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Zero Gravity Experience Coming to Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly
Virtual reality exhibit featuring Oculus Rift DK2 will allow participants to tour spacecraft from Interstellar film.
Chantilly is one of the few places in the world where audiences will get to experience a “zero gravity-like” exhibit next month, called Oculus Rift DK2. (The only other places getting this experience are in L.A., New York and Houston.) Here’s more about it and it’s connection with a new film:
Paramount Pictures has partnered with IMAX® to create the Oculus Rift DK2. This virtual reality experience gives fans the opportunity to journey inside the Interstellar film and tour the Endurance spacecraft. This truly immersive exhibit enables visitors to feel like they are floating in zero gravity when wearing the special DK2 headsets. The exhibit will be free and open to the public starting Thursday, Nov. 6 through Nov. 20.
Interstellar stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow and Michael Caine. The premise of the film? With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: Traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars. Directed by Christopher Nolan, written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan, and produced by Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Lynda Obst.
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Coming Nov. 4 to the Airbus IMAX Theater at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and to the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater at the National Air and Space Museum. Check here for movie times.
The IMAX Experience® on 70mm film at Smithsonian Theaters
National Air and Space Museum and Udvar-Hazy Center theaters are the only theaters in the region to offer the true IMAX® experience on 70mm film which combines the brightest, clearest images at almost 10 times the resolution of 35mm film. Journey through space in our six-story screens and enjoy the stunning full frame shots in the world’s most immersive movie experience.
World Exclusive at Udvar-Hazy Center
The Ranger ship from Interstellar will make its world-wide debut at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly. Visitors will get an up-close view of the actual spacecraft built for the film. The exhibit will be free and open to the public Nov. 6 – 20.
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