It begins with a tornado. Not the one that swept Dorothy out of Kansas in 1939, but a digital whirlwind that greeted an invitation-only audience for a preview inside the Sphere in Las Vegas — a 112m-tall dome where technology and storytelling collide with AI. The Wizard of Oz at Sphere is not so much a remake as a reinvention, where AI both enhances the movie and expands its reality.
Business Times was there to witness a world first: a Hollywood classic transformed into a 270-degree immersive experience, using AI to go beyond the frame, literally and figuratively. The preview was the curtain-raiser to the Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas...
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