evidence: Here’s Why The Sphere in Las Vegas Has Everybody Talking (And Gawking) It’s the biggest news in the city of Las Vegas and the most eye-popping addition to the skyline in ... well, maybe ever. The Sphere (once known the MSG Sphere) is a concert-venue-slash-video-screen-slash-multimedia- experience that is capturing imaginations and international headlines and once again solidifying Vegas’ reputation as the "Entertainment Capital of the World." [...] But more than just a beacon, the Sphere is a true state-of-the-art multimedia experience, featuring proprietary video technology created at a one-quarter scale model of the venue in Burbank. The surface of the Sphere is easily the largest video screen in the world: 580,000 square feet of surface area comprise the skin - that can show just about anything (from the planet Earth to an outsize emoji) in 16k resolution.