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Interactive Technology Concepts

Interactive LED Sphere: Spherical LED Display for Events & Venues

A perfect ball of moving light. Our spherical LED displays wrap high-resolution visuals around a full 360° surface, so content reads from every angle and from every floor. Configured from 1 to 10 metres, built for your space, with the content and the interaction designed by us.

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What is it

What is a Spherical LED Display?

A spherical LED display, also called an LED sphere, a sphere LED screen, an LED globe or an LED ball display, is a ball-shaped screen built from curved LED panels. Content wraps around the entire surface, so there is no front and no back, and no bad seat. In an atrium it reads from every floor at once. On a stand it reads from every aisle.

That is a genuinely different proposition from a flat screen. A flat screen faces one direction and asks people to stand in front of it. A sphere is an object in the room that people walk around, look up at, and photograph. It works as architecture as much as it works as a display.

Add sensing and it becomes interactive: visitors spin a globe of the Earth, push through layers of live data, or move through a brand story, using a touch kiosk beside the sphere, touchless gesture control, or their own phone.

Is this the same thing as the Las Vegas Sphere?

Same idea, different scale. The Las Vegas Sphere is a building with an LED surface, roughly 112 metres tall. A commercial spherical LED display is the same underlying technology, curved LED panels driven as one continuous 360° canvas at a size that fits an atrium, a stand, a gallery or a lobby, typically between 1 and 10 metres.

It is worth saying plainly because it is the most common thing people picture, and the honest comparison helps rather than hurts: you cannot have a Vegas Sphere, but a 3-metre sphere in a hotel atrium produces the same reaction at a scale you can actually commission, install and pay for.

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Key Features

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True 360° Canvas

One continuous image around the whole surface. No front, no back, no bad viewing angle.

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Configured 1 m to 10 m

Diameter and pixel pitch selected from your space and viewing distance, not from a fixed catalogue.

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Touchless Interaction

Gesture and motion sensing let visitors spin, zoom and explore without touching the display.

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Kiosk & Phone Control

A touch kiosk beside the sphere, or the visitor's own phone via QR, drives the content reliably and doubles as a lead capture point.

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Live Data Integration

Connect real feeds, weather, markets, network status, production data, visitor numbers and the sphere updates itself.

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Data Visualisation & Storytelling

The natural home for anything planetary, geographic or global. A sphere shows Earth data the way no flat screen can.

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Indoor or Outdoor Build

High-brightness outdoor panels with weather-rated structure, or indoor panels tuned for interior light levels.

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Floor-Mounted or Suspended

On a reinforced base, or rigged from structure for the more dramatic look, subject to a structural survey.

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Content Built for the Curve

Our team authors to the sphere's own pixel map, so the image lands correctly instead of being stretched onto it.

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Where It Shines

What a Spherical LED Display Needs to Work

A sphere is the most structurally and creatively demanding display we supply. Nearly every problem on a sphere project is decided months before installation, at specification and content stage. This is what actually governs it.

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Pixel pitch from viewing distance

Optimal viewing distance in metres ≈ pixel pitch in mm × 3 to 4. A P3 sphere reads cleanly from about 1 m, a P6 from about 2 m. Specifying finer pitch than the room needs is the most common way to overspend on a sphere.

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Total resolution

Pixel count ≈ π × diameter² ÷ pitch². A 2 m sphere at P3 gives roughly 1.4 million pixels, which is below 1080p spread over the whole ball. A 4 m sphere at P2.5 reaches about 8 million, roughly 4K. Pitch drives this far more than diameter does.

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Cost scaling

Cost follows surface area, not diameter. Going from 1 m to 2 m roughly quadruples the cost. Worth knowing before the brief settles on a number.

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Get the pixel map first

Content is authored in equirectangular projection, but the deliverable is the sphere's own pixel map, bespoke to its panel layout. Request that mapping file before the first frame is produced. Asking early is free; asking late can cost a full re-render.

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Respect the poles

Equirectangular projection compresses content towards the poles — an element at 60° latitude is squeezed about twice as hard as one at the equator, and the top and bottom rows collapse to a point. Keep key content within roughly ±45–60° of the equator. Never animate anything important across a pole.

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Power

220–240V AC. Draw depends on diameter, pitch and brightness — a small indoor sphere runs on a normal circuit, a large or outdoor one needs a dedicated distribution. We confirm the load and give your contractor the figure.

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Refresh rate

Specify 3,840 Hz or higher if the sphere will ever be filmed or photographed for broadcast or social. A lower refresh rate scans visibly on camera, which quietly ruins the content you commissioned it to generate.

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The Detail

Spherical LED Display Technical Specifications

Representative specification. Diameter, pitch and brightness are selected per project — we confirm the full schedule at survey.

Specification	Detail
System type	Freestanding holographic display cabinet, a transparent panel over a lit enclosure
Display type	Transparent display panel [CONFIRM: LCD or OLED]
Screen size	55 inches (diagonal). Other sizes available on request [CONFIRM: state the size range]
Resolution	[CONFIRM against panel datasheet]
Transparency	[CONFIRM against panel datasheet]
Brightness	[CONFIRM against panel datasheet]
Viewing angle	178° horizontal / vertical
Response time	≤ 1 ms
Orientation	Portrait (standard for this cabinet format)
Structural dimensions	1000 × 800 × 2000 mm (W × D × H)
Content format	MP4 (H.264 / H.265), pure black background, 15–60 second loop
Interaction	Touch interface, motion and proximity auto-trigger, optional gesture control (Kinect / LiDAR)
Control system	Tablet-based content and playlist control
Processing unit	High-performance PC
Power supply	220–240V AC, standard socket
Data connectivity	LAN, Wi-Fi
Ports	HDMI, USB, Ethernet
Audio	Speakers with amplifiers
Ambient light	Optimised for indoor lighting below approximately 500 lux
Mounting	Level, rigid floor. No vibration.
Installation	Indoor
Setup time	60–120 minutes typical
Availability	Event rental and permanent installation

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FAQ

What is a spherical LED display?

A spherical LED display is a ball-shaped screen built from curved LED panels, where content wraps around the full 360° surface. It is also called an LED sphere, a sphere LED screen, an LED globe or an LED ball display. Because there is no front or back, it reads from every angle and, in an atrium, from every floor at once.

What sizes are available?

From about 1 metre to 10 metres in diameter. Small spheres of 1 to 2 metres suit retail, lobbies, galleries and exhibition stands. Medium spheres of 3 to 5 metres suit atriums, exhibition halls and experience centres. Larger spheres of 6 to 10 metres suit plazas and public landmarks. We size it from your space and viewing distance rather than from a fixed catalogue.

How much does an LED sphere cost?

It depends on diameter, pixel pitch, indoor or outdoor build, structure and rigging, and how much custom content is involved. One thing worth knowing early: cost follows surface area, not diameter, so going from a 1-metre sphere to a 2-metre one roughly quadruples the price rather than doubling it. Tell us the space, the viewing distance and what you want it to show, and we will quote properly rather than guess.

What content works best on a sphere?

Anything planetary, geographic or global, Earth data, climate, logistics networks, satellite imagery, because a sphere is the correct shape for it. Beyond that: bold form, strong colour, organic motion, particles and textured gradients. What does not work is dense small text, thin hard-edged lines and large flat fields of a single colour, which expose panel seams. A sphere is a big canvas with a modest pixel budget, and designing to that is what makes it look spectacular.

Ready to make a globe of light your centrepiece?

Let's design an interactive LED sphere that becomes the centre of attention in your space, sized to the room, built to the structure, with the content and the interaction designed around your audience.

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