The livestream was live and within seconds, more than 3.2 billion standard viewers found themselves, once again staring at a sight that should have been impossible.
The feed opened on a desolate rust-red landscape stretching to the horizon, punctuated by rocks and ancient impact craters. The sky overhead was a pale butterscotch color that no Earth sky had ever been.
For the five thousand Lucid users, the experience was exponentially more intense.
They stood on the surface of Mars. The ground beneath their feet felt solid despite being digital projection. The thin atmosphere, the reduced gravity, the alien wrongness of being on another planet—all of it translated through the immersion with unsettling completeness.
