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The Sphere in Las Vegas is easily one of the coolest attractions in the city. The

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only problem is it's really expensive and also I don't live in Las Vegas.

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Fortunately, I just found out we have Spirit Home. Welcome to the dome. It was

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the brainchild of some of the folks who worked on the OG in Las Vegas, but due

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to uh budgetary constraints, they had to

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get a little creative to make their vision a reality. See, while you and I

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might share fond childhood memories of laser light show night at the

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planetarium, when this Zeiss projection system was current, we hadn't even

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landed on the moon yet. And this one in

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particular is so broken that even the platform that lifts it up into position

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is leaking hydraulic fluid. So, they've had to be a little scrappy, or at least

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as scrappy as something can be when it is packed to the gills with 4K Christy

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projectors, not to mention 20,000 watts

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of JBL surround. With that said, guys, budgets are relative, and when you

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consider how much less they had to work with here, the end result is absolutely

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stunning. And we're going to give you guys a behindthescenes tour of how it

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was all stitched together right after I stitch in this segue to our sponsor,

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is incredible. I haven't set foot in what used to be known as the Star

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Theater at the HR McMillan Space Center since I was a child watching a Charlotte

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Diamond laser show. And outwardly,

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nothing has changed. This was a real challenge for Tobias and his team at

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Volutric Camera Systems because not only

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did they have to modernize a very old

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installation, but they had to do so while it was open the whole time doing

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daytime shows. That means everything they did had to be done in bite-sized

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chunks during closing hours. Take for instance cleaning the screen. See this

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panel behind me? How it's a little bit whiter than the rest of them. Okay. Do

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you also see how the rest of the dome has these bright visible seams between

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the panels? Well, what Tobias's team discovered is that those seams aren't

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supposed to be visible. But in order to eliminate them, they have to wipe down

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the front of the panel and get around to the backside with a vacuum to remove the

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70 years of dust and crud that is built

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up in the perforations of the projection screen. Perforations that are needed to

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make the screen acoustically transparent for the carefully positioned speakers

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all around the dome. But enough yak yak about what hasn't changed. Let's take

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you somewhere where few people have ever been. The beating heart of the planet

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Arium, the server room, where this rack of Nihalum era servers runs the daytime

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shows, but has been replaced with a

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single machine hidden behind the screen

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that we are going to go find, I guess.

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Good gravy. I'm not sure quite what I expected, but

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not working light switches apparently. But you can really feel the history in

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this place. all the different eras of equipment that were in here. Like

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they've got these ancient DC power connectors that apparently act as

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triggers for the old effects projectors for the older shows. Right next to a

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random D-link switch. Here's some tubing that I assume was for a fog machine at

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some point. We've still got fog machines, but apparently we don't use

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that tube anymore. Okay, this is cool. Here's one of our

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new Christy projector. Do not bump. I

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touched it ever so lightly. >> No, no, it's fine. You can touch it. I don't care. >> Okay. Okay, cool.

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>> Coolest part of this one, though, is this is one of the small ones. They're

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using three Christy 4K projectors for their mains and three of these smaller

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ones to kind of fill in the holes because, as you guys can plainly see,

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it's a bit of an oddly shaped screen. In

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total, that gives them a 10K 10K

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resolution image. The original plan had actually been to use one of the big ones

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with the fisheye lens that you guys saw in the intro, but what they found was it

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just plain wasn't enough resolution. So, they went with this stitched together

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approach. We're going to go find one of the big projectors. But first, I wanted

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to show you guys behind the screen. How

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freaking cool is this, man? So cool. Hi,

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Adam. Something I didn't really think about before being back here is how much of

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the light gets completely wasted just

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blasting through the screen into this layer of both acoustic and

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lightabsorbing material that lines the inside of the dome. Man, there's so much

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flipping power. It's like a contractor asked, "How many outlets would you

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like?" And they were like, "Yes." Like there's 20 within my arms span here. 22.

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24. Oh, there's a power strip. There's

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there's like another 10.

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What? January 1990 that was installed.

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This a little newer. This is one of the

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big Christies. And they had to come up with, again, the theme is scrappy,

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right? An innovative solution for cooling it. They've got three of these

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550 CFM AC fans, each dedicated to one

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of the large projectors just kind of blowing out here to be taken up by the

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intake for the entire room here. And wow, it really does blow. Like, can you

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see my hair moving? Sorry, it really does suck. I mean, but it's good at it.

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Anywh who, each of these is running to a Christy D4K 2560, and these are the main

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workh horses of the setup. These are capable of 4K 60fps. They're also

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capable of 25,000 lumens of light output, which is where all the heat

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comes from. Wow, the bottom's actually quite hot, but is what makes them

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capable of projecting onto such large screens. Fun fact, these actually use

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the same model bulb as some of the local movie theaters. So, when they had a show

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emergency and needed a replacement bulb real quick, apparently the folks at the

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Scotia Bank Theater were bros and uh lent them a lamp to get them back up and

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running. Fun fact, by the way, whether it was

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intentional or not, this textured concrete that separates the cove or the

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the backstage area, as they call it, from the theater itself does an amazing

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job of blocking all of the fan noise. Check this out.

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Right. Once you're in the theater area, it's

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not disruptive at all. Neat. Also here

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in the Cove is an unassuming looking Lenovo Think Station that acts as the

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heart of their nightly shows. It uses a 12 core third gen Threadripper

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processor, 128 gigs of RAM, and probably

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most importantly, four NVIDIA Quadro P6000 GPUs with a Quadro Sync card,

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allowing them to output to 16 different

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displays and keep everything perfectly synchronized, whether they're running

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pre-rendered content or adding particle

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effects that are rendered in real time or using Unreal Engine 5 or Touch

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Designer. The plan is actually to replace the old girl with an HP

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workstation that uses NVIDIA's new A6000 GPUs, but they just haven't had the

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time. And looking around here, I definitely can see why. Oh, one last

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thing that I missed is that they're not running HDMI to all the projectors.

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They're actually using adapters so that they can run their video signals over

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category cable, or as we'd more commonly refer to it, network cable. That's it

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for downstairs. Let's go up. Apparently, this door is the fastest way to get

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there. >> No, they actually made it specially for you. It's your size. See? Authorized

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personnel only.

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>> That didn't even end up being the fastest way.

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Now, this is cool. You can see the

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entire curvature of it. You can see all the wiring. Speaker mounts.

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Woo! Man, I would not want to have to haul

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stuff up here. Like, how'd these stairs

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get up here? Never mind the stairs. What about the dual 18-in driver subwoofer

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that's under here from JBL? How did you guys get this up here?

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>> Oh, uh, we didn't. That was 15 years

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ago. Whoever did the install of that. >> Oh, okay. This was a 15 years ago

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project. >> But they just plugged it in. They didn't do any calibration. They didn't do any

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tuning. They just plugged it in and left. So, there's a lot of room for improvement.

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>> More speakers. I think we're looking at the center channel here. And no way. A

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ladder. Has anyone ever dreamed of

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climbing the planetarium screen?

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I hadn't until this day. Now I know that

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that's been my entire life's ambition. Holy crap. This is nuts. Holy crap. I am

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very high up. Does it go all the way over the top?

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>> It does. That's crazy.

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Oh, there's a speaker at the very top.

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What's that one? >> It's called a Zenith speaker.

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>> That's sick. >> Yeah, it's used for effects, used for voices. Uh, it's not part of the

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standard 5.1, but it exists. >> This is the apex of the planet Arum.

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Goodness, I am extremely high up. >> He's going somewhere where no man has

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ever gone. >> Yeah. Don't forget, if I ever fall and

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die during a video, you got to monetize my death.

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>> Oh, we already got a sponsor for your funeral. Don't worry. That was the

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coolest thing that I had no idea that I wanted to try. You guys ready to game on

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this thing? Cuz I am. To get this done,

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we brought a 5090based gaming machine from home. And Tobias

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has a way to connect that. Yeah, we're using NDI to connect over the network

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and sending the 4K ultrawide directly into the stitching computer, the Lenovo.

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>> So, you're saying the latency is not going to be great. >> We'll see if you notice it.

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>> I think I'll probably notice it. >> Yeah, he's a little whiner about that.

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>> Oh, come on now. >> Yeah, you're always like, "Oh, the latency is so bad."

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>> It's my job to whine about that. >> Whoa, buddy.

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I don't know if I'm going to care about the latency with a screen this big.

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>> What are you doing right now? This is just various skewing, stretching,

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manipulation of the image for our curved screen. >> Yeah. So, what we got here is a touch

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center template created by Andrew Hazelin. And what these are ST maps.

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These ST maps are basically distorting the image to match what is on the dome.

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And we have various different projections. We have 160°, 150°, 140°.

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We can change and stretch the screen to be whatever perspective you want. Kind

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of see what it's doing over here while it's loading. It's basically taking our

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screen and then stretching it like this >> to match the dome.

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>> I got to go try this. >> You actually had a mouse pad?

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>> Yeah. Never leave home without it. >> Literally, not a week ago, we had to get

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you a different flight cuz you left without your passport. Are you telling

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me that that that was packed? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. I had my mouse pad. You're missing the bigger picture here,

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Adam. That kind of seen. >> The big picture is prettying big, dude.

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I don't know how this works. something to do with the way it's but the way it

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almost has a 3D look to it. >> It looks like it's coming towards us though is weird.

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>> It's like a CRT bubble out. >> Yeah. >> As opposed to going into like a dome.

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>> Dude, this is incredible. >> Yeah, >> he's right. The latency is actually not

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that bad. >> Look at this.

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>> This is incredible. >> It's all the butt of the car, though. Uh

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yeah, look at how dinky you like from the right angle you're like Yeah. It's a

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little skewed. It's a little skewed. Like all the way over there. That's

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where your freaking ammo is. >> Don't worry about it. And then your

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objectives are all the way over there. Yeah, you can almost read them.

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>> I am going to be I'm going to be ill. This is This is a lot.

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>> I have gamed on some wild displays. This is new. Like theoretically, this is the

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same as just sitting closer to a smaller screen. And yet it's not.

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>> In theory, you'd think like, oh, if you put an iPad right here, it would be just

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as immersive. >> No, but your eyes can feel the

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difference because they have to focus a different at different stuff. What?

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>> It looks and it feels larger than life. Of course, this is not the kind of

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content that it's intended for. So, why don't we invite some paid friends to uh

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come and check out one of the real shows? I think that would be fun. We're all here at the dome to see Pink Floyd's

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Dark Side of the Moon. It's going to be super cool. If you're excited, say,

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see any of the shows that Tobias and his team puts on at

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>> dome vancouver.com. >> That's the one. We'll have that linked down below. Thanks so much for giving us

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this full access tour. I hope you don't get into too much trouble for me

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climbing the dome. >> We tried to stop you. >> Yeah, they did. I overpowered him.