{"681971":{"#nid":"681971","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Over the Rainbow and Into 15K: Alumni Help Bring Oz to Life at the Las Vegas Sphere","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor anyone who has only seen the movie on television, \u003Cem\u003EThe Wizard of Oz\u003C\/em\u003E is an incredible movie theater experience. Its larger-than-life characters, vivid colors, and memorable soundtrack were made for the big screen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow, a Georgia Tech professor and several alumni are helping bring the 1939 classic Hollywood film to what will likely be its largest screen ever: the Las Vegas Sphere\u0027s 160,000-square-foot interior screen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/lions-tigers-and-tech-oh-my-alumni-help-dorothy-debut-ultra-hd-sphere\u0022\u003ERead more to discover their pivotal role and how generative AI is used to \u0022reconceptualize\u0022 the film for the August 28 premiere of \u003Cem\u003EThe Wizard of Oz at Sphere\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDebuting in August, \u0022The Wizard of Oz at Sphere\u0027 has a solid connection to Georgia Tech\u0027s AI community. A Georgia Tech professor and several alumni are helping bring the 1939 classic Hollywood film to what will likely be its largest screen ever: the Las Vegas Sphere\u0027s 160,000-square-foot interior screen.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Debuting in August, \u0022The Wizard of Oz at Sphere\u0027 has a solid connection to Georgia Tech\u0027s AI community."}],"uid":"32045","created_gmt":"2025-04-22 18:25:36","changed_gmt":"2025-04-25 14:39:01","author":"Ben Snedeker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-04-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"676907":{"id":"676907","type":"image","title":"The Wizard of Oz at Sphere courtesy of Google \u0026 Sphere","body":null,"created":"1745346361","gmt_created":"2025-04-22 18:26:01","changed":"1745346361","gmt_changed":"2025-04-22 18:26:01","alt":"\u0027The Wizard of Oz at Sphere,\u0027 image courtesy of Google \u0026 Sphere","file":{"fid":"260756","name":"Cloud_WoZ_SS.width-1300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/22\/Cloud_WoZ_SS.width-1300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/04\/22\/Cloud_WoZ_SS.width-1300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104371,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/04\/22\/Cloud_WoZ_SS.width-1300.jpg?itok=V79uW9rl"}}},"media_ids":["676907"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"1188","name":"Research Horizons"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"506","name":"alumni"},{"id":"596","name":"Alumni Association"},{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"181991","name":"Georgia Tech News Center"},{"id":"187812","name":"artificial intelligence (AI)"},{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"192390","name":"generative AI"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Snedeker\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Manager\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ealbert.snedeker@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}