Concept render: a person reclining in Umbra eyewear beneath the Milky Way, the Moon, a spiral galaxy and Saturn

SOLARTERIUMYOUR PRIVATE UNIVERSE.

Put on Umbra and discover a new way to explore the cosmos. Solarterium is a private celestial experience designed for Umbra eyewear—from the worlds of our Solar System to the structures beyond our galaxy.

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An Umbra Experience by Reality Modulation

Concept render: a woman reclining in Umbra eyewear as Saturn and the stars fill her view

Enter Solarterium

Your room ends.
The universe begins.

Solarterium is designed to be chosen from inside Umbra’s experience interface. Select it, and the view is envisioned to open onto a complete celestial environment you can look around and explore.

You are not watching a planetarium. You are inside your own.

  1. 01  Umbra

  2. 02  Experiences

  3. 03  Solarterium

Proposed flow — Umbra → Experiences → Solarterium. Interface concept, not final design.

Your celestial neighborhood

Meet the neighbors.

From the Moon to the edge of what we know. Begin at home and travel outward, one neighbor at a time.

  1. The whole Earth photographed by the Apollo 17 crew, Africa and Antarctica under swirling cloud

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    Home

    Earth

    Every journey starts here — 12,742 km across.

    Image: NASA · Apollo 17 crew

  2. The full Moon, visualized from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data

    02

    384,400 km

    The Moon

    Our closest companion, about a quarter of Earth’s width.

    Image: NASA Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio · LRO data

  3. Viking orbiter mosaic of Mars and the Valles Marineris canyon system

    03

    1.5 AU from the Sun

    Mars

    A cold desert world, roughly half the size of Earth.

    Image: NASA/JPL/USGS · Viking Orbiter mosaic

  4. Cassini photograph of Jupiter’s banded clouds and the Great Red Spot

    04

    5.2 AU from the Sun

    Jupiter

    About eleven Earths would fit across it.

    Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · Cassini

  5. Cassini photograph of Saturn, its rings and the planet’s shadow falling across them

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    9.5 AU from the Sun

    Saturn

    Its bright rings span roughly 270,000 km.

    Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · Cassini, PIA06193

  6. Voyager 2 images of Uranus and Neptune side by side at true relative size

    06

    19 and 30 AU

    Uranus & Neptune

    The ice giants, at the far edge of the planets.

    Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech · Voyager 2 · composite, sizes to scale

  7. 07

    4.2 light-years

    Nearby stars

    Proxima Centauri is the nearest star beyond the Sun.

  8. The crowded centre of the Milky Way combined from Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra data

    08

    ~100,000 ly across

    The Milky Way

    Our galaxy, seen from the inside.

    Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/STScI · Galactic centre, Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra

  9. The Andromeda galaxy in ultraviolet light from NASA’s GALEX telescope

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    2.5 million ly

    Andromeda

    The nearest large galaxy to our own.

    Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech · GALEX ultraviolet view of Andromeda

  10. Webb’s First Deep Field, crowded with thousands of distant galaxies

    10

    Beyond

    The deep universe

    Galaxies beyond counting.

    Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI · Webb’s First Deep Field

  • Moon: 3,474 km across
  • Mercury: 4,879 km across
  • Mars: 6,779 km across
  • Venus: 12,104 km across
  • Earth: 12,742 km across
  • Neptune: 49,244 km across
  • Uranus: 50,724 km across
  • Saturn: 116,460 km across
  • Jupiter: 139,820 km across
Diameters to scale · distances are not

Signature interaction

Bring it closer.

Pick something in the sky, then move from its place among the stars toward a detailed view of it.

Saturn

Saturn · Sky view

Concept
Choose an object

An exploration visualization: Solarterium is designed to move from an object’s place in the sky to a detailed rendering of it. It is not telescopic or optical magnification, and the imagery is not live.

Explore

Choose a destination.

All destinations
Concept render: young students in a classroom wearing Umbra eyewear, looking up in wonderConcept render

Solarterium for learning

Explore your celestial neighborhood.

Don’t just show students a diagram.
Let them explore.

Education is an emerging direction for Solarterium: journeys that let young explorers see the scale and structure of the universe for themselves. It is being shaped now, not deployed in classrooms today.

  • Earth & Moon
  • The Solar System
  • Meet the Planets
  • Our Sun
  • Stars & Constellations
Solarterium for Education

Guided journeys

Go somewhere.

Journeys envisioned for Solarterium — each one a story told across the sky, not a chapter in a textbook.

  • 01

    Tour the Solar System

    Leave the Sun behind and keep going until the planets run out.

    Image: NASA/SDO and the AIA science team · 304 Å extreme ultraviolet

  • 02

    Follow the life of a star

    From a glowing cloud of gas to whatever it leaves behind.

    Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI · Webb, Carina Nebula

  • 03

    Explore the moons of Jupiter

    Four worlds Galileo saw first, each stranger than the last.

    Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · Cassini

  • 04

    Discover Saturn

    Ice, rock and ring — at your own pace.

    Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute · Cassini, PIA06193

  • 05

    Find our place in the Milky Way

    Look out at the galaxy from the inside.

  • 06

    From Earth to Andromeda

    Two and a half million light-years in a single journey.

    Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech · GALEX ultraviolet view of Andromeda

Journey concepts · in development

Time & place

Another sky.
Another time.

The sky you see depends on where you stand and when you look. Solarterium envisions letting you change both.

NORTH CELESTIAL POLE
Illustration · not a sky calculation

The Solarterium vision includes exploring the sky from another place and another time. The pole height here follows latitude, but the stars are decorative: historical and future sky positions will not be presented until the underlying astronomical calculations have been validated.

UMBRA

Solarterium Edition

The Solarterium Edition uses the same Umbra eyewear technology, presented in a special edition created around celestial exploration.

Concept render of the Umbra Solarterium Edition box, with Earth’s horizon and Umbra eyewear on the frontPackaging concept
Concept render of the Solarterium Edition box beside Umbra eyewear and a quick start guidePackaging concept
Discover the Edition

Already have Umbra?

Solarterium is being designed as an experience within Umbra — not as a reason to buy a second pair of identical glasses. The intention is that compatible Umbra eyewear can open Solarterium without the Edition.

How Solarterium relates to Umbra →

Companion app

Solarterium app

Coming soon

A companion for choosing destinations, reading about what you’re seeing and setting up journeys. The immersive experience itself stays with Umbra eyewear.

About the app

Interface concepts · not yet available

Solarterium

SOLARTERIUM

YOUR PRIVATE UNIVERSE.

Put on Umbra and explore your celestial neighborhood—from the worlds closest to home to the structures of the deep universe.

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An Umbra Experience by Reality Modulation

SEE THE UNSEEN. It’s always been there.