So, imagine this: Red Bull and this wild production crew with Jonathan Griffith drop a new thing called “Touching the Sky” on Quest. It’s kinda like you’re in these epic scenes with wingsuit base jumpers in the Alps and a paragliding squad doing their crazy thing across the Himalayas in Pakistan. It’s an hour-long documentary, and wow, does it take you places.
They whipped up these custom 3D, 360-degree cameras. Like, can you even picture flying around with that? Anyway, you get to tag along with Fred Fugen and Vincent Cotte. These guys are just launching themselves off mountains in the Italian Dolomites. The stuff they pull off is insane.
Fred was chatting about it—somewhere on a Red Bull blog or whatever—and he goes into how nuts it was managing that camera in freefall. Like, the drone pilots were also in a helicopter? What even…?? They didn’t exactly get a ton of practice together, so it was a scramble to sync it all up, y’know? Not your everyday stuff, that’s for sure.
Then there’s this bit with Aaron Durogati and Matthias Weger taking on the Himalayas. Picture those mountains—huge, right? They’re trying to get as high and deep into the ranges as they can. Aaron said—and it stuck with me because why not?—flying in Pakistan’s nuts. Like, the thermals? Totally different from the Alps. He was saying if something goes wrong, it’s bad news bears since rescue’s a long shot compared to home turf in the Alps.
You can actually watch all this madness for free on Meta Quest TV. But, oh wait—it’s only for Quest 2 and up. Was that even mentioned? Anyway, you get the gist.
If that’s not enough behind-the-scenes action for you, Red Bull has another thirty-minute video showing how they pulled this off. Raw, unfiltered stuff that kinda leaves you wondering how on earth they did it.
The whole thing’s an adventure, though. And why anybody thought jumping off mountains with cameras was a sane plan… well, beats me.
