#VEGASREPORT: Inside the Sphere withU-2 and a wowed audience. Jeff Bliss
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is Pacific Watch. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the Friends of History Debating Society. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm John Batche,. Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. Vegas Report back |
| 0:26.2 | from his epic journey into the sphere, his new big friend. |
| 0:33.0 | Jeff, you're at the sphere, you're outside the sphere, |
| 0:36.0 | you got this big friend smiling at you, |
| 0:37.9 | but you went inside the sphere. |
| 0:39.4 | For what and what was it like? |
| 0:41.1 | Good evening to you, Jeff. Me evening, John. We went to the sphere in Vegas to see you two, the rock group |
| 0:48.1 | U2 and they had been doing a 40 show residency there. They're the first group to play in this venue that's a massive theater for lack a better explanation and we're a long time you two fans and the opportunity to see them in this venue was too enticing to pass up. |
| 1:04.6 | I actually, I thought, I'd seen them so many times, I'd need to go, but I'd heard back from |
| 1:09.2 | so many people who've gone to the previous shows, they said it's an experience like no |
| 1:12.4 | other, and I'll tell you what |
| 1:14.1 | they were not they were not lying this was an amazing experience you you sit inside |
| 1:20.4 | which essentially like a globe or a giant golf ball. I mean this thing is |
| 1:24.1 | is about you know 360, 370 feet tall and about 500 feet wide holds about 18,000 or so people. So it's a very inside most part it's very steeply |
| 1:37.3 | raped, you know, audience seating area. But it doesn't feel like you're just crowded on top of each other. It's very clean, very modern. And they do this projection on the walls. It allows the wall to become part of the show or become the show. |
| 1:53.9 | And so you have, you know, wrap around LED screens, |
| 1:58.3 | you have, you know, speakers with beamforming |
| 2:01.1 | and wave field synthesis, |
| 2:02.6 | which changes the way we listen to things. |
| 2:05.8 | They have haptics in the seating. |
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