The Wizard of Oz has been revamped with AI for 16K monster LED screen of the Las Vegas Sphere

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You aren't in Kansas anymore, you're in Las Vegas - or you might be in August, watching an AI-revamped version of The Wizard of Oz that'll likely blow you away hurricane-style.

The iconic movie has been jazzed up with generative AI for screening on the 16K monster LED canvas of the Las Vegas Sphere, and we're betting it'll make quite an impact when the film starts showing on August 28 (as Neowin spotted, and FOX5 Las Vegas reports above).

Google tells us:

"For months, thousands of researchers, programmers, visual effects artists, archivists and producers at Google DeepMind, Google Cloud, Sphere Studios, Magnopus, Warner Bros. Discovery and others in the film and technology industries have been working to bring the 1939 classic to a very big screen in a very big way."

What promises to be an 'immersive sensory experience' is largely driven by the latest in generative AI media models, namely Imagen and Veo, with Google's own Gemini unsurprisingly also playing a substantial supporting role.

Google is quick to point out that this isn't about changing the fundamentals of The Wizard of Oz - the script hasn't been touched, or the original music - but rather it's a case of visually embellishing the classic movie.

Which makes it sound easy enough, but the company also goes to pains to underline that this was not a simple endeavor, or a matter of formulating a bunch of AI prompts - far from it.

The challenges sound pretty immense in terms of blowing up the original grainy movie to something that works on the Sphere's 16K LED screen, and ensuring that the way in which The Wizard of Oz was filmed in terms of camera angles and cuts also suits that huge canvas.

The end result sounds like it'll be pretty stunning for fans of the film who want to see it in a very new light in four months' time.