Watch The First Steps Back To The Moon In VR This Monday

It has been nearly 50 years since the last time humans were on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission, but the journeys are about to begin again with the first uncrewed test flight of the system that will take astronauts to Earth’s natural satellite.

The Artemis I launch is on track for Monday, Aug. 29th, and VR pioneers Felix & Paul Studios will provide live 360 feeds in multiple formats of the planned launch. The broadcast begins at 7:33am EDT/4:33am PDT.

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Check it out at home via Venues in Horizon Worlds or at a public venue near you thanks to Cosm. Free.

PRESS RELEASE FOLLOWS

WATCH NASA’S HISTORIC ROCKET LAUNCH TO THE MOON
IN IMMERSIVE 360° FORMAT


The Launch Will Be Accessible Worldwide in Virtual Reality on Meta Quest, on Facebook 360, in Domes and Planetariums and Via Mobile Operators

WHAT: Emmy award-winning immersive production studio, Felix & Paul Studios, will broadcast live NASA’s Artemis I launch in an immersive livestream hosted by retired NASA astronauts Karen Nyberg and Doug Hurley on Meta Quest.

WHEN: August 29, 2022, broadcast begins at 7:33am EST

WHERE: Space Explorers: Artemis Ascending will be livestreamed on:

Venues in Horizon Worlds via Meta Quest Headsets

Facebook 360 on the Space Explorers Facebook page

Live and replay on Orange “Immersive Now” and LG Uplus’ U+DIVE mobile applications

200+ domes and planetariums around the world live and/or on-demand post-launch such as Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium (Canada), Telus Spark Science Center (Canada), US Space and Rocket Center (US), Virginia Air & Space Science Center (US), Liberty Science Center (US), Adler Planetarium (US), Discovery Place Science (US), Planetário da Unipampa (Brazil), Planetarium of the Royal Observatory (Belgium), Museon-Omniversum (Netherlands), Tycho Brahe Planetarium (Denmark), Hamburg Planetarium (Germany), La Coupole (France), Lucern Planetarium (Switzerland), Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (Ireland), Netanya Planetarium (Israel), Rangsit Science Centre For Education (Thailand), Museum Victoria (Australia), and Live on an 8K high-resolution 20-meter LED dome at the Cosm Experience Center in Salt Lake City (US)

For more details on where to watch visit www.explore.space

Space Explorers: Artemis Ascending is sponsored by Amazon and will be supported by fulldome distribution partners: COSM/E&S, RSA Cosmos/Konica Minolta, Sky-Skan, SSIA.

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 Nomadsseries, 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 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.

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