BURBANK, Calif. — While not as imposing as its bigger cousin on the Las Vegas Strip, Big Dome makes quite an impression in this office park near Hollywood Burbank Airport.
The 28,000-square-foot, 100-foot-high custom geodesic dome is a quarter of the size of the MSG Sphere at The Venetian and has a scaled-down version of the Sphere’s nearly 4-acre wraparound high-resolution LED screen.
Unlike the Las Vegas Sphere where there are 17,600 seats and enough standing room for a crowd of 20,000, Big Dome has just a few rows of normal theater seats plopped atop a two-story platform. That’s good enough for Sphere Studio crews to preview the creative content they hope will dazzle Las Vegas audiences when the $2.3 billion Sphere opens its doors in the fall.
