The entertainment venue of the future has arrived.
On September 29th, the iconic Irish rock band U2 played the debut concert of not a new theater, concert hall, or stadium – but a sphere.
After five years of planning and construction after the Madison Square Garden Company’s initial announcement, the ground-breaking and mind-boggling Sphere officially opened in Las Vegas, and people are losing their minds over it.
This $2.3 billion dollar, 336 foot tall, 516 foot wide building is now the largest spherical building in the world. Seating – which wraps around two-thirds of the sphere, holds 18,600 people with 20,000 including standing room, giving it the capacity of a large indoor arena.
It has nine total levels including an 80,000 square foot basement with a VIP club, there’s 23 private suites, and the interior dons a 16K resolution wraparound LED screen which is 160,000 square feet in total size, making it the largest and highest-resolution LED screen in the world. The exterior of the Sphere has 580,000 square feet of LED display.
The building also contains a spacial audio system with speakers installed behind the LED panels (a total of 167,000 of them to be exact), and can also deliver sound through the floor boards, and enables 4D features such as scent and wind.
To make a long story short – this place is nuts and the pandemonium is warranted.
With fan videos going around on Twitter, TikTok, and other social medias of the U2 concert – in all honesty, you need to see it to believe it, because words can’t do it justice.
Immersive, mind-blowing, and insane are all words used to describe the power and potential of the experience that is the Sphere – and the best seats in the house for the debut concert were only ranging from $400 – $500, paling in comparison to the outrageous prices of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.
Futuristic is an understatement – who would you like to see at the Sphere?