I want to watch the Star Wars movies in this....probably would looked a bit warped, due to the domed shape, but just to hear the movies alone would be spectacular.
I think it would be great for movies as long as they are adapted for it, might take a while for that to happen as they have their own cameras to record quality videos for the screen size and resolution
@@beyondengineering I can imagine they would have to run each film through a process, upscaling it. I suppose any film, from its native rectangle aspect ratio (and depending on which type used) still couldn't fill the whole entire dome. As much as possible anyways. Some film makers might not want their film to be distorted on a screen like that though. Guess we'll see.
How many graphics card does the new Las Vegas sphere use to run those huge led displays ? Just wondering how many graphics cards are required to run that huge display, what graphics card and how many of them are used ? What cpu used too ?
I have always thought of a speaker as something that vibrates to a frequency and produces sound. Especially when we breadboard and create a basic circuit. Holoplot call their speakers, modules. Call it driver, speaker, etc. it’s fine
@@beyondengineering I've built thousands of speakers, sometimes called cabinets. Holoplot like giving stuff that's been around a while fancy new names. Manufacturers like B&C, 18Sound, Eminence, etc sell drivers, ask them for speakers and some might point you to the page on their homepage where they share some basic designs for the DIY enthusiasts.
@tigersharkzh is correct, A speaker is the entire sound reproduction tool's housing with all components present. We don't call the magnetic driver a speaker in speaker design and engineering. And we don't call the driver's attached cone a speaker, its called a woofer or cone because it doesn't do anything but react to the magnet that reacts to electrical pules fed to the magnet from its source. Almost every speaker can be a modular thing as well, like every Line Array system is a modular speaker system. Every point source system is technically modular depending how it is set up. There are 167k drivers, driving 167k woofers that together create how ever many speaker cabinets that are put together to create their modular system. They aren't doing anything that hasn't been done before. Controlling sound with "beam arrays" is the exact same technology that a Line Array system were originally designed to do. I have been to the Sphere and I have worked with Haloplot systems in different environments and I can confidently say there is absolutely nothing special or new about this technology, it is just a different tool for a different way to approach the exact same task (how to reproduce the source signal). The Sphere is a visual marvel but sonically there isn't anything new about what is being done other than trying to make a horrible acoustic space not sound horrible with no acoustic reinforcement. The sphere's designers and architects just didn't want a giant speaker array to be visual. Because there are screens everywhere and that is the actual focus of the space. The only reason Haloplot was awarded the bid for this install is because their system can be separated from the audience and hidden behind the screens to force the audience to focus on the visual aspects of the space. I have been in hifi listening bars in Tokyo with better sound quality than the Sphere. I will give the venue its props in the over all experience being a positive one, but it does frustrate me when people think that the Sphere has "the most advanced never before seen audio system that will never be matched" level of praise. When that is one of the farthest claims from the truth.
This technology must exist as a military sound beaming weapon possibly from satellites. How would the abuser target the victim accurately the sound? Does an attack with sound constitute G.B.H.?
probably not, given sound wouldn't travel through vacuum and you would need way too much power to not be able to do any damage at all even if done through a weather balloon for example. Much better to just scream at someone
I'm not totally buying the comments here on audio. Beam forming is great...but this guys comments assume the audio will go right into the listeners ear and nowhere else. If you start pushing SPL its going to bounce around the space. You cant change physics!
I'm not in disagreement with you and as someone who's built and owned many home theaters I'm extremely curious to go here myself and will soon. That being said earlier reports coming in and several from audiophiles say it's truly amazing in its sound and have very high praise.
That's right and although i've never been there before (and probably never will) i guess there was some clever work done with phase-cancellation and precise delays etc.
Have you been there? I can’t believe the comments and even this video due to no one being there. I was there opening night for the U2 concert. I’ll just say it was the best concert I’ve experienced in 40 years.
The ability to “steer” the beam is also dependent on the frequency of the source material. The lower the frequency, the less you can “steer” it with WFS. So it is *extremely* dependent on the audio material that you create, and how you utilize the spatial capabilities of the audio system. As you said, “you can’t change physics.”
I am severely hearing impaired and attended last night. System is a bust. Used internal loop and both narriaters were muffled and very hard to understand.
@@beyondengineering I realize this was 6 months ago but I can answer this. The loop he was referring to is in reference to his hearing aids. There are hearing aids with a technology called T-coil. With T-coil hearing aids, the user can receive the venue's audio directly into their hearing aids via a "loop" transmitter that is usually installed in the floor. Perhaps the loop system at the Sphere was not functioning properly but it has little to do with the performance of the primary sound system.
What flaws? I bet you weren’t even there, because your MOM wouldn’t let you……… 😂 I didn’t see any and I was at the first U2 concert there in September. I’d say FLAWLESS - moron. 😮
I was so disappointed with the sound it seams like this technology doesn't work in live music in large scale format. I was able to walk and listen in different places and it sounds bad. there is no highs at all, it sounds like there is low pass filter with 6dB per octave from about 3-4k. The low end muddy and not focused. If you standing under the balcony the only thing you able to listen it is just one box which sound like there is L + R plus mono summation of left and right and it's all playing from one source and also it sounds like high frequency drivers not working at all. When you stand on the edge of the balcony where you should be able to hear all the immersive sound yes it is sound wider but again there is no highs. And it is not focused and not punchy sound. So please tell me as sound engineer I know how physics of sound works, but 1. how you able to through highs with just open 1" drivers without any wave guide or horn or any other thing. I understand that you can create coverage with dsp processing and delays, but how you compensate the distance? We know that as sound travels it lost energy but it also depends on frequency (highs lost energy faster) how they compensate that? 2. All engineers knows that if you have two sound sources apart from each other more than 2/3 of the wave length and play same signal from it, it will give you interference. That X1 systems have many 1" drivers and they placed in about 5-6 sm apart from each other. So for example wave length of 10 kilohertz will be just about 3,4 sm it means that if you play same signal through these X1 system it will give you interference from 5-6k and above unless you shape the sound with some wave guide and give it directional so it will not cross each other much.
Great video thanks 👍
I want to watch the Star Wars movies in this....probably would looked a bit warped, due to the domed shape, but just to hear the movies alone would be spectacular.
I think it would be great for movies as long as they are adapted for it, might take a while for that to happen as they have their own cameras to record quality videos for the screen size and resolution
@@beyondengineering I can imagine they would have to run each film through a process, upscaling it. I suppose any film, from its native rectangle aspect ratio (and depending on which type used) still couldn't fill the whole entire dome. As much as possible anyways. Some film makers might not want their film to be distorted on a screen like that though. Guess we'll see.
Been there. Last week for U2. Was incredible.
Lucky!
How many graphics card does the new Las Vegas sphere use to run those huge led displays ?
Just wondering how many graphics cards are required to run that huge display, what graphics card and how many of them are used ? What cpu used too ?
Ha, it’s not that simple. These are top level uncompressed video playback systems. I can’t imagine how many they used for this
So what exactly are the things you would like to know?
Waiting for imorts
impressive
🔥
167'000 drivers, not speakers. There's a big difference considering how many very small drivers are in a single Holoplot speaker.
I have always thought of a speaker as something that vibrates to a frequency and produces sound. Especially when we breadboard and create a basic circuit.
Holoplot call their speakers, modules. Call it driver, speaker, etc. it’s fine
@@beyondengineering I've built thousands of speakers, sometimes called cabinets. Holoplot like giving stuff that's been around a while fancy new names. Manufacturers like B&C, 18Sound, Eminence, etc sell drivers, ask them for speakers and some might point you to the page on their homepage where they share some basic designs for the DIY enthusiasts.
@tigersharkzh is correct, A speaker is the entire sound reproduction tool's housing with all components present. We don't call the magnetic driver a speaker in speaker design and engineering. And we don't call the driver's attached cone a speaker, its called a woofer or cone because it doesn't do anything but react to the magnet that reacts to electrical pules fed to the magnet from its source. Almost every speaker can be a modular thing as well, like every Line Array system is a modular speaker system. Every point source system is technically modular depending how it is set up. There are 167k drivers, driving 167k woofers that together create how ever many speaker cabinets that are put together to create their modular system. They aren't doing anything that hasn't been done before. Controlling sound with "beam arrays" is the exact same technology that a Line Array system were originally designed to do.
I have been to the Sphere and I have worked with Haloplot systems in different environments and I can confidently say there is absolutely nothing special or new about this technology, it is just a different tool for a different way to approach the exact same task (how to reproduce the source signal). The Sphere is a visual marvel but sonically there isn't anything new about what is being done other than trying to make a horrible acoustic space not sound horrible with no acoustic reinforcement. The sphere's designers and architects just didn't want a giant speaker array to be visual. Because there are screens everywhere and that is the actual focus of the space. The only reason Haloplot was awarded the bid for this install is because their system can be separated from the audience and hidden behind the screens to force the audience to focus on the visual aspects of the space. I have been in hifi listening bars in Tokyo with better sound quality than the Sphere. I will give the venue its props in the over all experience being a positive one, but it does frustrate me when people think that the Sphere has "the most advanced never before seen audio system that will never be matched" level of praise. When that is one of the farthest claims from the truth.
This technology must exist as a military sound beaming weapon possibly from satellites. How would the abuser target the victim accurately the sound? Does an attack with sound constitute G.B.H.?
probably not, given sound wouldn't travel through vacuum and you would need way too much power to not be able to do any damage at all even if done through a weather balloon for example. Much better to just scream at someone
I'm not totally buying the comments here on audio. Beam forming is great...but this guys comments assume the audio will go right into the listeners ear and nowhere else. If you start pushing SPL its going to bounce around the space. You cant change physics!
I'm not in disagreement with you and as someone who's built and owned many home theaters I'm extremely curious to go here myself and will soon. That being said earlier reports coming in and several from audiophiles say it's truly amazing in its sound and have very high praise.
That's right and although i've never been there before (and probably never will) i guess there was some clever work done with phase-cancellation and precise delays etc.
Have you been there? I can’t believe the comments and even this video due to no one being there.
I was there opening night for the U2 concert. I’ll just say it was the best concert I’ve experienced in 40 years.
@@jasonthemason1971 I'm going in December, unfortunately not for a concert but I'll be watching Postcard from Earth. I can't wait!
The ability to “steer” the beam is also dependent on the frequency of the source material. The lower the frequency, the less you can “steer” it with WFS. So it is *extremely* dependent on the audio material that you create, and how you utilize the spatial capabilities of the audio system. As you said, “you can’t change physics.”
12 meter high? Hmmm..
so it could be built cheaper without the outside led's
Run a lot cheaper too but then there would be no ad revenue
Can you play COD on it?
I reckon E sports will be a big hit here
Does it run DOOM?
It would be a shame if it didn’t
I am severely hearing impaired and attended last night. System is a bust. Used internal loop and both narriaters were muffled and very hard to understand.
Internal loop?
@@beyondengineering I realize this was 6 months ago but I can answer this. The loop he was referring to is in reference to his hearing aids. There are hearing aids with a technology called T-coil. With T-coil hearing aids, the user can receive the venue's audio directly into their hearing aids via a "loop" transmitter that is usually installed in the floor. Perhaps the loop system at the Sphere was not functioning properly but it has little to do with the performance of the primary sound system.
I pressed X for doubt. Already U2 concert was shiet, Looks like the system is fundamendaly flawed.
Can you explain what the flaw was? What wasn’t good? I was really hyped for this
Lol, audio experts disagree.
What flaws? I bet you weren’t even there, because your MOM wouldn’t let you……… 😂
I didn’t see any and I was at the first U2 concert there in September.
I’d say FLAWLESS - moron. 😮
@@beyondengineeringthis idiot is 100% wrong. I was there opening night. FLAWLESS !!!!!
This thing doesn’t work for live music. It sounds horrible with U2
That's cause it's u2
This is not good and not what I anticipated. What’s the point then?
I was so disappointed with the sound it seams like this technology doesn't work in live music in large scale format. I was able to walk and listen in different places and it sounds bad. there is no highs at all, it sounds like there is low pass filter with 6dB per octave from about 3-4k. The low end muddy and not focused. If you standing under the balcony the only thing you able to listen it is just one box which sound like there is L + R plus mono summation of left and right and it's all playing from one source and also it sounds like high frequency drivers not working at all. When you stand on the edge of the balcony where you should be able to hear all the immersive sound yes it is sound wider but again there is no highs. And it is not focused and not punchy sound.
So please tell me as sound engineer I know how physics of sound works, but
1. how you able to through highs with just open 1" drivers without any wave guide or horn or any other thing. I understand that you can create coverage with dsp processing and delays, but how you compensate the distance? We know that as sound travels it lost energy but it also depends on frequency (highs lost energy faster) how they compensate that?
2. All engineers knows that if you have two sound sources apart from each other more than 2/3 of the wave length and play same signal from it, it will give you interference. That X1 systems have many 1" drivers and they placed in about 5-6 sm apart from each other. So for example wave length of 10 kilohertz will be just about 3,4 sm it means that if you play same signal through these X1 system it will give you interference from 5-6k and above unless you shape the sound with some wave guide and give it directional so it will not cross each other much.
Depends on location. Didn't sound great in 303 but on the GA Floor it sounded really good.