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Las Vegas Sphere Opens Ticket Sales for Immersive Wizard of Oz Experience

It uses AI to expand the film to the Sphere’s 16K, 160,000-square-foot screen with haptic seats alongside sensory effects to immerse audiences in Oz.

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Overview

  • Tickets for The Wizard of Oz at Sphere went on sale June 10 with prices starting at $104 through thesphere.com.
  • The immersive show launches August 28 and will run multiple times daily inside the Sphere’s 160,000-square-foot, 16K-resolution dome.
  • AI-trained models expand the original 4:3 film frame to fill the screen by reconstructing missing elements such as Dorothy’s limbs.
  • Haptic seats, directional sound, wind, scents, and a remastered soundtrack recorded by an 80-piece orchestra will simulate the tornado, poppies, and other iconic moments.
  • The production brings together Sphere Studios, Warner Bros. Discovery, Google, and Magnopus with Jane Rosenthal among the lead producers.