Storyclock – The effort to bring Montana to the masses via virtual reality

Geoffrey Pepos (Storyclock http://storyclock.me/storyclock-vr/ ) works on VR scenarios with Tim Lewis, an entrepreneur who’s been building interactive virtual tours for Montana businesses with Google street-view technology.

Lewis received a grant through the Montana Film Office for his company InsideMT, which creates immersive experience for marketing, entertainment and education. With the money, Lewis and Pepos are working on seven different virtual scenarios based in Montana. Using GoPro cameras, they travel into the real world and capture images of a place from several different angles. In the fall, they shot a calm day at Ninepipes when the leaves were bright orange.

A few weeks ago, Lewis went to Big Sky for fly-fishing footage. Pepos will supplement the real photography with computerized imagery adding a flock of snow geese, for example, to the Ninepipes scene.

"There’s a reason we live here in Montana," he says. "And other people can experience that. I imagine a kid in New York City who’s never seen the stars and we put him in Glacier Lake Missoula–even though it’s not real–and have him look up and so then he can see the moon."

By Erika Fredrickson

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