The StarPort Cafe Experience
StarPort Café is an immersive space-themed environment, carefully designed to evoke in its guests the difficult-to-communicate experience of space travel and the effect it has on astronauts, most commonly referred to in the space community as the Overview Effect.
Design Model
StarPort Café is a futuristic multi-unit space media and simulation center wrapped around a community-style coffeehouse. Special use units include a simulation media center, 3D theater, the Overview Experience theater, a gift shop and a full-service coffee bar and dining area. Information, entertainment and our eye-catching design combine to delight the eye, inform the mind and inspire the imagination about the New Space Age.
Our Content
StarPort content is an eclectic mix of traditional space science, technology, historical information, space art, virtual reality and 3D demonstrations as well as entrepreneurial plans and visions for the future of our space-bound civilization.
Technology
StarPort is not only a space-themed environment. It is a visit to the near future. To create this futuristic effect, we will use a variety of cutting-edge technologies, including robotics, virtual reality recliner chairs, 3D screens, magnetic levitating globes, holographic projections and the new Digital Showscan system.
Our Visionary Concept
The emergence of commercial space travel for private citizens will take the world by surprise. The New Space Age will push us to our limits, challenge our thinking and tear down the various barriers that have kept us apart.
The Overview Experience
The Overview Experience, a concept by special effects legend Douglas Trumbull, provides a visceral simulation of the thrilling spaceship ride into space and the perspective-altering view of the Earth as a planet hanging in a universe of stars.