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Wow, okay, so, Red Bull and Jonathan Griffith Productions have come out with this thing—Touching the Sky—on Quest. I found myself weirdly fascinated. You kind of journey along with these wingsuit and paragliding folks, you know, hanging out in the European Alps and then boom, off to the Himalayas in Pakistan. It’s like an hour-long wild ride of sorts.
They’ve got these custom 3D, 360 cameras, which just sounds, I don’t know, almost sci-fi? These athletes, Fred Fugen and Vincent Cotte, they’re zipping through the Italian Dolomites in their wingsuits. Fred mentioned—somewhere in a Red Bull blog I stumbled upon—that freefalling with that camera wasn’t a walk in the park. Imagine trying to buddy up with drone pilots from a helicopter. Like, no big deal, right? They kinda had to dive into this whole rhythm together without much prep. Makes my grocery shopping coordination look like child’s play!
Then we swing over to the Pakistani Himalayas with Aaron Durogati and Matthias Weger. Their thing was to get, as Aaron put it, up high and super deep into those ginormous peaks. I mean, flying there’s nothing like a stroll in the Alps. Those thermal flows are an enigma, apparently. And if trouble hits, you’re on your own. No handy rescue choppers buzzing your way like in the Alps. Eeeeek.
So, if you’re curious, this documentary is up for grabs for free on Meta Quest TV, but only if you’ve got a Quest 2 headset or better. Oh, and there’s this behind-the-scenes piece Red Bull released. It’s like a half-hour peek into what went into catching all this madness on film. And trust me, from what I’ve seen, it’s like, whoa!
