Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC

Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can retrieve an image or a series of images, often referred to as video, that can be projected onto a media plane of a venue. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can transform the image from two-dimensions to three-dimensions for projection onto the media plane. As part of this transformation, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can logically segment the media plane into multiple slices of the media plane and the image into multiple slices of the image. Thereafter, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can project one or more pixels of the slices of the media plane onto an image space of an image slice to provide one or more points on the image slice. These systems, methods, and apparatuses thereafter weighs and accumulates color information of one or more pixels from the image slice that are nearby the one or more points on the image to interpolate color information, of the pixels of the media plane.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can incorporate one or more real-world performers that are performing within a venue into interactive content. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can identify one or more joints or ligaments, for example, left shoulders, right knees, among others, of the one or more real-world performers from the image, or the series of images, of the one or more real-world performers. These joints or ligaments can be represented as one or more performer markers. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can generate one or more three-dimensional models of the one or more real-world performers in a three-dimensional space from the one or more performer markers. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can apply the one or more three-dimensional models of the one or more real-world performers to the one or more virtual characters in the three-dimensional space. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can render the one or more virtual characters from the three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional space of the interactive content to integrate the one or more real-world performers into the interactive content.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can map content items onto a venue using rendering-based, replication-based, and region-based mappings. In rendering-based mapping, multiple renderings of the content items are captured from multiple locations. In replication-based mapping, a single rendering is captured from one location and replicated across the venue. In region-based mapping, the venue is divided into distinct three-dimensional physical surfaces, and content items is mapped onto each region, optionally using virtual representations, transformations, and virtual texture maps to ensure geometric, photometric, and spatial coherence across the surfaces.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can process a three-dimensional model of an object in a three-dimensional space to display the object on a real-world structure. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can access the three-dimensional model of the object, generate a three-dimensional reflection model of the object, and/or provide the three-dimensional reflection model of the object to the real-world structure to display the object on the real-world structure. Alternatively, or additionally, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can transform the three-dimensional reflection model of the object onto a two-dimensional reflection model of the object and/or provide the two-dimensional reflection model of the object to the real-world structure to display the object on the real-world structure.

Systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein can process a three-dimensional model of an object in a three-dimensional space to display the object on a real-world structure. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can access the three-dimensional model of the object, generate a three-dimensional reflection model of the object, and/or provide the three-dimensional reflection model of the object to the real-world structure to display the object on the real-world structure. Alternatively, or additionally, these systems, methods, and apparatuses can transform the three-dimensional reflection model of the object onto a two-dimensional reflection model of the object and/or provide the two-dimensional reflection model of the object to the real-world structure to display the object on the real-world structure.

Exemplary venues allow for members of an audience at different locations within these venues to simultaneously interact with an interactive content. The interactive content can convey one or more requisite actions to be performed by the members of the audience. However, the one or more requisite actions can reach members of the audience at different instances in time. These exemplary venues can effectively compensate for these different instances in time such that the accuracy and/or the synchronization of one or more response actions, which are performed by the members of the audience in response to the one or more requisite actions, can be characterized as no longer being dependent upon their distance from the interactive content. Rather, the accuracy and/or the synchronization of the one or more response actions by the members of the audience to the one or more requisite actions can be considered as being related to the performance, for example, timing, of the one or more response actions themselves.

Exemplary venues allow for members of an audience at different locations within these venues to simultaneously interact with an interactive content. The interactive content can convey one or more requisite actions to be performed by the members of the audience. However, the one or more requisite actions can reach members of the audience at different instances in time. These exemplary venues can effectively compensate for these different instances in time such that the accuracy and/or the synchronization of one or more response actions, which are performed by the members of the audience in response to the one or more requisite actions, can be characterized as no longer being dependent upon their distance from the interactive content. Rather, the accuracy and/or the synchronization of the one or more response actions by the members of the audience to the one or more requisite actions can be considered as being related to the performance, for example, timing, of the one or more response actions themselves.

Exemplary venues allow for members of an audience at different locations within these venues to simultaneously interact with an interactive content. The interactive content can convey one or more requisite actions to be performed by the members of the audience. However, the one or more requisite actions can reach members of the audience at different instances in time. These exemplary venues can effectively compensate for these different instances in time such that the accuracy and/or the synchronization of one or more response actions, which are performed by the members of the audience in response to the one or more requisite actions, can be characterized as no longer being dependent upon their distance from the interactive content. Rather, the accuracy and/or the synchronization of the one or more response actions by the members of the audience to the one or more requisite actions can be considered as being related to the performance, for example, timing, of the one or more response actions themselves.

An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.

An integrated audio-visual system is disclosed for delivering an event to one or more spectators. The integrated audio-visual system includes one or more loudspeakers that are positioned behind one or more visual displays to be effectively behind the one or more visual displays to be shielded from the field of view of the one or more spectators. The one or more visual displays are specially designed and manufactured to allow sound associated with the event to propagate from the one or more loudspeakers with minimal acoustical distortion and/or minimum acoustical vibration while presenting a visual representation of the event to the one or more spectators. Moreover, the one or more loudspeakers and the one or more visual displays are situated to be a predetermined displacement from each other to further minimize acoustical distortion.