By Walter Robert, Editor-in-Chief
When the lights dim inside Las Vegas’ monumental Sphere, the air shifts. Suddenly, audiences are swept into otherworldly realms, immersed in Tomorrowland’s aquatic utopia, Insomniac’s electric dreamscapes, and a symphonic tribute to the music that defined a generation. This is UNITY, the groundbreaking collaboration between Tomorrowland, Insomniac, and Belgian design studio Prismax.
For Joris of Prismax, who has spent two decades shaping Tomorrowland’s iconic mainstage visuals, Unity represents both a technical Everest and a creative homecoming. “Tomorrowland called me a year and a half ago,” he remembers. “They said, we want to do a show in the Sphere. At first, it went quiet we weren’t even sure if it would happen. Then they came back with Insomniac. Suddenly, it wasn’t just an idea. It became real.”
Photo by Jake West
Tomorrowland and Insomniac speak different creative dialects. Tomorrowland’s stages lean into beauty, myth, and nature, floating islands, underwater kingdoms, and frozen landscapes. Insomniac, with EDC and Beyond Wonderland, brings faster energy, playful chaos, and festival humor. “Tomorrowland’s blocks are about transporting people into emotional, natural worlds,” Joris explains. “Insomniacs are more about playful transitions, themes that keep you moving. When you put them together, it just works. They balance each other.”
This duality gives Unity its pulse: a voyage where cinematic beauty and raw festival energy trade hands seamlessly inside the world’s most advanced venue. Prismax is no stranger to spectacle. Their resume includes Tomorrowland’s most legendary stages, each a fusion of myth, architecture, and narrative.
Photo by Jamal Eid
But translating those visions into the Sphere demanded a reinvention.
“Everything we’d built before was for LED screens,” Joris says. “The Sphere’s resolution is unlike anything else in the world. We had to rebuild entire worlds from scratch. Nine months of work, starting over completely. But the result is crisp, sharp, and alive in a way you can only feel inside that dome.”
To prepare, Prismax recreated the Sphere in VR, testing sequences through headsets in their Belgium office. After eight months, they finally stepped inside the test Sphere in Burbank. “We only had to make minor tweaks,” Joris says. “For a first show in such a new venue, it was surprisingly smooth. But we learned so much, we know the next one can be even better.” Unity’s vision was also shaped in close collaboration with Tomorrowland’s in-house creative team, the same minds responsible for the festival’s legendary mainstage themes. Their storytelling DNA world-building, symbolism, and emotional detail helped ensure that the Sphere experience still felt unmistakably Tomorrowland, even in such a radically different environment.
Unlike traditional festivals, Unity strips away the familiar presence of a DJ. Instead, the experience flows as a cinematic voyage through five distinct worlds, punctuated by timeless anthems from Tomorrowland and EDC’s history. “The challenge was emotion,” Joris admits. “At festivals, people connect through the DJ. Here, we had to find new anchors. That’s why Tomorrowland brought in the Symphony of Unity, a 45-piece orchestra performing live over electronic tracks.
It transforms everything. You’re not just hearing music; you’re feeling it resonate through a symphony and an entire universe of visuals.
Photo by Keiki-Lani Knudsen
Unity also creates moments of collective intimacy. A tribute to Avicii projects his constellation into the sky, each star forming his likeness as one of his greatest songs drops against a firework explosion. For an audience submerged in digital wonder, it’s a reminder that music still carries human memory and loss. And then, the density: Unity is so layered that Joris insists you’d need to see it four or five times to catch every detail. “We packed so much in hidden flourishes, textures, little secrets. Every time you go back, you notice something new.”
Joris has long dreamed of building a venue that is itself an instrument of immersion. “I used to say, if I could design the ultimate stage, it would be a dome of video where you could transport people anywhere. The Sphere made that real. But even I didn’t imagine it would be this big.”
For now, Unity is exclusive to the Sphere in Las Vegas. But expansion is inevitable: with a second Sphere already under construction in Abu Dhabi, the show is poised to become a global residency, traveling from city to city as new venues rise. “They’re creating a network,” Joris says. “Unity could live in Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Asia, anywhere a Sphere exists.”
Photos by Orhun Uygur
For Prismax, Unity is both the culmination of a journey and the start of a new one. “Fifteen years ago, we set a goal: we wanted to do visuals for the #1 DJ in the world. We achieved that. Then when the Sphere was announced, we said, That’s the end goal. If we can do a show there, we’ve made it. Now we’ve done it. And after the premiere, we asked ourselves: What now?”
The answer is simple: keep going. “We want to do more Sphere shows. This was our first, but we learned so much. There’s room to push harder, dream bigger. For us, Unity is not the finish line; it’s the start of a new level.”
Unity isn’t just spectacle. It’s a cultural shift, a reimagining of what live music can be when art, technology, and storytelling align. It proves that dance culture doesn’t just exist in fields or nightclubs; it can exist in entire universes built from sound and vision. For Tomorrowland, for Insomniac, for Prismax, and for everyone who steps inside, Unity is a promise: that the future of experience is already here, glowing inside a dome in the desert.
Photo by Jake West
The experience is breathtaking in a way words can’t fully capture. It’s raw, beautiful, and fun. The graphics are truly remarkable, wrapping you in worlds so vivid that you have to be there, inside the Sphere, to understand. It’s an immersive collision of music, visuals, and EDM culture that everyone should experience at least once in their life.