One Last Orbit: The Final Episode of Space Explorers: The ISS Experience (NEWSWIRE)
The fourth & final episode of the historic series launches this week
While this week will see the launch of the fourth & final episode of Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, there’s more to come from outer space and Felix & Paul Studios. Get a glimpse at the future of space exploration in this episode that wraps up the series, and then get ready for a live event when the Artemis mission launches later this year.
We’ll have more on that in this week’s podcast episode when Felix Lajeunesse drops in for a chat about the studio’s ongoing collaboration with NASA. Podcast available this Friday.
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Space Explorers: The ISS Experience episode four ‘Expand’ available Wed. July 20th at 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST.
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FELIX & PAUL STUDIOS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH TIME STUDIOS, LAUNCH SPACE EXPLORERS: THE ISS EXPERIENCE — EPISODE 4, “EXPAND”
The Final Chapter of Space Explorers: The ISS Experience Offers an Eye-Opening View into The Future of Space Exploration and What it Means for Audiences Around the World
WHAT: EXPAND, the latest from Felix & Paul Studios’ Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, offers viewers a hyperreal, immersive experience of a dynamic spacewalk and the arrival of the SpaceX Crew to the ISS. The complete series is accessible on Meta Quest VR headsets.
EXPAND SYNOPSIS: Always with an eye towards the future of human space flight and exploration, the ISS crew prepares to close the hatch behind them for the last time as a year-long mission comes to an end. Questions surround them as the COVID-19 pandemic back on earth complicates their return with a vast number of unknowns. They leave knowing the work they accomplished on the ISS will help all those who will come after them to expand the horizon of deep space exploration. With the upcoming Artemis I launch, sights are set to getting back to the moon with the ultimate goal of Mars. With the realization of commercial space flight, expansion is now closer than ever. The episode — and series — culminate with the first-ever spacewalk filmed in ultra high-resolution cinematic virtual reality.
WHEN: July 20, 2022 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST
ACCESS: You can view this fully-immersive virtual reality (VR) experience with Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 headsets, HERE.
About Space Explorers: The ISS Experience
The largest production ever filmed in space, Emmy Award-winning Space Explorers: The ISS Experience is an epic immersive series that invites you to join eight astronauts on life-changing missions aboard the International Space Station. The series features NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Christina Koch, Jessica Meir, Andrew Morgan, Nick Hague and Victor Glover, CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques, ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Shot over two years using Felix & Paul Studios’ specialized 3D, 360-degree Space Cameras, and with exclusive access to the crew, the production produced over 200 hours of high-end virtual reality footage, and the first-ever visuals of the ISS, Planet Earth and a spacewalk captured in high-end cinematic virtual reality. Get access to the astronauts’ full experience through moments of camaraderie, shared meals, and personal video logs. Follow us at explore.space as we keep documenting Human Space Exploration and NASA’s ARTEMIS program.
About Felix & Paul Studios
Felix & Paul Studios is an EMMY® Award-winning creator of immersive entertainment experiences, creating unparalleled, highly engaging, presence-based experiences for the next generation of technology-enabled devices and venues. The studio’s catalog of over thirty 3D, 360-degree experiences exhibits the “industry’s best’’ in the new medium of immersive storytelling, including:
Originals: The Space Explorers series, Traveling While Black, MIYUBI, the Nomads series, Strangers with Patrick Watson.
Productions with notable franchises: Jurassic World, Cirque du Soleil, Fox Searchlight’s Wild and Isle of Dogs, and The Confessionals series with Just for Laughs starring Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh, Judd Apatow and Trevor Noah.
Collaborations with world-renowned leaders and performers: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, LeBron James, President Bill Clinton, Eminem, Wes Anderson, Brie Larson, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray and many others.
The studio’s content is available for distribution in a range of immersive formats including 360-degree mobile on 5G-enabled smartphones, tablets and headsets; 360-degree fulldome projection in domes and planetariums; fully-immersive VR on Meta Quest and other high-end virtual reality platforms; Giant Screen projection for science centers, space welcome centers and large-format cinemas; and the touring life-scale immersive exhibit, THE INFINITE, produced in partnership with PHI Studio. Felix & Paul Studios is the leading Space Media Company and the only media company recognized as an “Official Implementation Partner” by the ISS U.S. National Laboratory.
About TIME Studios
TIME Studios is the Emmy Award-winning television and film division of TIME, the global media brand that reaches a combined audience of more than 90 million around the world. Built on the foundation of TIME’s award-winning visual journalism, which has earned over 52 major awards and nominations in the last seven years, and achieved 577 million video streams across all platforms in 2019, Emmy-winning TIME Studios harnesses the access and authority of one of the world’s most trusted and respected brands to bring premium truth-based programming to television and film around the world while continuing to push the boundaries of journalism and visual storytelling through new cutting-edge mediums including virtual reality and augmented reality.
About Meta Quest
The Meta Quest team at Reality Labs lets people defy distance — connecting with each other and the world — through world-class VR hardware and software. The Meta Quest content team pursues the creation of best-in-class games, narrative experiences, and new VR use-cases like fitness, productivity, and travel. Meta Quest joins other teams at Reality Labs dedicated to cutting-edge research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more. Reality Labs is committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation.