Bryan Alexander

USA TODAY

The most stunning view of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar to date is now available — through the immersive Oculus Rift Interstellar Experience.

The virtual Oculus Rift world was revealed on Monday in New York City and will travel throughout the country ahead of the film's opening Nov. 7.

The Oculus Rift experience allows participants to don high-tech headsets (known as the Oculus Rift development kit) to feel as if they are traveling, even floating in zero gravity through the Endurance spacecraft from the film.

Director Nolan donned the virtual headset himself.

"I was impressed with how the experience is able to put you in the cockpit of Interstellar's spaceship, The Endurance. It was just like being back on set," Nolan said in a statement.

Mike Woods, executive creative director of the effects house Framestore, says the Interstellar Oculus Rift experience is even "a considerable step up" from the Game of Thrones experience his company created this year to wide acclaim.

The project required a team of 15-20 people over the span of two months to painstakingly re-create the world and "the exact ship" from the movie.

It is so real that headset-wearing participants often reach for floating objects that are not truly present.

There is an even a far-off look of the wormhole viewed by stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain in the film that follows a group of explorers into uncharted space.

"This is as close a look of the Endurance as possible," says Megan Wahtera, senior vice president of interactive marketing for Paramount Pictures. "There are trailer and TV spots for the film. But there is not a truly immersive look. This allows you to experience it like nothing else."

Rather than focus on fan gatherings like Comic-Con, Wahtera says the countrywide tour will provide an opportunity for the mainstream public to try the Oculus Rift experience.

The tour will hit participating AMC IMAX theaters in New York, Houston, Los Angeles and the Washington, D.C. area. As part of the Oculus exhibit, the smaller Ranger ship from Interstellar will make its world-wide debut at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The exhibit will be open to the public Nov. 6-20.