Progress is being made on the updated, high-tech CineDome at Orlando Science Center . Out are the old chairs and old-school film projector; incoming are new lights, speakers, 8K digital projectors and top-notch screen to line the eight-story sphere.

For now, the space is filled with scaffolding to be used to install panels of NanoSeam into their very specific spots.

“We worked it from the top down, where we’ll peel this screen off and then put the brand-new screen over the top of it,” Stephen Holt, vice president for facilities and exhibits, said during a tour of the theater. This is the future home for the museum’s very-big-screen movies, revived laser shows and traditional – but modern – planetarium presentations.

“We’re returning to our roots as a planetarium, and it isn’t just t

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