistent style throughout the whole country.

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October 21, 2023 marks the launch of the Centennial of the Planetarium with the wider planetarium community. Follow the ceremony both online and in-person!

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This video shows how to use AI (Stable Diffusion) to produce fulldome images for your planetarium. The power AI applied to images is huge!

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We asked ChatGTP if the Fulldome Database is important to the Planetarium Community. Find out what we got.

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Today the Fulldome Database reached a significant milestone: 10,000 subscribers!

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We are making available Ukrainian audio tracks to the whole planetarium community to allow any planetarium to offer programs to the refugees in Ukrainian.

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The new IMAGES section specifically lists only images that can be used in the dome without distortions.

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As you may have read, the Covid-19 outbreak had a very big hit in Italy and severely impacted all kinds of activities.

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A review of the new fulldome shows screened at Reflection of the Universe 2019 and produced by Russian planetariums and creative teams in the last 2 years.

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Report from the first day of "Reflections of the Universe", the 2019 edition of the Russian Fulldome Festival and Planetarium Conference, in Yaroslavl, Russia.

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The Fulldome Database just passed 6,200 registered users from the planetarium and fulldome worlds. This is a more than 400 increase in less than 2 months!

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Today the ZEISS Planetarium Division declared to be actively committed to supporting UNIVIEW users affected by the SCISS insolvency.

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In the last 2 years, the Fulldome Database experienced tremendous growth. Here are some valuable statistics for you to enjoy!

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Today we are introducing a new Domes section to list information of planetariums and fulldome venues located anywhere in the world.

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Initiated in June 2018, PlanetaRUN is a spontaneous and healthy running initiative that brings together fulldome producers, planetarium fans and runners.

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Letter to the International Planetarium Society Council to call for an examination of proposed conference host sites from a safety and human rights perspective.

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After months of hard work, we are excited to launch the 4th version of the Fulldome Database, completely rebuilt from the ground up. Find out more!

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The 2017 Fulldome Festival has some changes, but is still a worldwide platform for sharing fulldome innovations, ideas and inspiration.

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Dear friends, After 2 years since the last version, today we are launching the new version of the Fulldome Database! We closed the website to upload the template we developed for mobile devices but we came across a major technical issue that affected the entire website layout, both the desktop and mobile one. For the […]

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Fulldome Database wishes you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks for being with us all this time. We appreciate your support!

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Festival Directors Micky Remann, Volkmar Schorcht and Jürgen Hellwig have just shocked everybody by announcing the 10th Festival will be the last Festival. Will there be anything next?

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On July 7, 2015, a team of Edinburgh astronomers presented a custom version of the Stellarium planetarium software, running on an Oculus Rift VR headset at the National Astronomy Meeting. This system aims at attracting new audiences and offering...

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The list of fulldome festivals, held in different corners of the world, is increasing every year. With the major fulldome festival being initiated in Jena almost 10 years ago, now there are more than 10 festivals around the globe. And all of them are very valuable since they gather fulldome enthusiasts under one roof and […]

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We just returned from this year’s edition of the Fulldome Festival in Jena, Germany – the oldest and best known festival solely focused on fulldome content. We attended the event from beginning to end, making sure to take notes of all the workshops and screenings in the program so that we could report the event’s hot […]

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In July 2014, German company Kurt Hüttinger GmbH & Co. KG was awarded the contract to design and fabricate an interactive gallery for the foyer of the Sharjah Center for Space Sciences and Astronomy (SCASS). The new facility offers educational programmes as well as research and studies in special labs. The exhibition in its center […]

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Located in the The Dubai Mall, “The Sphere” is the result of a collaboration between Dubai 360 and Obscura to create a life-size interactive experience in Dubai. The goal was to design a physical space where high-quality panoramic content from the Dubai 360 website could be presented in a unique, fully immersive way. Visitors step […]

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Brno, a different kind of Festival Bridging their passion for science with unyielding dedication to the fulldome medium, Brno Observatory and Planetarium hosted the Central European Fulldome Festival on April 14 and 15, 2015. Usually festivals put together workshops, speeches and screenings. The Central European Fulldome Festival Brno 2015 was very different from the others […]

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The 2nd edition of the Central European Fulldome Festival Brno has just ended. More than 30 shows screened at the Festival, but the completition included only shows that were released after January 1st 2013. Here are the Festival Winners: Best Movie Award: Dream to Fly, by The Heavens of Copernicus Productions Best Brno Observatory and […]

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In our first week after a silent launch we’ve had over 1200 interactions with the site! We thank those already engaging to make this such a useful tool and can’t wait to report back activity once we send notice out to the entire fulldome community and begin promoting it. Chairing Fulldome Database over the last […]

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We are proud to release the new version of FDDB today, along with a brand new motto: Find, be Found and have Fun in Fulldome! The first version of FDDB was born in 2011, and here we are now with 5.000+ subscribers and over 17.000 views per month! When we started working on this new […]