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\n\tWhen the Las Vegas Grand Prix gets going Saturday night, the 300,000 people in Sin City won\u2019t be the only ones on hand taking in the action. Orbi, the giant emoji projected on the outside of the Sphere (and plenty of merch inside it), will be watching with his large yellow head and expressive eyes as well. Formula 1 fans will see him turn this way and that and possibly wonder what he\u2019s doing. As it happens, there\u2019s a lot more science in those movements than you might expect.<\/p>\n
\n\tSphere\u2019s chief creative officer Ned McNeilage explained\u00a0to\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u00a0what\u2019s happening and why.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOrbi is one of our iconic pieces at Sphere, so for him to track cars and be an F1 fan made a lot of sense. We built a model, a map, that helps us understand where the cameras are on the track in relation to Orbi, and then we receive GPS positioning data from [F1 London headquarters in] Biggin Hill so that his vision will be in perfect sync, pace and timing with a car,\u201d McNeilage said. \u201cHe can track any driver throughout the race with his eyes \u2014 it\u2019s often the leader but it can be another car if there\u2019s drama or an overtake. But he\u2019s tracking it with his eyes exactly, which we think is pretty cool \u2014 he\u2019s watching the race with us. Everything we do at Sphere we try move people emotionally, and people love Orbi. He doesn\u2019t have a favorite though. Every driver is tied for first in his mind.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tYou can watch Orbi watching the race in the above video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the Las Vegas Grand Prix gets going Saturday night, the 300,000 people in Sin City won\u2019t be the only ones on hand taking in the action. Orbi, the giant emoji projected on the outside of the Sphere (and plenty of merch inside it), will be watching with his large yellow head and expressive eyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4858,2891,19728,6162,19727,2892,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-34817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-grand","9":"tag-las","10":"tag-orbi","11":"tag-prix","12":"tag-spheres","13":"tag-vegas","14":"tag-watch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}