FAQs
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Q: How Can I view A Road Through the Wild?
You can view A Road Through the Wild on different platforms. You can view it on the main page of this site or through the WondaVR app available on iOS and Google Play Store.
Q: Why won’t the experience start on my browser?
The best browser’s for viewing A Road Through the Wild are Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. However, sometimes even on Chrome it has trouble starting, so I recommend Firefox for the best experience. If you are a diehard Chrome user, then when the experience begins simply drag the marker on the timeline over a bit and it should start automatically playing.
Q: What did you use to make the experience?
I used a combination of different pieces of software and film equipment to create A Road Through the Wild. To film, I used the 360rize 10-GoPro Rig. To stitch I used AutoPano Visual until it was no longer supported by GoPro at which I then switched to Mistika VR. In addition to the stitching software, I also used Adobe Premiere, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve. After all the pieces were created, I put the experience together using WondaVR.
As cool as it would have been to use a drone, I did not have the means to purchase nor rent one to support a 360-camera. Rather, the maps are made by using After Effects and a combination of plugins such as GeoLayers 2 and Mettle Freeform Pro.
Q: How did you make those 360 aerial maps? Did you use a drone?
Q:How did you find all your information you included?
My bachelor’s degree is in history from which I learned how to research. Most of the information I found through guidebooks about the region such as one’s specifically about the high way and others about hiking trails. I also used geology books about the region as well as the Montana State University library about more specific topics such as alpine tundras. Photographs I used are from Open Parks Network, local museums and reaching out to specific collections mentioned in said guidebooks.
This was slightly done on purpose for a few reasons. 1) The software to piece it together does not have a way to indicate to users where they’ve been. 2) I was concerned that having a system to mark where users have been would distract the user from the experience. 3) I want it to be about the journey, not the destination. If there are markers to indicate every location a user visited, and they visited all of them would they come back? Ideally, I want users to come back to have new experiences, to explore and find things they missed the first time. I would also ideally like to keep adding new locations.