Hey, so this is probably gonna sound a bit all over the place, but that’s kinda the point, right? Anyway, Red Bull and Jonathan Griffith Productions just unleashed this wild ride of a doc called Touching the Sky on Quest. It’s like, buckle up and follow these insane wingsuit base jumpers in the European Alps, and oh yeah, a paragliding team soaring across the Himalayas in Pakistan. It’s an hour-long, immersive kinda deal.
Picture this: they’ve got these custom-built 3D, 360 cameras, and you’re basically sharing the skies with these daredevils, Fred Fugen and Vincent Cotte. They fly you through the Italian Dolomites—twice! Fugen was rambling in a Red Bull blog about the craziness of freefalling with this intense camera rig. Something about syncing with drone pilots in helicopters—like, talk about teamwork. They barely had time to train together, so it was like, let’s hope for the best!
And then — boom, switch gears. You’ve got Aaron Durogati and Matthias Weger paragliding over the towering peaks of the Pakistani Himalayas. Aaron’s all “Flying in Pakistan is another beast. These mountains are no joke.” He went on about these unique thermal flows that aren’t like the Alps at all. If stuff goes south, you’re on your own out there. No choppers swooping in like back home.
Oh, you can watch this whole shebang for free on Meta Quest TV, but only if you’re rocking a Quest 2 or something newer. And hey, if you’re curious about the nuts and bolts behind all this, Red Bull’s got a thirty-minute behind-the-scenes vid. Kinda cool to see how they captured everything. It’s raw, like peeling back the curtain on this epic production.
So yeah, if you’re all about that adventurous spirit, maybe give it a look. Or not. Up to you.
