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August 17, 2024 AT 4:00 pm

Behind the Screens: Hardware Behind the Las Vegas Sphere

The Las Vegas Sphere is powered by approximately 150 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs. Blog post from Nividia:

Sphere Studios creates video content in its Burbank, Calif., facility, then transfers it digitally to Sphere in Las Vegas. The content is then streamed in real time to rack-mounted workstations equipped with NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs, achieving unprecedented performance capable of delivering three layers of 16K resolution at 60 frames per second.

The NVIDIA Rivermax software helps provide media streaming acceleration, enabling direct data transfers to and from the GPU. Combined, the software and hardware acceleration eliminates jitter and optimizes latency.

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And a rundown of the hardware from ZachsTechTurf:

Some spherical projects from the Adafaruit Learning System:

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