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Las Vegas' $2.3 Billion LED Sphere Looked Better in Renderings

From the ground, it's kind of underwhelming

By Rain Noe - July 10
in Tech

Amid much fanfare, this month media company Sphere Entertainment
unveiled their MSG Sphere, "The world's largest LED screen," in Las
Vegas. Standing 336' tall and 516' wide, the sphere's exterior is
covered in 580,000 square feet of LEDs. ("A creative canvas so bold
and bright you can see it from space!" the developers write, for
those who often go to space and are tired of only seeing the Great
Wall.)

While the Sphere looks pretty sick in renderings where the vantage
point is floating above it...

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...from the ground it actually looks kind of, well, limited:

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Don't get me wrong: The sheer size of the Sphere does accomplish its
main purpose, which is to awe. But the rub is that the $2.3 billion
structure is really only good at displaying spherical objects like
planets, gigantic basketballs or jack-o-lanterns:

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Aside from that, the massively curved screen, from the perspective of
a person or camera on the ground, provides too much distortion to
make sense as a readable display. No matter where you're standing,
only the center of the screen is perpendicular to your eyeballs,
while the bulk of the imagery is on the vast periphery and thus
skewed.

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The company has made video of it unembeddable, but you can judge for
yourself here.

That being said, perhaps it looks amazing from the inside. Video of
the interior has not yet been released, but the Sphere is hollow and
intended to serve as a 17,385-seat concert venue featuring a 160,000
square foot "LED media plane" (of a currently unspecified shape) that
will display imagery. U2 will be the inaugural performers with two
sold-out concerts slated for late September.

 

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    The exterior must get hot as hell in the summer..... 
    Does it work during the day?  Every single picture is at night.

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    2.3 billion on a giant screen... that money couldn't have gone
    ANYWHERE else?

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    Vegas... 

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