{"id":167295,"date":"2023-07-11T00:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T05:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/enormous-2-billion-led-orb-in-las-vegas-looks-absolutely-deranged"},"modified":"2023-07-11T00:22:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T05:22:36","slug":"enormous-2-billion-led-orb-in-las-vegas-looks-absolutely-deranged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/enormous-2-billion-led-orb-in-las-vegas-looks-absolutely-deranged","title":{"rendered":"Enormous $2 Billion LED Orb in Las Vegas Looks Absolutely Deranged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/enormous-2-billion-led-orb-in-las-vegas-looks-absolutely-deranged2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sphere Entertainment, the Madison Square Garden-funded venture seeking to \u201creinvent\u201d live music, has started testing its first \u2014 and impressively large \u2014 LED-laden, orb-shaped music venue in Las Vegas, which is already being billed as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/jul\/06\/las-vegas-sphere-lights-up-dome-billed-world-largest-video-screen\" class=\"\">world\u2019s largest video screen<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First impressions: it looks absolutely bonkers, as evidenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SharpFootball\/status\/1676452370677477377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1676452370677477377%7Ctwgr%5Ecaba870553c687236db02199af39537208e19bf8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2023%2Fjul%2F06%2Flas-vegas-sphere-lights-up-dome-billed-world-largest-video-screen\" class=\"\">videos<\/a> of the orb in action.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-venetian-resort-starts-testing-its-giant-led-video-sphere-153112387.html\" class=\"\"><em>Engadget<\/em><\/a>, the 17,600-seat stadium, which cost over $2 billion to build, is a good 516 feet wide and 366 feet tall. Its LED-powered displays, combined with its 164,000-speaker audio system and added sensory elements \u2014 think what you\u2019d get at a 4D movie \u2014 are designed to create a completely immersive experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sphere Entertainment, the Madison Square Garden-funded venture seeking to \u201creinvent\u201d live music, has started testing its first \u2014 and impressively large \u2014 LED-laden, orb-shaped music venue in Las Vegas, which is already being billed as the \u201cworld\u2019s largest video screen.\u201d First impressions: it looks absolutely bonkers, as evidenced by videos of the orb in action. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}