[HN Gopher] Omnimax
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       Omnimax
        
       Author : aberoham
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2025-06-08 20:41 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | vFunct wrote:
       | First large format system I experience was Omnimax in Fort Worth
       | in the 80's. Much more immersive than IMAX. Actually, the Apple
       | Vision Pro movies reminds me of that experience now.
        
       | russellbeattie wrote:
       | I grew up outside of Boston and as a kid we went to the Museum of
       | Science's Omnimax dome quite a few times.
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       | As I grew up, I started seeing/hearing about IMAX movies, and
       | didn't realize they were different until I went to one in another
       | part of the country. I was very excited to go, as it had been a
       | long time since I had been to an Omnimax.
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       | I was pretty confused and disappointed, which is a weird reaction
       | to have the first time in an IMAX theater. "It's just a big
       | screen... Where's the dome?"
        
         | mschulkind wrote:
         | "I grew up just a few blocks from here."
         | 
         | "Who put the bomp in the bomp sha bomp!"
         | 
         | I too had a similar reaction the first time I saw an imax.
        
           | russellbeattie wrote:
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       | classichasclass wrote:
       | I spent a great deal of time at Reuben H. Fleet as a kid growing
       | up in San Diego, playing in the science museum and watching
       | whatever Omnimax movie was on. Didn't matter what it was, they
       | were almost always great eye candy. Even saw, later, a Pink
       | Floyd-themed laser light show projected on the dome. Never failed
       | to impress.
        
       | madcaptenor wrote:
       | I miss the Omnimax they had at the Franklin Institute in
       | Philadelphia. They closed it during the pandemic and it never
       | reopened.
        
       | jsolson wrote:
       | I was surprised to see a mention of the Carnegie Science Center's
       | Omnimax and the year 1978 -- my recollection was that this
       | theater didn't open until I was both alive and cognizant enough
       | of the world around me to remember it.
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       | That seems consistent with this announcement from 2017 that the
       | theater was going to close (citing a quarter century):
       | https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/rangos-omnimax-theater-to...
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       | I couldn't find any press covering it from 1978, although this
       | directory of IMAX/Omnimax theaters from 1992 matches my
       | recollection of it opening in ~1991.
        
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