How Google AI Helped Bring The Wizard of Oz Into the 21st Century

The Wizard of Oz is back in a modern reimagining at the Sphere in Las Vegas

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Variety's Chris Willman for his thoughts about the experience of seeing "The Wizard of Oz" at the Las Vegas Sphere.

Immersive AI-enhanced version of classic film The Wizard Of Oz debuts in Las Vegas

The reworking of the 1939 movie is seen as a potential watershed moment in Hollywood’s use of AI tools. Read more at straitstimes.com.

How New Sphere Show Alters ‘The Wizard of Oz’ — and Aims to Bring the Classic to Life

"The Wizard of Oz" is playing at Las Vegas' Sphere with several notable changes to the film.

How Google AI helped bring The Wizard of Oz into the 21st century

In one dramatic scene of The Wizard of Oz at Sphere that just opened off the Las Vegas Strip, the audience finds themselves in the swirling tornado that rips Dorothy’s Kansas farmhouse off its moorings and hurtles it onto Munchkinland. The 1939 screen classic has been enhanced to fill a 160,000 sq ft (14,860 square metre) wall of LED panels that spans three football fields, encircling the audience and reaching 22 storeys high, as 560 kilowatt fa…

How Do You Make ‘Wizard Of Oz’ Work At The Sphere? We Had To See For Ourselves.

The Las Vegas venue puts a high-tech spin on Dorothy’s tale. “If you do it right, it feels like reality. It’s not cinema,” a visual effects supervisor says.