{"id":13631,"date":"2025-01-12T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2025-02-16T12:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:32:17","slug":"futuresports-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/12\/futuresports-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FutureSports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-01-02\/at-cosm-sports-fans-experience-live-games-on-shared-reality-screens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is This Weird Dome the Future of Watching Sports?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Part sports bar and part planetarium, the screen-based entertainment venue Cosm promises an immersive&nbsp;game-day experience&nbsp;at a fraction of stadium prices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AUc4dL0HxnA\/kriston-capps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kriston Capps<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.bwbx.io\/images\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/ipTExd1eW2oU\/v2\/-1x-1.webp\" alt=\"Field of dreams: Dodgers fans watch Game 4 of the 2024 World Series at Cosm Los Angeles in October 2024.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Field of dreams: Dodgers fans watch Game 4 of the 2024 World Series at Cosm Los Angeles in October 2024. <em>Photo: Keith Birmingham\/MediaNews Group\/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Dallas Cowboys fans gathered at Cosm, a new sports venue just north of Dallas, the climax of the Nov. 24 National Football League game against the Washington Commanders delivered a heart-attack-worthy spectacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams were muddling through a 10-9 game until the fourth quarter, when a series of unlikely events turned things upside down. In the final stretch, the two offenses exploded for a collective 31 points. With less than a minute left and all the mojo behind them, the Commanders sneezed on an extra-point kick that would have tied the game. Then Washington surrendered a touchdown on the subsequent kickoff, sealing their fate in a 34-26 loss at their home field at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cowboys fans all over the planet witnessed the same bewildering victory on TV. But few Dallas die-hards had better seats for this shocking turnabout than those watching at Cosm, an immersive sports theater that opened in August in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosm.com\/dallas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Colony<\/a>, a north Dallas suburb. Hundreds of fans gathered inside the facility\u2019s cavernous dome to watch a Sunday stunner on a concave three-story screen \u2014 an experience immense and vivid enough to be lifelike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-01-02\/at-cosm-sports-fans-experience-live-games-on-shared-reality-screens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Bloomberg<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bloomberg Is This Weird Dome the Future of Watching Sports? Part sports bar and part planetarium, the screen-based entertainment venue Cosm promises an immersive&nbsp;game-day experience&nbsp;at a fraction of stadium prices.&nbsp; By\u00a0Kriston Capps For Dallas Cowboys fans gathered at Cosm, a new sports venue just north of Dallas, the climax of the Nov. 24 National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}