The Sphere hosted its first concert in Las Vegas over the weekend, and the stunning visuals and attendees were blown away.
The Sphere’s first performance was by U2e 18,000 fans on Friday, and their show was accented by The Sphere’s wraparound LED screen, the largest in the world. The screen showed optical illusions, realistic sunrises, and more while the band performed.
Sphere, the $2.3 billion venture, has been called the entertainment venue of the future. Inquiring minds want to know if it lives up to the hype. Are the interior visuals as eye-popping as the ones outside? Is U2, the beloved Irish band now in the latter stage of their career, the right act to christen this massive bauble of an arena?
Most attendees say yes, yes, and yes!
Built by Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Sphere is the world’s largest spherical structure. At 366 feet tall and 516 feet wide, the partially hollow arena could fit the entire Statue of Liberty, base to torch, comfortably inside.
Its cavernous, bowl-shaped theater contains a stage at the bottom level, flanked by what is reportedly the world’s largest and highest-resolution LED screen. The screen wraps up and around the audience members, and depending on the location of your seat, it can fill your entire field of vision.
In the multimedia entertainment world of today, overused buzzwords like “immersive” get thrown around a lot. But Sphere’s vast screen and pristine sound truly earn that label.
Visitors can walk through alleys and across parking lots to reach Sphere, just east of the Strip, although the easiest way is through a pedestrian walkway from the Venetian resort, a partner in the venture.
When you step inside, you are in a high-ceilinged atrium with hanging sculptural mobiles and long escalators leading to the upper levels. The screen is impressive and so dominant that it sometimes overwhelms the live performers. At times, you will not know where to look—at the band playing live or at the dazzling visuals going on everywhere else..
U2 performed on a simple stage built like a turntable, with the four musicians mostly rooted in the circular platter, although Bono roamed around the fringes. Almost every song came with animations and live footage on the enormous screen.
The wraparound screen conjured both scale and intimacy when Bono, The Edge, and other band members appeared in 80-foot-high video images projected above the stage. There was state-of-the-art sound from thousands of speakers embedded throughout the venue, and it did not disappoint.
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