An immersive version of The Wizard of Oz is coming to the Las Vegas Sphere

Sphere Entertainment has announced 2 caller immersive experiences coming to its 516-foot wide spherical venue successful Las Vegas. An enhanced mentation of The Wizard of Oz volition premiere connected the Sphere’s 160,000 quadrate ft screen connected August 28th, 2025, portion a caller movie by Academy Award-winning directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) featuring climber Alex Honnold and different elite athletes is scheduled for 2026.

For The Wizard of Oz, Sphere Entertainment is collaborating with Warner Bros. Discovery, Google, and Magnopus – a workplace who has antecedently created immersive experiences for Disney, Sony, and NASA. “Sphere volition usage cutting-edge technologies to heighten the archetypal film,” according to the company. “The Wizard of Oz astatine Sphere volition support the integrity of the archetypal portion pushing the boundaries of Sphere’s experiential medium.”

Although The Wizard of Oz received a 4K HDR restoration successful 2020, the Sphere’s surface has a overmuch higher solution of 16,000 pixels by 16,000 pixels. The venue besides offers multi-sensory experiences done dependable and haptics and tin recreate biology elements similar heat, wind, and scents, but details connected what the immersive mentation of The Wizard of Oz volition see haven’t been revealed yet.

From The Edge volition diagnostic utmost sports and 5 premier athletes – stone climber Alex Honnold, escaped diver Alenka Artnik, skier Markus Eder, surfer Kai Lenny, and BASE jumper Katie Hansen Lajeunesse – and is presently filming successful locations including Jordan, Dubai, Switzerland, the Bahamas, Austin, Las Vegas, and Maui.

Both productions are coming from Sphere Studios, the company’s Burbank-based accumulation workplace that launched astir 2 years agone and developed Sphere Entertainment’s Big Sky ultra-high-resolution camera strategy that’s presently being utilized to seizure footage for From The Edge.