A 2.3 *billion* dollar venue. That's like a small country's GDP. Amazing that this kind of investment power and will to develop and create tech exists.
One person owns it. I'm a oversize truck driver and one of the construction workers at the sphere told me that when I delivered there during its build.
No, not 16k - 'To film imagery for the immersive display venue, the studio has developed Big Sky, a custom single-lens camera system with a 316-megapixel, 3-inch x 3-inch HDR image sensor that it says can capture 18K x 18K images up to 120 frames per second.' - source : The Hollywood Reporter, June 12, 2023.
@@paolo11x11 they say in the video that the Sphere's screen is 16000x16000; you can see the screen-safe zone on the camera's preview monitors (green line).
This reminds me so much of the iMax Dome Theatre in Toronto Science Centre. Just 30 years more advanced and using LEDs instead of projectors. The Science Centres giant circular screen was one of the coolest theatres I've been to, this much be even crazier.
I love that fulldome content is getting the love it deserves.
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I've been in such (much smaller) sphere cinema in Poland, where it was simply inflated hemisphere and the video was projected on it. Still it was impressive.
@@THE-X-Force Live here in Vegas and have gone to go see it. I am lucky enough to be able to go whenever the tickets are at their lowest due to living here so I paid $50 dollars which was a great deal. The show itself is around 50 minutes to an hour in length so not a very long showing but still amazing for what it is. That being said, most tickets are around 150 when I was checking for good times and good days. We went on a Sunday night at 9:30pm and that is how we got the cheaper tickets. We sat in section 204. From what I hear, the 200s and the 300s are the best sections to be in. We sat toward the left side and did not feel like sitting in the middle would have been that much better. The screen is massive and you don’t really remember where you are sitting. Hope that helps
@@ezra_samayoa1 Wow .. that was very kind of you to write all of that up .. I Genuinely appreciate it! and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Thank you! ☮
Oculus has something like this in the meta app. They have showings of some History channel like videos it's pretty cool. It's the meta verse museum where you can watch with other ppl around the world who also own the oculus quest headset.
The sphere should digitize the 15/70 Oppenheimer film print in 30k res. because they can show the full detail of the film print on the screen without projecting it. Digitize the frames in 30k res. Instead of 18 - 20k to futureproof the digitization effort.
Actually those tiny LEDs have a really long lifespan because they are not OLEDs, they don't develop burn in and they can get extremely bright, like 1000 candels per square meter or more.
I should note that this isn't new, Vancouver, BC had a system called the 'Omnimax' back in the mid 2000's that I went to view a nature movie in. Spectacular, but this Sphere takes it to a whole new level.
I agree, in time square in NYC uses the same tech, fat large array of LEDs to make a screen. The only nice thing about the sphere is that it's shaped like a sphere, its massive and 3D spatial sound. It's like the sound directly hitting towards your face from the source.
lol, mid 2000's? Youngin', IMAX's first permanent dome installation was 1973. But trying to compare anything that has come before to this is silly. Like comparing a small satellite to the space station.
Shout out to the Omni theater at Boston Museum of science! Wasn't as big as this larry but was fun, I got memories back at least 30 years. The intro before the showing was great, voiced by the legendary Leonard Nimoy who "grew up a few blocks from here." Hahahaha, close your eyes and turn your head yo. Where the musical stairs at?!?!?!?!
I read somewhere (source evades me at the moment) that each pixel on the outside of Sphere is the size of a hockey puck. I don't remember how many of them they said there are. It is possible, though I don't think I am, that I am incorrect.
It's a separate screen - there's a roof in between, after all. The outer screen has more 'area' because it covers the complete exterior, but it's lower resolution with larger lights.
Yes they are entirely different from the ones on the inside. Here is the outside up close: supercarblondie.com/wp-content/uploads/las-vegas-sphere-led-lights-03.jpg and: i.insider.com/651d7d8a2ce014759e748641?width=700
How long does the leds last before decaying. And does the uneven heating, uv explosure makes one localized area dimmer than others. Additionally, how often does the sphere need to be washed and dedust
Here's a question. Is the angle so wide that if two of the cameras were placed side by side in the same orientation, would they be able to see each other? Because there's a type of 3D glasses that use LCD shutters, and they can work on any screen with a high enough frame rate.
Incredible explanation! Thanks! I still have questions about how the outside of the sphere works? Are these the same LED panels that are inside? How does it work in case of rain, lightning and dust and dirt that accumulate over time? Hugs from Brazil!
People hate the sphere I cannot understand why…they complain “wahhh it’s just a screen”, willfully ignorant, this is an amazing technological marvel. The ILLUSION of BEING THERE(wherever the shot being shown is) is crazy
we arw watching the birth of a new movie medium! i’m very excited to get something this cool while i’m alive, I missed out on Polyvision, Cinemascope, Cinerama, etc.
I started out with Black & Wh movies and remember when my parents took me to the first color movie and then the first Cinerama a extra wide screen in vivid color and a newish theater on Lincoln Blvd just south of Santa Monica. Wow, of course, it was a Western. I loved the scenery in those movies. And there were no fleas in the theater like the one at the beach and the three downtown S.M. (1950 ish). This looks magical.
@@lucysphotosfromar that's fascinating! I missed it because I'm only 20 years old, so it's interesting to actually find someone who witnessed Cinerama for real! I've watched cinerama but digitalised on TV, I always found it interesting how the format looks, and how it looks like 3 films stitched together (which they are). It's fascinating stuff. I can't imagine how it was to sync all the projectors together back then.
There really would not be any Lens distortion because the screen is a dome, on a flat screen the footage is super distorted and I’m assuming the multiple reds facing each way makes all the edge distortion go away
I love the sectional view ~30 seconds in, I think that's the first thing I've seen (having not actually been inside it yet) that really conveys the size of the thing on the inside. It's a bit TARDIS-y
I'm honestly surprised it's pixel density is that bad. Only 16k pixels by 16k pixels in such an enormous theater is really tiny. And then she said your iPhone has 2k by 1k and it fits in your hand. So just 16 iPhone stacked side by side would have more pixels than that the biggest screen in the world
@@littlehippo5004 Why not give these companies some credit ? We shouldn't be embarrassed to give some props to others for their design/Research & development effort. Even if in this context , it was more about how limited a full-frame can be.
imagine this tech being cheap in the future and people will go see movies in mini version of the ball. Even better, an experience like this in your living room. Now i'd save my money from today for that to be in my house. well i need to save money to buy a house all well though.
It's really amazing to me when people with no knowledge on a subject assume that people who are experts in it don't know what they're doing and that the "simple" solution they've come up with in their head is obviously better than the way it's actually being done.
Wow that spacewalk film is something I'd actually go to see, what a beautiful idea
Totally agree
Amazing that there was so much airspace between the LEDS yet it looks like a continuous image.
scale
Woah, love how they want to send this to space rather than just do it in CG! I would go to Vegas just to see that.
Ehh the space is cgi and so is the ISS
CGI>Sending a camera to space
@@ocdvfx Probably cheaper sending a camera to space than CGI these days.
A 2.3 *billion* dollar venue. That's like a small country's GDP. Amazing that this kind of investment power and will to develop and create tech exists.
They will generate many fold more money, then this investment.
So was roughly OnlyFans gross income
One person owns it. I'm a oversize truck driver and one of the construction workers at the sphere told me that when I delivered there during its build.
@@ruggedtechie5867 It is owned by a company not a person. Construction workers aren’t the best source for this type of information.
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TL;DR - It's a 16k camera with a massive fisheye lens. They use VR to help simulate what it'll look like in production.
God forbid anyone can't pay attention for seven minutes straight. Good job encouraging those losers,
No, not 16k - 'To film imagery for the immersive display venue, the studio has developed Big Sky, a custom single-lens camera system with a 316-megapixel, 3-inch x 3-inch HDR image sensor that it says can capture 18K x 18K images up to 120 frames per second.' - source : The Hollywood Reporter, June 12, 2023.
@@ELLPCg why did they say in the video they upscale to 16k from 4k
@@chipwolf5325 IIRC they edit with 4k proxies because that 16k footage would be insanely taxing for any computer to deal with
@@paolo11x11 they say in the video that the Sphere's screen is 16000x16000; you can see the screen-safe zone on the camera's preview monitors (green line).
This reminds me so much of the iMax Dome Theatre in Toronto Science Centre. Just 30 years more advanced and using LEDs instead of projectors. The Science Centres giant circular screen was one of the coolest theatres I've been to, this much be even crazier.
we had a dome in little rock ar it was sooo cool they closed it and it had a clause that no one could ever used that property for that again.
I love that fulldome content is getting the love it deserves.
I've been in such (much smaller) sphere cinema in Poland, where it was simply inflated hemisphere and the video was projected on it. Still it was impressive.
where is it?
@@jacek3358 It was temporary in amusement park in Wrocław, It's long gone.
Seems like a simple and lucrative idea...
Using projector or LED?
@@3nityC they were using projector
This is incredible because it represents the beginning of new era. Can't wait to see it in person
Saw "Postcard.." last week. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! Totally worth the price. Incredible technology and visually stunning.
May I ask what you paid for a ticket and how easy it was to buy/order one?
How much was it? And do you think seating matters much? I mean .. center, right, left, forward, rear, etc.?
how muuchh!! we wanna know!!!
@@THE-X-Force Live here in Vegas and have gone to go see it. I am lucky enough to be able to go whenever the tickets are at their lowest due to living here so I paid $50 dollars which was a great deal. The show itself is around 50 minutes to an hour in length so not a very long showing but still amazing for what it is. That being said, most tickets are around 150 when I was checking for good times and good days. We went on a Sunday night at 9:30pm and that is how we got the cheaper tickets. We sat in section 204. From what I hear, the 200s and the 300s are the best sections to be in. We sat toward the left side and did not feel like sitting in the middle would have been that much better. The screen is massive and you don’t really remember where you are sitting. Hope that helps
@@ezra_samayoa1 Wow .. that was very kind of you to write all of that up .. I Genuinely appreciate it! and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Thank you! ☮
Dude this thing is so impressive and technologically advanced!!
If Christopher Nolan isn't drooling at the thought of making a film for the Sphere...
Would love to see a premium theater devoted to this format.
I would love to see some sort of ground-level macro shot with this camera. Like the feeling of being a bug in a blade of grass.
Oculus has something like this in the meta app. They have showings of some History channel like videos it's pretty cool. It's the meta verse museum where you can watch with other ppl around the world who also own the oculus quest headset.
Although I'd rather go see it in person in this thunderdome
Im glad they worked so hard on this, it really has upped the bar
The sphere should digitize the 15/70 Oppenheimer film print in 30k res. because they can show the full detail of the film print on the screen without projecting it.
Digitize the frames in 30k res. Instead of 18 - 20k to futureproof the digitization effort.
Unfortunately, film IMAX (15/70) is “only” 18k. :P
Me and Hubby just got back from Vegas visiting the Sphere....Great experience....go if you can!!!! You will not be disappointed!!!!
WOW! This feels like a time traveler from the future, giving us a glimpse of futuristic cinema experience.
That vr set up to see how it would look and it’s live is crazzzzy
So the camera that’s used to shoot is 18K and the giant sphere itself is 16K
so you’re not gonna tell us the sensor size, lens focal length, aperture, or effective field of view? thanks!
Apple Vision Pro should support these formats on AppleTV+.
Unreal.
this makes me want to go to las vegas
How many rackmount LED display drivers are being used and what is the expected lifespan of the different components in the system?
Actually those tiny LEDs have a really long lifespan because they are not OLEDs, they don't develop burn in and they can get extremely bright, like 1000 candels per square meter or more.
Wow. The Sphere is awesome.
I was in Las Vegas in August and The Sphere is weird as $π!+.
I should note that this isn't new, Vancouver, BC had a system called the 'Omnimax' back in the mid 2000's that I went to view a nature movie in. Spectacular, but this Sphere takes it to a whole new level.
I agree, in time square in NYC uses the same tech, fat large array of LEDs to make a screen. The only nice thing about the sphere is that it's shaped like a sphere, its massive and 3D spatial sound. It's like the sound directly hitting towards your face from the source.
lol, mid 2000's? Youngin', IMAX's first permanent dome installation was 1973. But trying to compare anything that has come before to this is silly. Like comparing a small satellite to the space station.
What kind of system do they use to output 16K video on a screen that massive
That must be a very good system
Shout out to the Omni theater at Boston Museum of science! Wasn't as big as this larry but was fun, I got memories back at least 30 years. The intro before the showing was great, voiced by the legendary Leonard Nimoy who "grew up a few blocks from here." Hahahaha, close your eyes and turn your head yo.
Where the musical stairs at?!?!?!?!
What about the screen on the outer side of Sphere, are those separate screens or are the pixels have both front and back sides?
I read somewhere (source evades me at the moment) that each pixel on the outside of Sphere is the size of a hockey puck. I don't remember how many of them they said there are.
It is possible, though I don't think I am, that I am incorrect.
It's a separate screen - there's a roof in between, after all. The outer screen has more 'area' because it covers the complete exterior, but it's lower resolution with larger lights.
theres a diagram at 0:23, the outside and inside display are separate
Yes they are entirely different from the ones on the inside. Here is the outside up close:
supercarblondie.com/wp-content/uploads/las-vegas-sphere-led-lights-03.jpg
and:
i.insider.com/651d7d8a2ce014759e748641?width=700
10 Reds strapped together is just a flex of money 😂
Surreal that such a place exists
Great engineering here
How long does the leds last before decaying. And does the uneven heating, uv explosure makes one localized area dimmer than others. Additionally, how often does the sphere need to be washed and dedust
Pretty the same as other led billboard I guess?
Super awesome, even the aliens go 😱
"this is how a camera with a flat lens and small sensor looks"
They really should have had their photog proof read this script...
Here's a question. Is the angle so wide that if two of the cameras were placed side by side in the same orientation, would they be able to see each other? Because there's a type of 3D glasses that use LCD shutters, and they can work on any screen with a high enough frame rate.
Amazing camera technology.
Incredible explanation! Thanks!
I still have questions about how the outside of the sphere works? Are these the same LED panels that are inside?
How does it work in case of rain, lightning and dust and dirt that accumulate over time?
Hugs from Brazil!
they use a different kind of panel outside with a significantly lower pixel density; you can google "sphere outside close up" to see it.
They aren't the same as the LED from the inside screen. The outside screen is made up of LED the size of a baseball ⚾️.
@@astefanlopez Still though .. how do they clean it?
@@THE-X-Forcethey probably don’t
@@joeygil-hz9kv Ahh .. so just like my TV then ..
Watching adult movie in this will be something tho 😂😂😂
I want to play Cyberpunk on that thing.
you would need all the quadros in the world
People hate the sphere I cannot understand why…they complain “wahhh it’s just a screen”, willfully ignorant, this is an amazing technological marvel. The ILLUSION of BEING THERE(wherever the shot being shown is) is crazy
I personally think this is the future of cinema
2:06 WHAT THIS IS INSANE
😂
Why no one ever told me Darren Aronofski looks so much like Steve Jobs? Like it’s uncanny.
we arw watching the birth of a new movie medium! i’m very excited to get something this cool while i’m alive, I missed out on Polyvision, Cinemascope, Cinerama, etc.
I started out with Black & Wh movies and remember when my parents took me to the first color movie and then
the first Cinerama a extra wide screen in vivid color and a newish theater on Lincoln Blvd just south of Santa Monica. Wow, of course, it was a Western. I loved the scenery in those movies. And there were no fleas in the
theater like the one at the beach and the three downtown S.M. (1950 ish). This looks magical.
@@lucysphotosfromar that's fascinating! I missed it because I'm only 20 years old, so it's interesting to actually find someone who witnessed Cinerama for real! I've watched cinerama but digitalised on TV, I always found it interesting how the format looks, and how it looks like 3 films stitched together (which they are). It's fascinating stuff. I can't imagine how it was to sync all the projectors together back then.
Back in the 80s we had the Planetarium
So cool.
One question? Is this the first large format digital camera?
I would really love to experience the spehere. Sadly Las Vegas is a long way away from the northern Europe.
The real question is how they seemingly solved the physical problem of lens distortions on such short notice.
If you know the dimensions of the final screen, it's not that difficult.
There really would not be any Lens distortion because the screen is a dome, on a flat screen the footage is super distorted and I’m assuming the multiple reds facing each way makes all the edge distortion go away
Christopher Nolan should see this and make movies with this camera!! Imagine watching Oppenheimer in sphere
this is just amazing! Like WOW!!! 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you for making the video.
I want that fisheye, looks like a gigantic Century Optics .3x lense
The lens reminds me of the ultra rare Nikon Fisheye. Very cool
so its just like a very large fisheye lens
They oughta make those handrails out of Plexi clear material, probably not code tho
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You are being watched; WORLD 🗺.
Great. Now just imagine. ... Avengers endgame in the screen. 🔥🔥
Great job done!!!!
Why did they have to explain pixels to us?
I love the sectional view ~30 seconds in, I think that's the first thing I've seen (having not actually been inside it yet) that really conveys the size of the thing on the inside. It's a bit TARDIS-y
Can I Skydive with this Camera?
That lens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant
That's right, it fits in the square hole.
I challenge you to make a probe lens with a wide angle to show an ants POV 🤩
That lens was made for skateboarding if anything
This looks sooooooo cool this is the only reason why I would want to go to America lol
I'm honestly surprised it's pixel density is that bad. Only 16k pixels by 16k pixels in such an enormous theater is really tiny. And then she said your iPhone has 2k by 1k and it fits in your hand. So just 16 iPhone stacked side by side would have more pixels than that the biggest screen in the world
5:17 lol good vid
The Franklin Institute did this years ago spherical screen vibrating seats immersive yeah
16K times 16K is 256 Megapixel.
incredible
Okay, but I want to know how they are able to record 18k footage.
"We are not outside" "yeah I know😒"
this documentary is really amazing, it answers all the questions inside my head about how the viral "sphere" works
Is it feasible to buy this camera to shoot weddings with when I charge an average of 3k+ per wedding?
Did bro just say “the circle fits in the square perfectly”? 😂
That’s right! The square hole!
A space walk that is actually realistic keywords "actually realistic" meaning it's not realistic but it will seem like it.
are the same LEDs in the inside of the sphere the ones we see on the outside?m Or is that a complete different setup ?
diffrerent
If you look at 0:27, you'll see that the inner screen is different from the outer. There's a noticeable gap between the two.
My friend living in las vegas says he hates this thing its like giving him freaks 😂
2:27 Why hiding the logo ? We all know it's a SONY Camera
And 0:58 are RED cameras.
Maybe the photographer just did that anyways. I have covered the branding on my cameras for a long time
@@littlehippo5004 Why not give these companies some credit ? We shouldn't be embarrassed to give some props to others for their design/Research & development effort. Even if in this context , it was more about how limited a full-frame can be.
@@Dr_Night Because they're not being paid to advertise for them.
@@Skydivingkittens it's like using a lambo in a movie and hiding the bull logo
impressive
It would be cool to point the fisheye camera at the night sky while the ISS passes, and maybe catch a meteor
imagine this tech being cheap in the future and people will go see movies in mini version of the ball.
Even better, an experience like this in your living room. Now i'd save my money from today for that to be in my house.
well i need to save money to buy a house all well though.
Its just big screen😏
Christopher Nolan...When do you plan on making a movie with this camera?
eh, 75mm imax is better in every aspect
dont show this camera to Nolan 😂
and here you all are, thinking you can see a 100 megapixel photo on your 1000 $ cellphone xD
They "one upped" Dubai !
If they shot on IMAX film they wouldn't have to worry about resolution
4:17 Imagine that led with mniled or microLED instead of normal led. will be 12K or 60K hahaha
if it had a normal pixel density (100 ppi), it would have a total of 2,304,000,000 pixels. or, a resolution of 144k by 144k
insta360 have it in pocket why you made it so dificult? just improve insta360 for high bitrate and 4K
It's really amazing to me when people with no knowledge on a subject assume that people who are experts in it don't know what they're doing and that the "simple" solution they've come up with in their head is obviously better than the way it's actually being done.
just use a insta 360 to record the footage lol
obviously i am joking but i'd love to see how an insta360 footage looks in that sphere
Only you guys 😅can make such a beautifull things. Hands of god creations
what if the dome gets struck by lightning
Nikon 6mm f/2.8
This set up was already being used for background plates for effect shots in cinematic films, nothing new here. Just fluff for the sphere 😂🎉