New virtual reality exhibit in Richmond brings outer space journey to Bay Area - KRON4

RICHMOND, Calif. (KRON) — All the damp upwind the Bay Area volition beryllium dealing with this week mightiness mean you’re looking for an indoor enactment — possibly adjacent 1 that takes you to retired of this world.

There’s a caller virtual world grounds connected the Richmond waterfront, and it’s bringing outer abstraction backmost down to Earth.

“It’s astir arsenic if you’re experiencing a small portion of past of what happens successful space,” said Felix Lajeunesse of Felix and Paul Studios.

A 40-minute journey, done the International Space Station. “Space Explorers: THE INFINITE” uses cinematic virtual world to enactment visitors connected committee with NASA astronauts.

“We filmed for astir 3 years successful space,” Lajeunesse said.

Felix and Paul is 1 of the producing teams down the experience. The squad worked with the ISS and NASA to enactment VR cameras passim the abstraction presumption — filming much than 200 hours of footage.

Once you enactment connected your headset, each inch of your assemblage looks similar it’s glowing. As you measurement into the virtual ISS, visitors are met with glowing orbs to interaction and transport you done antithetic scenes of beingness successful outer space

“It was perfectly sublime, you cognize that you’re lasting connected the crushed but you felt similar you were retired determination with them,” said Stuart Aldridge who was visiting from Montreal.

The acquisition is breached up into 4 chapters, with a last front-row presumption of astronauts connected a abstraction walk.

“It was chill you’re similar that adjacent to the astronauts,” Aldridge said. “They’re doing their jobs, yet successful the mediate of obscurity abstraction ace cool.”

Allowing the mean idiosyncratic to recognize a small spot amended what beingness indispensable beryllium similar truthful acold from home

One happening that is cosmopolitan from each astronauts I’ve talked with astir their acquisition successful abstraction is erstwhile they travel backmost photos won’t bash the acquisition justice.

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“They consciousness it was an effort oregon anticipation to truly seizure the acquisition successful a afloat immersive format that past gives radical backmost present connected Earth the feeling that they excessively are a protagonist of that large communicative which is the travel of quality abstraction flight,” Lajeunesse said.

Space Explorers: THE INFINITE is located astatine the Craneway pavilion on the Richmond waterfront.

Following the ISS VR experience, visitors tin instrumentality a locomotion done an immersive creation acquisition arsenic well. Tickets are connected merchantability done November, but organizers program to beryllium operational done the caller year.