It’s a lot better looking at night but nevertheless, this is a live streaming webcam focused on The Sphere in Las Vegas. Or, I should say, it’s a link to that webcam. I’m still trying to process the actual size of this other-worldly structure. It has a seating capacity of 18,600, or 20,000 standing. And 10,000 of the seats employ haptic technology.
This is the weekend my son and daughter-in-law are there for the U2 concert (Achtung Baby tour). (Hope they had some of those haptic seats.) I can’t even imagine what the experience must have been like.
I just watched a monorail cruise by on that track in front of the Sphere. Surreal. Especially for an aging former Okie who’s traveled very little and has never been to Vegas. And there was a brief, creepy display that looked like shadowy humans trapped inside the Sphere trying to get out.
Currently I’m sitting here looking out at an overcast 28° day, expecting the season’s first snow any minute, while it’s a perfect 70° in Vegas. And The Son is debating whether to try to get home tomorrow, as scheduled, despite our winter storm warning, or stay another day in Vegas. Decisions, decisions …
HAPTIC technology ? – the seats feel good in the hand ? I don’t get it. And to be brutal, I don’t get the sight of a silly little dot face moving ’round. All that money gone into this ??
Why not some kind of real image ? – birds or something ? [grumble grumble ..]
Dang, I tried three times to reply here while using my phone and none of them worked! What I tried to say was that with tech stuff, for me, haptic has always meant vibrates. But I guess the writers think “haptic” sounds more high tech. As for the displays, I posted some pictures several weeks ago. You liked the moon. I hated the eyeball.
How ’bout a whale? I caught one for you this evening (see above).
I do like the whale, Colorado ! More whales, more moons, and I’ll stop whingeing.