MSG Sphere content camera headed for International Space Station

A camera strategy being developed to supply contented for the MSG Sphere astatine The Venetian is going into space.

Representatives of the Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp., which is gathering the 17,500-seat, $1.9 cardinal amusement venue eastbound of the Venetian Expo Center, said Tuesday that the institution won a probe grant from the Center for the Advancement of Science successful Space.

The institution did not disclose the magnitude of the award.

With the award, the institution plans to behaviour 3 missions implicit the adjacent respective years to nonstop camera instrumentality to the International Space Station to trial the ultra-high-fidelity, ultra-high-resolution camera system.

MSG has indicated it would usage the camera strategy to make videos it would show connected the 160,000-square-foot surface that volition wrapper up, implicit and down the assemblage astatine a solution much than 100 times that of a high-definition tv erstwhile the venue opens successful 2023.

“We are honored that CASIS selected our probe proposal, which we judge volition not lone payment our plans for MSG Sphere, but besides enactment groundbreaking imaging of Earth and abstraction from the ISS — enhancing our corporate knowing of what’s possible,” said David Dibble, CEO of MSG Ventures.

“With MSG Sphere, we are creating an wholly caller level for immersive experiences — which requires processing our ain contented instauration tools,” helium said. “This includes camera and lens exertion susceptible of producing ultra-high-resolution images — and determination is nary amended mounting to research this precocious exertion than the awe-inspiring position of space.”

This year, CASIS sought applications for exploring however the ISS National Lab, which it manages done an statement with NASA, could beryllium utilized to beforehand technology, and, aft a competitory process, MSG Entertainment’s connection was selected.

The MSG Sphere camera probe program was submitted by the company’s MSG Ventures division, which is tasked with processing technologies to enactment contented instauration for the MSG Sphere, the archetypal large-scale venue to usage multisensory storytelling for immersive experiences.

Andrew Shulkind, MSG Ventures elder vice president of Capture and Talent Management, volition service arsenic the program’s task pb and main investigator. A erstwhile NASA astronaut, Gregory Chamitoff, who logged astir 200 days and 2 spacewalks connected 2 abstraction shuttle missions and a abstraction presumption expedition, is co-investigator, advising connected the proposal.

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