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France Télévisions and La Vingt-Cinquième Heure have developed an immersive 360° virtual reality experience to accompany Thomas Pesquet on his journey and experience with him his training and mission in the ISS, the International Space Station. This project is proposed jointly by the New Writing and Innovation departments of France Télévisions.
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Relive Thomas Pesquet's space odyssey thanks to a free application, made from never-before-seen images shot by Thomas Pesquet, that lets you relive his 360° journey in virtual reality.
The application is available on Google's PlayStore:Thomas Pesquet VR ⬇️et on the AppStore: In the skin of Thomas Pesquet ⬇️
To take full advantage of it, it is nevertheless necessary to have a cardbord, such as the one from Google for example, or an RV helmet.
The VR application "Dans la peau de Thomas Pesquet" won the prize for Best Immersive Creation (360°, VR, Augmented Reality) at the SMA Awards 2018.
France Télévisions teamed up with its audience to co-create an innovative experience
For the first time, on March 14, 2018, around fifty viewers from France Télévisions took part in the beta-testing of the 360° application "Thomas Pesquet: in the skin of an astronaut".
Viewers sat down with the crew at the top of the rocket in the Soyuz capsule to experience the launch, journey and arrival in the station. Then Thomas Pesquet took them on a tour of the station... with a few surprises, ending with a spacewalk and experiencing the sensations that astronauts experience physically and psychologically.
During this test, the participants answered a questionnaire whose results can be taken into account to adjust the films, and shared with you on this platform.
Une application pour le grand public
Using real-life images, available on the site and on the iOS and Android mobile apps, each of us can experience the training and the expedition that took place from November 17, 2016 to June 2, 2017: from the NASA training center in Houston, to the launch of the Soyuz capsule, to its mission in the ISS (the International Space Station), to Thomas Pesquet's spacewalks. The production company "La vingt-cinquième heure", in collaboration with the European Space Agency and NASA, has indeed accompanied the astronaut since the announcement of Thomas Pesquet's spacewalk. The Frenchman, who is at the cutting edge of technology, also filmed at length his life in the ISS as well as the earth seen from the Space Station in orbit around our planet.
A first immersive film is dedicated to Thomas Pesquet's preparation and training for his stay in Space and life without gravity. From the impressive centrifuge sessions to the training in the pool, we will discover in total immersion the daily life of an astronaut preparing for Space. The second part of the RV experiment and its binaural is dedicated to the launch from the Russian cosmodrome, the exploration of the ISS and a spacewalk.
Thanks to the 360° images, the viewers can then experience for themselves the very powerful feeling that the astronauts all tell about their return to Earth, this feeling of being an integral part of the cosmos and feeling the fragility of our biosphere by encompassing the whole of our planet with one look!
The promise of an intense emotional and sensational experience, without equivalent in terms of immersion. Being truly "In the skin of an astronaut".
Préparez votre voyage !
Grâce aux plus de 1 700 clichés de l’ISS pris par Thomas Pesquet, 70 vues panoramiques ont été réalisées en visite virtuelle fixe par google street view :
