Remember kids: on this day in 1969 Neil Armstrong took one small step for man. That’s the big “On This Day” when it comes to space travel.
You can get your astronaut on today, and you don’t even need a big private space program that you pump years’ worth of productivity into. Just an Oculus and some free time between now and the 23rd.
Because “Felix & Paul Studios, in association with TIME Studios,” are offering “24 hour screenings of ‘ADVANCE’, the second episode of their EMMY-Nominated immersive series, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, in Venues. Space Explorers: The ISS Experience is the largest production ever filmed in space. ‘ADVANCE’ will stream on a 24-hour loop available in Venues to anyone with an Oculus Quest and Quest 2.”
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At 35 minutes for the episode, you’ll spend over three times the amount of time on the space station as the richest man in the world did in his suborbital jaunt. Excelsior!
Press Release Follows
EPISODE 2 OF SPACE EXPLORERS: THE ISS EXPERIENCE
TO SCREEN IN VENUES ON OCULUS QUEST FROM JULY 20–23, 2021
“ADVANCE” — By Felix & Paul Studios and TIME Studios — Will Screen on a 24-Hour Loop in Celebration of National Moon Day
WHAT: In celebration of National Moon Day — a day commemorating Neil Armstrong’s incredible accomplishment as the first person to walk on the moon — EMMY® Award-winning creators Felix & Paul Studios, in association with TIME Studios, will offer 24 hour screenings of “ADVANCE”, the second episode of their EMMY-Nominated immersive series, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, in Venues. Space Explorers: The ISS Experience is the largest production ever filmed in space. “ADVANCE” will stream on a 24-hour loop available in Venues to anyone with an Oculus Quest and Quest 2.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS: The daily workload of conducting pioneering scientific experiments continues on the Space Station as the crew prepares for the departure of three astronauts who have completed their six month stay. A changing of the guard offers an opportunity to reflect on the vital role of women in space.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at midnight PST through Friday, July 23.
ACCESS: The screenings will be viewable in fully-immersive virtual reality (VR) on Oculus Quest and Quest 2. Visit HERE for event subscriptions.
About Space Explorers: The ISS Experience
The largest production ever filmed in space, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience is an epic four-part immersive series that chronicles the life of eight astronauts on life-changing missions aboard the International Space Station. Shot over two years using Felix & Paul Studios’ specialized 3D, 360-degree Space Cameras, and with exclusive access to the crew, the production will produce over 200 hours of high-end virtual reality footage, 18 hours of exclusive astronaut logs and interviews, 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. The trailer for The ISS Experience is available here and stills are available here. Behind the scenes footage is available at Time.com/Space.
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 catalogue 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, Strangerswith 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, Jud Apatow and Trevor Noah; and
Collaborations with world-renowned leaders and performers: President Barack Obama and 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 Facebook’s Oculus 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 Oculus
The Oculus team at Facebook Reality Labs lets people defy distance — connecting with each other and the world — through world-class VR hardware and software. The Oculus content team pursues the creation of best-in-class games, social and narrative experiences, and new VR use-cases like fitness, productivity, and travel. Oculus joins other teams at Facebook Reality Labs dedicated to building the next computing platform centered around people. Facebook Reality Labs is committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation.
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