Is the Las Vegas Sphere Worth It?

I am so excited for The Sphere 50 years in the future when the panels aren't getting replaced in a reasonable enough time, and it's a horrible, broken monstrosity.

As a nevada resident I'd like to point out the fact the same county in Vegas declared a financial emergency stating they couldn't house all of the kids in the city without homes to the point they had to rely on hotel rooms in casinos the exact same week this massive eyesore was unveiled. It was the most dystopian news day for me.

It reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where the characters are surrounded by screens in their bedrooms and if they look away there's a blaring alarm telling them they need to look back up at the screens

The artificial canal opera singer thing looked so awkward for the couple. You’re essentially being paddled down a swimming pool that runs through a mall while a loud guy sings and everyone stares at you.

Incredible that Eddy was crazy enough to go to every single Vegas Sphere in the country

Cyberpunk 2077 being advertised on a giant advertising sphere that can be seen for miles is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen

No way that glitchy ass video is actually one of the clips they put on the sphere. That could genuinely kill someone oh my god. I guess no one with epilepsy is allowed to live in Vegas now

The idea of grandparents sending their young grandchildren videos of uncanney-valley-terminator wishing them good sleep is deeply funny to me.

eddy is definitely in his “gets lost in some capitalist monstrosity” era. he’s stared in the soul of the rainforest cafe, jimmy buffet, and now the vegas sphere

It’s wild to me that they mentioned climate change in their ads considering the amount of CO2 this thing emits and the amount of money they spent on it

I hate the outside visuals so much. If it was just a big spherical venue like the one in Burbank, that would be really sick and interesting. The outside is the biggest dystopian ick. The light pollution, the adds, the fact that it obstructs so much of the skyline with adds that constantly change is all so icky

2:44 The sheer irony of a Cyberpunk ad being played on the sphere

i am cosmically terrified of the sphere. it evokes a fear in me that i assume can only compare to people gazing upon eldritch beasts and losing their minds

as someone who was born and raised here, there are so many aspects to this. when people think “Vegas” they only think of the strip and the entertainment/gambling scene. what they don’t know about is the severely underfunded schools and crippling gentrification of the northern suburbs. nevada is ranked in the bottom five states in education, not even mentioning the increasingly apparent acts of gun violence. and no one does anything. so yes, the sphere is dystopian and the strip is a big billboard, but the cost of that isn’t just paid by the companies buying ads. the community suffers the most. this city feels like a city trying to be a city. people in power don’t care about locals and i wish there was more light brought to this. this video was awesome eddy thank you

That editing to Moonlight Sonata at the end was en pointe. I didn't notice the first time I watched this, but the music starts way earlier than I thought. That must have taken some work.

I really like the way this channel does ads, even though I despise ads. The time at the bottom is very nice and I'm much more tolerant of the interruption knowing it's justifying two unwanted U2 tickets.

"we were so blinded, that we didn't want to see any light but our own" said by a big giant sphere of lights. I absolutely love the irony and am saddened by it.

What makes the Sphere feel more dystopian is where it's located. I live in Vegas, which I know a lot of people in the comments are saying but hear me out. When we say Vegas, we mean everywhere around it. Henderson, Summerlin, North Las Vegas, Boulder City, etc. It's a place of millions of people of mostly middle to low class status who deal with terrible inflation in their groceries and gas, constant construction getting in the way of daily travel, a poor functioning school district with a current teacher strike (though apparently they've reached an agreement?), and to top it all off, we have a terrible homelessness and crime problem that is not getting any better dispite awareness and action from multiple organizations. What makes it frustrating to locals is that it has nothing to do with Clark Country (the district Vegas is located in) being underfunded. They have money. The world sees this in the billion dollar epileptic nightmare, and we locals see this in things like our housing problem, where they are constantly building expensive fancy houses yet not doing anything about unaffordable existing homes. Or in our school district where the superintendent keeps getting his salary raised while we are facing a teacher shortage and violence in our classrooms. Yes, I'm aware that the state and local government is not paying for the whole project, but they still decided they'd focus on it before dealling with our other issues. The point is that this project is a dystopia, as also made clear by Eddy's video, because it puts the entertainment of the wealthy, most of whom don't even live in the state, before the welfare of struggling locals. Anyways, great video! Love seeing my home talked about more :)

24:07 the blade runner 2045 reference actually goes hard

This was great! You should do smaller cheaper video essay exposing the "Monet/Van Gogh Immersive Experience" $50 to walk through a few rooms with pixelated projected images.