Longwave is a studio for immersive 360° environments, collaborative authoring tools, and dome-scale civic experiences. We build spaces that hold what a community actually lives — its voices, its places, its memory — and carry them from a phone in your hand to a planetarium ceiling, from Cambridge to the Mississippi Delta to a mercado in Puebla.
We make spaces that hold the stories communities are already living. We carry the voices. We build the tools that let communities carry their own.
Singular, hand-crafted 360° environments — real people, real places, real time. Each one a document, not a simulation. Each one something a classroom, a museum, or a community center can actually open.
360 Studio lets multiple facilitators shape a spatial story together in real time. Voice. Video. Journals. Spatial audio. Made for community groups, not developers.
The same space opens on a fifth-grader's phone and projects across a sixty-foot planetarium ceiling. Same signal, different reach. That's the whole point of a longwave.
Each environment is an original capture — real place, real voices, real lived experience. Threaded together by Asili, our interpretive intelligence layer, so a story in the Delta can speak to a story in Puebla, and a question asked in Berlin in 2006 can meet a response in 2026.
A modular stack, built in the open, scaling from a living room to a sixty-foot dome. Real-time collaboration. Spatial audio as a first-class layer. AR and XR on the horizon.
Single-file builds. Adaptive video streaming. Hotspot navigation. Guided and self-guided tours. Runs on any phone, tablet, laptop, or headset — no app, no install.
Shape immersive spaces together, in real time. Multiple facilitators, multiple locations, one shared story. Voice annotations. Shared authorship. Communities own the data.
Ambisonic and binaural audio layered into every environment. Music in the Delta. The market in Puebla. The room tone of a memorial in Berlin. The most underrated layer of immersion, and often the most powerful.
Beyond the 360° sphere — walkable, volumetric captures of community spaces. 4D scenes where time becomes a dimension. Active R&D, deployed where it carries the story.
Content re-projected for fulldome systems — from five-meter inflatable domes in elementary schools to sixty-foot fixed planetariums. A channel that's almost never carried civic stories, until now.
The rooms meet the street. AR layers documentary assets onto real-world locations — Parramore sidewalks, Delta crossroads, Berlin memorials. Two front doors into the same story.
Drop a 360° space into a browser. Kids walk through a mercado in Mexico, a juke joint in the Delta, a barber shop in Orlando. Curriculum-ready. No headsets needed.
Dome projection, wall-scale installation, gesture- and LiDAR-responsive experiences. In conversation with the new immersive wing at the Museum of Science, Boston. Built for the institutional scale.
MIT Open Documentary Lab fellows have walked the spaces. Harvard Kennedy conversations on Indigenous data sovereignty connect directly. Research-grade primary material for documentary, civic tech, and governance study.
360 Studio lets organizers, elders, and youth shape the space together — no developer required. Your voices, your lived experience, your data. We set it up; you run it.
Traveling dome programming, family open houses, evening community conversations. Infrastructure for civic dialogue — placed inside the buildings people already trust.
Music as a listenable space. Live dome performances, immersive album releases, documentary film festival exhibits — where spatial storytelling meets a live audience.
The spatial web is being built right now — mostly without us.
Apple, Meta, and Google are scanning every street and every room to build their version of spatial reality. Communities are the backdrop. Their neighborhoods become someone else's infrastructure.
Longwave is a counter-claim. A 360° capture made by or with a community is not a scan — it's a document. It carries the evidentiary weight of a photograph. It says: this was real, these people stood here, this is what it looked like from the inside.
When neighborhoods get redeveloped, displaced, or erased — these spaces remain.
The planetariums and traveling domes in your community library, children's school, or science center have almost no content that isn't astronomy. Longwave brings culturally-rooted, community-authored fulldome experiences — a neighborhood in the Delta, a mercado in Puebla, a global gathering of voices on the future of democracy. Facilitated. Curriculum-aligned. Ready to book.
We partner with planetariums from Rhode Island to Colorado. We submit to Dome Fest West. We license to school systems. We'll bring our own projection rig if you bring the dome.
Longwave is a practice. Practices need people. These are ours.
Whether you're a fifth-grade teacher, a planetarium director, a community organizer, a museum, a funder, or just curious — we want the conversation. One email opens the door.