Wow, okay, so here’s the scoop: Red Bull teamed up with Jonathan Griffith Productions and voilà, we’ve got this thing called “Touching the Sky” on Quest. Imagine wandering through the European Alps or gliding above the Himalayas in Pakistan without leaving your couch. Yep, it’s an hour-long documentary that throws you into the world of wingsuit base jumping and paragliding. Crazy, right?
They whipped up some custom 3D, 360-degree cameras for this. You get to tag along with Fred Fugen and Vincent Cotte doing their wingsuit thing in the Italian Dolomites. Fugen mentioned—maybe it was on Red Bull’s blog or somewhere—that freefalling with these cameras was bananas. Something about syncing up with drone pilots hanging out of helicopters. No big deal, just some casual life-risking coordination without much practice beforehand. I’m serious!
Then, there’s Aaron Durogati and Matthias Weger tackling the Pakistani Himalayas. Aaron was saying, the mountains there? Massive. Like, intimidatingly so. The thermal flows are not like what you’d find in the Alps. Something about being on your own out there, with sketchy rescue options. In the Alps, you’d probably get a rescue — no biggie.
Oh, and you can watch all this wildness for free on Meta Quest TV if you’ve got a Quest 2 headset or better. There’s also this behind-the-scenes bit that’s half an hour long. It peels back the curtain on what went into capturing this epicness. Kind of like seeing how the sausage is made, except it’s all dramatics and breathtaking views instead of, well, sausage.
So yeah, that’s the gist of it. This ride isn’t just about the visuals—there’s that heart-pounding feeling, like when the floor creaks in the middle of the night, but with more adrenaline and less, “Did I lock the door?” vibes. Wild stuff.
