Get the latest tech news

Omnimax

>>> 2025-06-08 Omnimax (PDF) In a previous life, I worked for a location-based entertainment company, part of a huge team of people developing a location for Las Vegas, Nevada. It was COVID, a rough time for location-based anything, and things were delayed more than usual.

Coworkers paid a lot of attention to another upcoming Las Vegas attraction, one with a vastly larger budget but still struggling to make schedule: the MSG (Madison Square Garden) Sphere. It is a "near" hemisphere because the lower section is truncated to allow a flat floor, which serves as a stage for events but is also a practical architectural decision to avoid completely unsalable front rows. Unfortunately, this has proven very difficult: the fact that most of them were distributed only to science museums means that they are very spottily remembered, and besides, so many of the films that ran in Omnimax theaters were converted from IMAX presentations that it's hard to tell the two apart.

Get the Android app