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The Sphere

Las Vegas’ $2.3 billion immersive flagship takes a distressingly prophetic look inward.

They looked good but didn’t really showcase the Sphere’s strengths as a wraparound display, since it’s easier to fool depth perception with a clear blue sky versus a detailed interior. The other immersive experiences I had there were individually impressive – Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart, Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms, even ARTE’s Las Vegas teamLab ripoff – but the effect of being shuttled from one dark structure to another in airtight taxi pods left me queasy. Over the next century, panoramas spawned all manner of visual experiments and entertainments, and Walter Benjamin would later describe the genre of panoramic literature, characterised by detailed examinations of every strata of urban life:

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