One of Felix and Paul's primary concentrations is filming science on station. The team is recording a few hours a week to document life in space. Since then, the team has recorded many moments, including a jam session among the astronauts, crew meals and the arrival of new astronauts. The resulting device launched on the 16th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission in December 2018 along with a number of other scientific experiments. Instead, they collaborated with camera company Z-Cam to develop a new virtual reality camera system much smaller in size. That was not going to work in the tight confines of the space station. The studio had experience creating virtual reality films, but their typical camera was the size and shape of a four-foot-tall tree. That step required the team to start from scratch when it came to the camera. "We wanted to bring the viewer to the International Space Station to be alongside astronauts to experience the reality and challenges of life in microgravity and be part of the journey of learning to live and do science in space." "The natural next step was to actually take the viewer to space," says Felix and Paul Studios co-founder and creative director FĂ©lix Lajeunesse. The idea for the project came about after the studio worked on episodes of a virtual reality series called Space Explorers that showed astronauts training on Earth. The project, currently in the process of being filmed, serves as an outreach project as well a technology demonstration, testing the limits of filming in the harsh environment of space. Partnering with the ISS National Lab and Time, a team from Felix and Paul Studios launched a high quality 360 degree camera to space to help tell the story of science and life aboard the orbiting laboratory. The virtual reality (VR) project Hague was filming for, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience (ISS Experience), attempts to bring this perspective back to Earth for the rest of us. Only a few humans ever get to experience this unique vantage point. Within a minute, the module of the space station was bright again, this time from the natural light of the sun. The first orange light shot into the orbiting laboratory. With moments to spare, the camera was ready, the module was dark, and Hague positioned at the window of the JEM. To capture this moment, timing was everything as he worked diligently to set up the perfect camera shot. For this sunrise, though, the speed of their approach was putting a time crunch on Hague. Traveling 17,500 miles per hour, the space station orbits Earth 16 times in 24 hours, so every 90 minutes, the space station experiences a sunrise. With only minutes until sunrise aboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronaut Nick Hague rushed to shut off the lights in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM). The International Space Station Experience (ISS Experience) creates a virtual reality film documenting daily life aboard the space station. Image: A view of Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques setting up the Z-CAM V1 Pro Cinematic camera for the ISS Experience payload.
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