• Shira Dome Console 3.0

    05 September 2026

    Shira Dome Console brings the OpenSpace space visualisation engine and Shira Presenter's fulldome playback together in one program for fixed planetariums. Version 3.0 is the largest step the console has taken. The engine moves to OpenSpace 0.22.0 and the player to Shira Presenter 2.6; the console becomes a full participant in Content Producer; the script box becomes a scripting environment that writes scripts for you; the sky effects that made Shira Universe recognisable arrive inside the rendering engine itself; and licensed sky imagery is now never written to disk at all.

    What is in the package
    • OpenSpace version 0.22.0, under the MIT licence, with Shira's own engine patches
    • Shira Presenter version 2.6
    • Fourteen ready-made mission profiles
    • Turkish, English and Chinese interface, on the desktop and on the web remote
    • Earth 3D Clouds and Volumetric Aurora

    Lua Script Manager
    Inside Content Producer
    Updated Profiles and missions
    Update Sky Manager Features
    Content protection
    Updated Camera, take-off and landing
    Updated Web remote control
    Fixed bugs on the Engine (Open Space) side

  • Shira Universe 8.2

    05 September 2026
    Sky Annotations — new

    Text, image and line annotations pinned to the sky, for marking and naming a star, a constellation or a region during a presentation.

    • Annotations are locked to the celestial sphere: they move with the sky and stay aligned to celestial north.
    • They hold their shape under the dome's wide-angle projection.
    • Positions can be picked directly from the sky with Ctrl + click.
    • A separate control window handles scale, colour and transparency.
    • The whole annotation layer is stored in a snapshot and fades in smoothly between frames during playback.

    Working with Content Producer
    Data2Dome on the Tablet
    Web remote control

     

  • Shira Presenter 2.6

    05 September 2026
    Content Producer

    The show-building tool received the most attention in this release.

    • Content Producer Module added. Content Producer is a production tool designed to quickly and visually create full-dome planetarium content. It essentially works on the principle of "creating shows without writing code." 
      1. Visual Programming (No Coding Required)
      2. Smooth Transitions & Camera Control
      3. Audio Synchronization
      4. Recording & Playback

    New View Features
    LCD Dome Support
    Other improvements

     

  • Siming Mountain Astronomy Forum of Ningbo, China, 2026

    20 July 2026

    From July 17 to 19, Ray Digital (Shanghai) was invited to attend the Siming Mountain Astronomy Forum of Ningbo, China and the Eastern Zhejiang Astronomy Education Conference.

    Ray Digital showcased its 6-meter mobile fulldome system alongside the Shira Universe planetarium software. During the astronomy teacher training sessions, the team delivered three immersive fulldome lectures for participating astronomy educators inside the digital planetarium.

    Meanwhile, during the forum session, we delivered a keynote report titled. Future Virtual Courses — Immersive Fulldome Courses Driving Innovation in Astronomy Science Education.

  • Shira Universe 8.1

    12 July 2026
    The Data2Dome project, originally initiated by Lars Lindberg Christensen, continues to be supported by NOIRLab(https://noirlab.edu/public/education/data2dome/).
    . As the Sureyyasoft team, we have also continued our support for Data2Dome by updating the integration with the latest data sources.
    The new version includes:
    - Data2Dome feature with updated links for easier use.
    The new links specifically include Astropix (https://www.astropix.org/) resources.

      

    - Ability to observe solar eclipses from Earth using telescope simulation.
    - Improvements in flat media source presentation and various bug fixes.

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