The Sphere is 366 feet (112 m) high and 516 feet (157 m) wide at its broadest point. It is the largest spherical building in the world at 875,000 sq ft (81,300 m2). It includes seating for 18,600 people, and all seats have high speed internet access. Haptic technology is incorporated into 10,000 of the venue’s seats. Seating does not wrap around the entire sphere, instead covering approximately two-thirds of the interior while the stage takes up the remainder. The venue can accommodate 20,000 people in standing capacity. The Sphere has nine levels, including the basement, where a VIP club is located. A total of 23 suites are included, across the third and fifth floors.
The Sphere’s interior is equipped with a 16K resolution wraparound LED screen, measuring 160,000 sq ft (15,000 m2). It is the largest and highest-resolution LED screen in the world.[46] The exterior of the venue features 580,000 sq ft (54,000 m2) of LED display space, which can feature holiday themes, with the Sphere depicting a Halloween jack-o’-lantern or a Christmas snow globe, for instance. Both the interior and exterior screens were manufactured by SACO Technologies, a Canadian company specializing in LED video displays and lighting.
The Sphere features a spatial audio system based on Holoplot’s X1 speaker module, which uses beamforming and wave field synthesis technologies and is equipped with 96 drivers each. The sound system comprises 1,600 X1 speakers that are installed behind the LED panels, along with 300 mobile modules, for a total of 167,000 speaker drivers. The sound system also can deliver sound through the floorboards. 4D features, including scent and wind, can be used.
The arena will primarily host awards shows and concerts, in addition to other entertainment events. Though not designed to fit a traditional arena layout for sports such as basketball and ice hockey, it can host ring sports events such as boxing and mixed martial arts, as well as esports tournaments.
The property includes 304 parking spaces, while additional spaces will be available at the parking garages for the nearby Venetian, Palazzo, and Venetian Expo. A 1,000-foot (300 m) pedestrian bridge will connect the Sphere to the expo, and there are plans to build a new Las Vegas Monorail station to serve the Sphere and the Venetian. However, these plans were put on hold in April 2020, due to the financial impact of the pandemic.
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It’s definitely cool. I don’t really like being inundated by LED video boards, so I don’t think I’d like it. I can certainly understand how others would enjoy it.
I'm not sure the Sphere is really competitive with a T-Mobile Arena or Allegiant Stadium or whatever garbage the A's come up with. The added production cost to really utilize the Sphere properly lends itself to residencies far more than one off concerts. I could see some major residencies, like a Taylor Swift or Metallica, but I could also see some of the newer "innovators" like Periphery, Ren, or Avenged Sevenfold taking advantage of the uniqueness of the Sphere.
So during next year's Stanley Cup playoffs, are we going to see crowds cheering the Knights from inside of the sphere (and wow, what would that look like) instead of from outside T-Mobile Arena?
Dami Lee did a great video on this recently. The big problem this venue is going to run into is that it'll be difficult for bands to include this as a stop in their tour. The amount of video content that they'd have to make that is compatible with inside of the sphere is a huge undertaking. You can't just take a video that is already shown behind a band on a stadium show and throw it up on the screen in the sphere, it all has to be custom done, using their own proprietary cameras and software. Every band that wants to play there has to do a few months of work out of their own pocket just to make the visual experience come to life. And that cost will be factored in to the ticket prices. Add on to that the cost of electricity to run the led screens inside and out is estimated to be around $17 million a year. Divide that by the amount of shows the MSG Sphere will run and the number of seats available plus all of the money the band has to recoup plus their regular booking fee and you end up with concerts that cost a bare minimum of $1,000. Only the biggest of acts like U2 can make this feasible because they have to be able to sell out every seat at extremely high ticket prices.
When you think Vegas you think showy, extravagant, pizzazz, over the top. This 'Sphere' definitely fits the description. A bottom budget baseball team with an average stadium does not!
Diplo, who now wants to perform in there.
What an optical illusion to the max! Wicked cool! The rock band Styx had a song called "The Grand Illusion" back in 1977. I'd say that this Sphere puts the Toronto Skydome (currently The Rodgers Center) in MLB to shame, not to mention the Houston Astrodome which opened, in1965…So much for "The Eighth Wonder of the World!"
What an optical illusion to the max! Wicked cool! The rock band Styx had a song called "The Grand Illusion" back in 1977. I'd say that this Sphere puts the Toronto Skydome (currently The Rodgers Center) in MLB to shame, not to even mention the Houston Astrodome which opened, on April 9. 1965…So much for "The Eighth Wonder of the World!" which was demolitioned on December 8, 2013.
LV is the cutting edge of entertainment. Nothing is close and that's why people flock there for epic vacations.
The new Rays stadium in St Pete is gonna be the cube
Brodie Brazil logic:
Anything goes "wrong" in Vegas (Sphere cost overruns, Sphere behind schedule in construction, increased traffic around Sphere, distracted drivers around Sphere, high parking costs for Sphere, people have to walk a block behind the Strip and stand in long lines to enter Sphere):
Brodie: The A's shouldn't even try to build a ballpark on the Tropicana site because there will be so many problems and it can't possibly be done well.
The Sphere opens up, and people like it:
Brodie: The A's shouldn't even try to build a ballpark on the Tropicana site because it can't possibly be as good as the other stuff that, despite all the naysayers, was built and succeeded.
WOW! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
London wants one
I think people will consider ticket cost! Have you seen how tickets are to the Sphere?
The Sphere is pretty impressive and actually better than I thought. To get to your point, the issue is COST. If you are putting on a concert there, its expensive to make the video images that make it worthy and can only be used at that one venue, along with the gate fee.
The Sphere is today's Carnegie Hall for today's artists. Its unique in that its only for art, not sports. And that is what attracted U2 to it. So to answer your question, would a performer make more money at 30,000 seat baseball stadium or the 18,000 Sphere with higher production costs. Given how many music concerts there are in Vegas, I don't see the issue. There is a plan to put one in London but people there are fighting against it.
I can see Cirque du Soleil create a unique experience for this venue.
Brodie,
This was originally the MSG SPHERE coming from the MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. Another one is being built in London England
Here's another video for your review
https://youtu.be/giuNhNZSL2M?si=E8rSDXkc29P6pOdT
It was originally was to cost $1.5 B & ended up costing more than $2 0 BILLION
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Just imagine if they knew how to film anything.
From my perspective, The Sphere will be a mostly tourist-oriented venue. The hype and popularity is going to push the ticket prices to the moon. (Yeah. It'll get paid off quick.) I think the NBA will be fine. The Association is a personality-driven league, much more intimate in scale, and like with VGK, the NBA team will be a Vegas original with good management. The A's?… 🤣…Let's put it this way. The Sphere is a dish of wagyu beef. The A's are Salisbury steak, if not Vienna sausage. Baseball is an aloof game, played at large scale, and constantly marred by bad umpiring. Basketball, like hockey, is high-speed and dramatic, with a constant dose of excitement. Baseball? Time for a snooze between innings. Basketball? You go to the concession stand at peril of missing something. The Las Vegas Blackjacks, or whatever they end up calling the NBA team, will get love from the celebrity element. You can imagine celebs following their teams to town. The A's have already pissed off and totally alienated any celebrity fans that they ever had. (Tom Hanks, for instance.)…(Just as an aside. Something that I heard was that one of the reasons other than economics that there were two proposals for movie studios in Vegas – for which interestingly the Nevada legislature tabled the film production credits in favor of this A's fiasco – was that the studios could use whatever downtime The Sphere had for special effects filming. I would think CGI or AI could do the same thing, but apparently there are some who think it works better in The Sphere. I don't know if that's true, but it's interesting.)…Anyway, compared to the A's, The Sphere is in a class by itself. I think the far bigger competition for the A's would be the sportsbooks. Newer casinos are going to have ritzier and more tech advanced screens – possibly approaching virtual reality in the near future – to the point that paying an expensive ticket for a baseball game being played 300 feet away from you with clamshell seating, overpriced hotdogs, and warm beer is going to seem wasteful…
They are planning a Sphere in London.
A’s should abandon a retractable roof and make it like the sphere.