The International Space Station (ISS) has introduced an all-new ISS experience, which is a virtual reality series. This series documents the research conducted on the space station as well as the general life of people in this place.
This series has been filmed over several months, and it documents the activities and day-to-day processes of various crew members as a part of the series. Therefore, you can get a glimpse of everything from scientific experiments to spacewalk preparations conducted aboard the space station.
The station makes use of cinematic VR to create an immersive experience for the audience. This series is, in itself, documentation of life on the International Space Station. This experience can potentially be carried out as an outreach tool to teach about the research conducted on ISS, including life on the space station.
The main aim of this one-of-a-kind cinematic VR experience is to make the audience feel that it is actually in space. This, in turn, not just allows spectators to view the events occurring before them as a third person but lets them act as crew members and get a first-hand experience.
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In addition to that, this experience brings people closer to astronauts and allows them to interact with these people who spend so much of their time in space. Therefore, on some level, the audience is also bound to learn more about the challenges encountered in various space missions and during research.
The ISS experience, besides educating the people on Earth about life in space, also serves to enhance future space missions for crew members. For this series, the crew essentially films around four hours of footage every week.
Furthermore, every week or two, the team transfers the entire footage onto solid-state drives from the camera for downlinking and storage.
This entire project has been named “Space Explorers: The ISS Experience,” and it uses a 360-degree camera for filming. This is a pretty ingenious idea as it allows the astronauts aboard the ISS to show how life unfolds in a scientific environment 400 km above the surface of the Earth.