Long, Long Overdue: Fremont Street Experience getting canopy upgrade (Las Vegas Sun).The canopy upgrade will cost $32 million, a financial collaboration between Fremont Street Experience (and its casino partners), the City of Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Conventions and Visitors Authority. Here’s a video from the LED manufacturing company, Watchfire.īeyond the brightness and resolution, the new canopy will afford the opportunity to include interactivity to the Viva Vision experience. The bottom line: The new Viva Vision screen will be seven times brighter and have four times the resolution.Ī giant benefit to the upgraded screen will be that it can show during daylight hours. The new canopy will feature 49,299,456 energy-efficient LEDs.

(A Nit is a unit of measurement for the total brightness over one square meter of an LED display.) The new screen will have a whopping 16,433,152 pixels and 5,000 Nits! For some context, that’s a lot of Nits. 13, 2018, it was officially announced Fremont Street Experience would undertake a massive renovation of Viva Vision, the world’s largest LED canopy screen. Here’s a timeline of all the news related to the upgrade, most recent updates are at the bottom. Get ready for more, bigger, brighter, better. Here are the lights from the 2004 upgrade. In 2004, Viva Vision got a $17 million upgrade. You say “big and clunky” like it’s a bad thing. Here’s a look at the original lights used for Viva Vision. Fremont Street Experience opened on December 14, 1995. This is the second time Viva Vision has been upgraded.

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