www.avinteractive.com: With a 16K x 16K resolution, the Sphere’s 15,000 sq metre interior LED display plane is the highest-resolution LED screen in the world. It soars to a height of more than 70 metres, and has more than 12,000 sq metres of immersive display surface, warping up, over and around the audience. Meanwhile, the 54,000 sq metre exterior Exosphere is the largest LED screen in the world.
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While some people may see this as a pretty pointless installation, I am really amazed at how the Sphere works. Seeing the pictures from the outside, it really is a stunning accomplishment in video screen technology at such a large scale. What it more interesting to me, though, is the pictures from the inside. The scale at which every screen needed to interface with the processing unit and each screen around it is incredible to see. The amount of planning and labor that had to go into a project such as this is almost a nightmare to wrap your head around, but makes up what is now arguably one of the coolest things in Las Vegas. The other part of it that I really enjoy is that fact that each panel isn't just like a video panel you would see in theatre, but instead each panel is it's own 4K screen with a 60Hz refresh rate means that even more processing power would need to go into the severs just do to the sheer amounts of data that need to be processed in order to make it such a seamless effect. I do think it is a little silly on paper, just to build a big video screen sphere, but looking at the final construction is truly awe-inspiring.
I have been following the construction of the Las Vegas sphere pretty closely and this is an exciting piece of news. 7thSense has a good history of doing innovative and incredible things with technology like this and it has got me excited. Their new range of performers is a cool touch and not one that I expected. The company also just takes a different approach to media like this and uses it to communicate messages through their art and have it be meaningful and beautiful. I didn't know that the company had been working with the Rockettes and MSG but that makes a lot of sense because the visual media with MSG has always been fantastic and has really shown some of the most innovative uses of this technology. The words that the CEO and chairperson said really seem genuine and I also agree with what they say, that they have been on the forefront of technology like this, and I am happy about it.
I have kind of mixed feelings about the sphere, I’ve seen a lot of photos and video of it and it honestly just looks kind of weird. I feel like it always looks photoshopped into its surroundings since it’s such a perfectly crisp video screen while the area around it is buildings whose appearance is affected by the natural light and aspects like that. However, it is undeniably an impressive feat of construction. It’s really cool to read some of these specific facts about aspects of the interior and exterior video screens. I didn’t know that the outside shell was the world’s largest video screen, but it makes a lot of sense. The fact that it is possible to construct such a futuristic building and have all of the computing and processing capabilities to run it is such a cool testament to the development of technology. Regardless, I still think it looks odd and somewhat ugly.
This installation is something that seems like it has no real applications outside of what it is. However it could have some very real applications in theatre. The technology used could be scaled down to create very unique effects on stage. As technology gets bigger and better, the smaller stuff gets cheaper and this may be something we see relatively commonly on sets to represent a crystal globe or something of the sort. And in later iterations could even start making larger portions of set out of, by simply covering it with a thin material to remove the need for a projection surface. Especially given how annoying it currently is to make sure all the surfaces are a projection ready material and that there’s nothing in the way of the material. This would allow actors to stand in front of it and not interfere with the image. Overall this is really unique technology that I’d love to see applied to theatre.
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