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Field of dreams: Dodgers fans watch Game 4 of the 2024 World Series at Cosm Los Angeles in October 2024.
Photo: Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images
A new kind of immersive theater is giving US sports fans the live-game experience at a fraction of stadium prices. Part sports bar and part planetarium, Cosm is a venue that uses streaming technology and massive curving LED screens to deliver views that rival the best seats in arenas, ballparks and stadiums.
Cosm, which currently has two locations and plans to open more this year, hopes to be both a “shared reality” destination and a neighborhood anchor. But can they draw die-hard sports fans away from their beloved local watering holes? Kriston Capps reports back from his visit to one of these sprawling mega-theaters in Dallas, Texas, today on CityLab: Is This Weird Dome the Future of Watching Sports?
