The largest sphere on Earth
• 160,000 square feet of 16K-resolution surround screen
• 167,000 speakers for acoustic beamforming
• $2.3 billion to construct
Gen brought me for my birthday. Nostalgia: the very first concert tickets I ever purchased were for U2... 40 years ago! I somehow expected they would look the same today :)
From the video clip, we gathered in a cement structure propping up a Pantheon dome overhead, replete with digital doves. The Edge brought the walls down with his opening riff to Zoo Station. Even Better Than the Real Thing was self-referential, with a frenetic Vegas strip simulation dripping down from above; the images are Gen-AI renderings of Elvis, descending into the church of Vegas. Then the Sphere became transparent, looking out onto Vegas as if there were no walls (but it was a sim; I could tell it had looping traffic). The buildings were deconstructed by construction cranes to the original desertscape, and the encore felt like a sunrise set at Burning Man. Where the Streets Have No Name seemed apropos. And Beautiful Day was joyful, an ultra-realistic animation of native Nevada wildlife, like a tableau splashed across the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. A beautiful birth day indeed!
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