A Las Vegas-style Sphere is coming to the United Arab Emirates. Can’t believe it? We don’t blame you but this is no drill. It’s real.
The music and entertainment arena, which is an 18,000-seat iconic Vegas Sphere, its exterior completely covered in LED screens that turn into different colours, even flash up QR codes, and occasionally transform it into a giant emoji face, leering over the Las Vegas strip. The interior of the concert hall is completely covered in LED screens, too. They stretch out far above the band and over the audience’s heads, the better to provide a sequence of genuinely astonishing visual effects.
Now, MGM, the creator behind the original dome has promised to bring the ace structure to The Island, an equivalent of a Las Vegas-style hub in Dubai that will feature an MGM Grand, a Bellagio, an Aria, and in the center of it all: the Dubai Sphere. Although the Middle Eastern version of the Las Vegas knock-off will not be as large as the original one, it is reported to consist of a capacity of 300 seats. However, it will contain a mini showroom that will walk you through the history of Dubai in all its visual glory that one expects inside this world-famous structure.
A post shared by Lovin Dubai | لوڤن دبي (@lovindubai) MGM Resorts’ CEO and President, Bill Hornbuckle, explained at the Skift Global Forum, “There will be three properties sitting on a large podium and in the middle of it is a sphere. Not as big as the sphere in Las Vegas by any s.