Jack Haley (1898 – 1979) as the Man of the Tin, Bert Lahr (1895 – 1967) as Lion Cowardly, Judy Garland (1922 – 1969) as Dorothy, Ray Bolger (1904 – 1987) as The Scarecrow and Frank Morgan (1890 – 1949) as the Doorman to the Emerald City in the The Wizard of Oz ', 1939.
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He Las Vegas sphere Soon he will project “The Wizard of Oz” of 1939 in the first cinematographic experience of the place of the immersive event.
The project places the spectators inside the OZ world using the 160,000 square feet envelope of the sphere. The film will be reproduced in a 16K resolution with full space audio using 167,000 speakers and haptic seats, according to a June press release.
In association with Google Cloud, the engineers used “outpainting” of AI to expand the original films frames to adapt to immersive space, according to a April press release.
“Our standard in this was not to modify the film at all, but to try to take you as if you were in the studio when it was filmed,” said James Dolan, Sphere Entertainment CEO, to CBS Sunday Morning.
Glenn Derry, Executive Vice President of MSG Ventures and visual effects artist, is in charge of the 4D effects, such as movement, wind, water and aroma, so that the public sits as if they were in OZ, CBS reported. Derry told CBS Sunday Morning that his team used technology to bring fog and wind effects to imitate tornadoes that are seen in the movie.
The experience of “The Wizard of Oz” opens to the public on August 28.
The Las Vegas sphere opened in September 2023 and has a capacity of approximately 20,000. Around 10,000 of the seats in the sand have haptic technology, according to Sphere Entertainment. The place has caught the attention since its opening for impressive live concerts and unique images.
