For ages, humankind has looked to space as the final frontier, and the film industry is no exception. Last year, it was reported that Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman were coordinating with NASA and SpaceX on a $200-million action-adventure shot aboard the International Space Station, while Russias Channel One TV is rushing to get its own cast and crew up there first for the October shoot of a secretive project called Challenge.But a pair of Canadian filmmakers beat both of them to the punch. Since January 2019, Felix & Paul, the VR studio launched by Montreal-based virtual reality directors Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael in 2013, have been assembling 360-degree footage shot on handmade cameras by 10 astronauts from a revolving crew.
With more than 200 hours of footage to date, the material has so far fueled the first two episodes of the four-part VR series Space Explorers: The Iss Experience. The result,