The world’s most powerful camera sensor is used for one purpose: powering the Las Vegas Sphere with 316 million pixels at 120 frames per second

The Sphere is a brand new, spherical entertainment venue in Las Vegas that hosts shows, concerts and other events.

The 580,000 square foot exterior is covered with 1.2 million fully programmable LED pucks spaced 8 inches apart. Each of the pucks contains 48 individual LED diodes, with each diode capable of displaying 256 million different colors, creating stunning, dynamic 360-degree image displays. However, the inside is just as impressive and features the world’s largest high-resolution LED screen that wraps around the audience, creating a completely immersive visual environment. It covers 160,000 square meters and features a 16K x 16K resolution.

Sphere Studios, the immersive content studio dedicated to “creating multi-sensory live entertainment experiences” for the venue, has joined forces with semiconductor giant STMicroelectronics to develop the Big Sky, an ultra-high resolution camera system with the largest image sensor ever created.

Large aerial camera

(Image credit: Sphere Entertainment)

18K sensor