It’s not easy to move the needle in a city that boasts the Bellagio’s dancing fountains, a half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, the second-tallest observation tower in the Western Hemisphere and a beam of light that can be seen for hundreds of miles.īut Sphere is inspiring rapturous reactions from those who have seen it. It was fully illuminated for the first time Tuesday night to celebrate the Fourth of July. And its exterior is fitted with 1.2 million hockey puck-sized LEDs that can be programmed to flash dynamic imagery on a massive scale – again, reportedly the world’s largest. Its bowl-shaped theater reportedly contains the world’s highest-resolution wraparound LED screen.
At 366 feet tall and 516 feet wide, it’s being billed as the world’s largest spherical structure. But anticipation is growing.Ĭue the superlatives.
The MSG Sphere won’t open to the public for almost three more months, when U2 christens the entertainment venue with a series of concerts. It squats on the Las Vegas skyline like an enormous spaceship, black and mysterious – until night falls, when it will glow like the Earth from space.
