Wow, okay, so here’s a little dive into something that left me with my jaw hanging. Picture this: Red Bull and Jonathan Griffith doing their thing with “Touching the Sky” on Quest. Yeah, you’re basically thrown into the wild with wingsuit flyers and paragliders dancing in the freakin’ sky over the Alps and Himalayas. And it’s all in this trippy, immersive hour-long thing. Mind-blowing, right?
So they’ve got these souped-up 3D, 360 cameras, like something out of a sci-fi flick, catching every twist and twirl of Fred Fugen and Vincent Cotte. They’re doing their Batman thing off the Italian Dolomites. Imagine that — like, you can almost feel the wind in your hair. Fugen said in some blog post (Red Bull’s, of course) that the real kicker was not eating dirt when free-falling with these high-tech cameras. Madness! Coordinating with drone pilots from a helicopter — sounds like a recipe for chaos, doesn’t it? They barely had any practice runs, so it’s like they winged it, literally and figuratively.
And then there’s Aaron Durogati and Matthias Weger showing off, gliding over the Pakistani Himalayas. Just imagining the vastness and danger gives me the shivers. Durogati was saying how the mountains there are beasts compared to the Alps. Flying solo, way high up, where even rescue birds can’t reach if something goes south. That’s hardcore.
Oh, and you can catch this mind-bender on Meta Quest TV, no strings attached if you’ve got Quest 2 or higher. There’s also this behind-the-scenes bit, like 30 minutes long, giving you the scoop on the crazy logistics. Docs like these are like a peek behind the curtain of the greatest show on Earth.
Anyway — no, wait — it’s all such a wild ride. Trust me, you don’t wanna miss it.
