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

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It's very impressive and kind of mind blowing in person. I don't know what they're on about. I live 15 miles away and can see it from the skyline, when you're down by the strip it just looms there and looks insane. Some of the scenes are better than others but that's just art direction.

Wrong, it's a pretty good attraction. Sure, it can be better but it's a great landmark anyway you look at it.

I don't get the criticism. Several of the images do show text on it. I am not going to use it to read large bodies of text, duh.

Furthermore, it appears they haven't even tried to warp the text to appear flat.

I'm sure as they progress and get more creative, they'll be doing layouts such as the 3D billboards in Times Square https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0JyEbZh--M

Or how Australian Rugby fields have sponsors that appear 3d from the angle of the camera on TV https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/10pnuf/a...

Personally, I think it's stunning and an amazing piece of display tech. They built a 1/10 scale studio in Burbank to design content for it. I think it can be a valid creative format in its own right.

Everybody flying into Las Vegas can see the sphere. It’s not meant to be viewed on the ground (most large objects cannot be fully appreciated at ground level)

Huh. In any case, I think the main point of its existence is on the inside.

Something with that page makes it hard to load in Chrome. It hangs the browser after only rendering several images. I can see the page properly in Firefox.

Turns out it was some interaction with AdGuard. Once I turned it off the page rendered quickly.

That's kinda neat. I'm curious the business model behind it. Sure is expensive.

Remember that it is an arena inside of LED display. Much of the cost is for the arena. The Intuit Dome is under construction for Clippers is $2 billion budget but that includes whole complex. The UBS Arena for Islanders was $1 billion. It sounds like the pandemic made the Sphere a lot more expensive.

The business model is hosting concerts and entertainment events. Las Vegas is probably a good place for events with all the tourists. But Vegas has a bunch of arenas. The Sphere also seems dedicated venue as opposed to T-Mobile Arena that hosts hockey.

Billion dollar catfish scandal?

Goodness Los Vegas is trashy

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