# First amusement ride to use a 360 degree dome screen

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**Created:** [April 1, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-amusement-ride-to-use-a-360-degree-dome-screen/654511 "2013-04-01T08:06:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![ac05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@ac05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ac05)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-amusement-ride-to-use-a-360-degree-dome-screen/654511/1 "2013-04-01T08:06:10Z")

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What was the first amusement ride to use a 360 degree dome screen? I believe it was Back to the Future: the Ride. I’m not sure if the ride used a 360 degree screen though. Am I wrong? Wondering if anyone has info on what the first ride to use a 360 degree dome screen was.

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**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-amusement-ride-to-use-a-360-degree-dome-screen/654511/2 "2013-04-01T17:18:01Z")

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Back to the Future didn’t. At least, not if you are referring to the ride at **Universal Studios Hollywood**.

A 360 degree dome?

The IMAX dome for BttF:TR only extended to the front and sides(not behind or beneath the ride vehicles, obviously) as seen in[this diagram](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Back_to_the_Future_Ride_system.png).

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-amusement-ride-to-use-a-360-degree-dome-screen/654511/3 "2013-04-01T18:18:30Z")

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I don’t know if you’d call it a ride, but my first wrap-around experience was [Circle-Vision 360 - America the Beautiful](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle-Vision_360%C2%B0)at Disneyland. People stood in the middle of the theater, next to hand rails, so that we’d be free to turn around and look in all directions.

It’s been closed for awhile. I kind of miss it.

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**Author:** ![ac05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@ac05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ac05)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-amusement-ride-to-use-a-360-degree-dome-screen/654511/4 "2013-04-01T20:17:35Z")

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> [@Sarabellum1976](#):
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> Back to the Future didn’t. At least, not if you are referring to the ride at **Universal Studios Hollywood**.
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> A 360 degree dome?
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> The IMAX dome for BttF:TR only extended to the front and sides(not behind or beneath the ride vehicles, obviously) as seen in[this diagram](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Back_to_the_Future_Ride_system.png).

In that case, I wonder if that takes away from the experience of the ride.

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**Author:** ![ac05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecb155/32.png) [@ac05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ac05)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-amusement-ride-to-use-a-360-degree-dome-screen/654511/5 "2013-04-01T20:25:05Z")

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So, no info on what the first ride to use a 360 degree dome screen was?