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MSG Sphere Las Vegas, ala Star Wars
The vast MSG Sphere Las Vegas is a new style of performance venue specially created to amaze you!
(MSG Sphere Las Vegas)
The New York-based Madison Square Garden Company revealed details of the 18,000-seat, futuristic-looking facility it is developing in partnership with Las Vegas Sands, which operates two casino-resorts on the Las Vegas Strip adjacent to the planned arena.The MSG Sphere Las Vegas, where a massive exterior LED will be capable of making it appear as if is transforming into a globe or a tennis ball or project the event happening inside, is expected to open on New Year’s Eve 2020.
“Just sitting there, what would it take to convince you that instead of sitting here in an airplane hangar in Las Vegas, you are sitting in your chair in the polar ice cap or an Amazon rainforest?” said Jim Dolan, executive chairman and CEO of Madison Square Garden Company. “Obviously if you are in the polar ice cap, you have to feel cold; you have to see the glacier. That is essentially what we are building: an attempt to convince you that you are somewhere else.”
The 170,000-square-foot LED screen will wrap around its interior bowl. The average movie theater screen is 1,000 square feet and an IMAX screen is about 4,000 square feet.
It will also have an adaptive acoustics system that will enable audio to be directed to specific locations at a near-constant volume. Patrons will be able to smell different scents and feel certain movements, depending on the experience.
Star Wars fans have no trouble recognizing venues like the Galaxies Opera House on Coruscant:
(Galaxies Opera House from Star Wars)
Fans of Samuel R. Delany might feel that they are catching a glimpse of the antigravity globe arena from his Nebula award-winning 1966 novel Babel-17:
Rydra looked up. "Let's watch the wrestling." Along the counter people raised their heads. At the tables, patrons released the catch in their chair arms so that the backs swung to half recline.Calli's mug clinked on the counter, and Ron raised both feet to the stool and leaned back against the bar.
"What are they looking at?" the Customs Officer asked. "Where's everybody—" Rydra put her hand on the back of his neck and did something so that he laughed and swung his head up. Then he sucked a great breath and let it out slowly.
The smoky globe, hung in the vault, was shot with colored light. The room had gone dim. Thousands of watts of floodlights struck the plastic surface and gleamed on the faces below as smoke in the bright sphere faded.
"What's going to happen?" the Customs Officer asked. "Is that where they wrestle . . . ?"
Rydra brushed her hand over his mouth and he nearly swallowed his tongue: but was quiet.
And the Silver Dragon came, wings working in the smoke, silver feathers like clashed blades, scales on the grand haunches shaking; she rippled her ten-foot body and squirmed in the antigravity field, green lips leering, silver lids batting over green orbs,. "It's a woman!" breathed the Customs Officer.
Via APNews.
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