Big Sky camera providing big-screen images for feature films planned at MSG Sphere, and it’s all tested in a Burbank, Calif., studio called Big Dome.
Richard N. Velotta
Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
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The content that will be brought to the massive screen of the MSG Sphere is being developed at Burbank’s Big Dome studio with new ‘Big Sky’ camera technology.
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