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FELIX & PAUL STUDIOS TO LIVE STREAM NASA’S HISTORIC ARTEMIS I LAUNCH TO THE MOON IN IMMERSIVE 360° FORMAT
| Emmy award-winning immersive production studio, Felix & Paul Studios, announces its collaboration with Meta Quest and distribution partners worldwide for the immersive live-streaming of NASA’s first major milestone in its plan to send humankind back to the Moon. The Artemis I launch is currently set to take place in August of this year. This up close livestream will give viewers a one-of-a-kind front-row seat from the launch pad, enabling them to take part in this historic event by bringing them closer than any human to the SLS rocket. Space Explorers: Artemis Ascending will be captured in 8K, 360° virtual reality format exclusively by Felix & Paul Studios and will be livestreamed on: Venues in Horizon Worlds;Facebook 360 on the Space Explorers Facebook page;5G 360 streaming platforms of telcos partners in specific territories; and a number of leading domes and planetariums around the world. “The Apollo missions were televised worldwide in black and white, but the Artemis generation will experience the upcoming Moon missions, and future Mars missions, in an immersive and experiential way. This first immersive live-streaming is part of our ongoing mission which started with our Space Explorers series, to bring the public along for the ride on humanity’s next giant leap in human space exploration,” said Felix Lajeunesse, co-founder and Creative Director of Felix & Paul Studios. Felix & Paul Studios is behind the Emmy-Winning Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, the largest media project ever filmed in space, available in VR headsets on Meta Quest and through the world’s largest immersive and interactive VR exhibit, THE INFINITE. NASA Artemis I is an unmanned, maiden flight of the integrated Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft which will venture thousands of miles beyond the Moon to verify system performance in hopes of bringing astronauts –- including the first woman and the first person of color – back to the lunar surface by 2024. |
| About Felix & Paul Studios – www.felixandpaul.comArtemis Images HERE 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. Space Explorers: Artemis Ascending will be supported by fulldome distribution partners: COSM/E&S, RSA Cosmos/Konica Minolta, Sky-Skan and SSIA. |
