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ēScape Digital Cinema Virtual Window

The immersive beauty of wild nature within reach

Sky Factory’s ēScape is a Digital Cinema Virtual Window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature to interior environments. Unlike televised nature content, ēScape’s feature-length footage is captured, composed, and framed with the look and feel of a genuine window view.

ēScape’s feature-length footage creates
the impression of a genuine landscape view.

EScape reception render with flowers es2070

The Benefits of a Visual Connection to Nature

According to environmental psychology, one of the most restorative features of an interior space is a visual connection to nature. ēScape enables isolated interiors to generate spatial polarity—a dramatic change of scale that provides Prospect and Refuge (a commanding view of a landscape from a place of comfort).

Sky Factory artists gathering eScape footage in Oregon.

ēScape Feature Length Scenes

Our library of Digital Cinema scenes are the only ones available in feature length (40+ minutes). Exposed to a longer running time and an unchanging point-of-view, the observer surrenders to the scene rather than exert focused attention, which edited, televised content demands.

Instead, the viewer’s behavior resonates with past experience when we gaze out a window and our mind is set adrift among thoughts and memories. This inner voyage leads to automatic relaxation, reflection, and repose.

Scenes

ēScape Full Length Scenes

Inca Falls, Cadillac Mountains: Acadia National Park, Maine

The peaceful and audible trickle of water along the this face of Cadillac Mountain Granite displays a wide range of textures on the oldest granite bodies (approx. 420 million years old) in Mount Desert Island. A feast of colorful texture, the fault lines in the stone, outlined in solid rectangular masses of granite, range from sunbaked sandstone to dark green bronze that glisten with sunlit speckles dancing over thin layers of algae. On the right, green-yellow lichen dots the granite as the wind buffets a treeline of Maine Spruce.

Length

93 minutes

Location

Acadia National Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2054

Ocean Notch on the New England Coast: Acadia National Park, Maine

Framing a distant seascape view, the jagged cliff line on Mount Desert Island reveals its rugged granite coastline. This crisp morning overlooks an ocean notch along the steep coastline where the roar of the tide, among the strongest in the world, shoots up the vertical rock wall and booms inland. Exposed to the coastal winds, Red and White Spruce, along with White Pine, dot the headland and distant inlets as the tide buffets the rocky shore. Down below, crushed by the surf, broken shells and the skeletons of crabs, mussels, sea urchins and other marine life churn among the pebble and sand detritus.

Length

84 minutes

Location

Acadia National Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2055

Screw Auger Falls with Birch Lines: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

A shallow strip of glacier meltwater runs over the granite bedrock in this quiet autumn morning. In the foreground, compressed into the ancient rock, narrow quartz lines mirror two equally thin and white trunks leaning towards each other upriver. The forest’s makeshift portal beautifully juxtaposes the homothetic (self-referral) growth of birch trees vis-à-vis the hydrothermal crystallization of mineral-rich fluids that precipitate vein formation in course-grained granite. Despite the chasm between temporal scales, the brook’s murmur echoes among the leaves of American Beech and Cherry Birch trees.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2064

Screw Auger Falls With Pool HD: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Overlooking the top of this 23-foot waterfall at Bear River, a crystal clear pool filled to the brim cascades down the rocks below. Above the grotto’s entrance, the weathered grooves in the rock wall are teeming with lichen and patches of green-brown and yellow-green moss. The pooling water reflects the morning sky and the branches hovering over the rock-cut basin. Underneath the crystal surface of the pool, pebbles and sand catch the angle of the sun, catching shadows and light underneath the rumble of gushing water.

Length

61 minutes

Location

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2065

Screw Auger Falls with Cave: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Take a seat next to the main plunge of Screw Auger Falls of Grafton Notch where this overlook captures the roar of whitewater as it falls from the broad granite ledge into the gorge below. After tumbling from the lip of the granite ledge, often trapping birch logs and other branches, Bear River’s foamy rush slows, meandering through giant boulders and deep pot holes, shallow pools and lichen-streaked grottoes as glacier melt drifts on through the rocky landscape. In the foreground, nascent Sweet Birch while across the chasm, a solitary Eastern White Pine sways in the wind.

Length

77 minutes

Location

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2062

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: High Desert Summer Clouds

A day in the life of sky above one of the world’s most remarkable escarpments. This one hour scene out of a seven-hour segment – noon to sunset – delivers a taste of life, just beneath the clouds of the Great Basin High Desert. The stately growth, dissolution and movement of summer clouds range from blue sky to threatening storm. The subtlety of the high altitude landscape is revealed by the changing pattern of cloud shadows and sunlight. A sentinel Belding’s ground squirrel periodically climbs up into a foreground sage for his own view of the day (and the camera crew). Beneath the slowly transforming sky, the dominant experience is one of remoteness, purity and silence.

Length

59 minutes

Scene ID

es010

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Little Blitzen River in Summer

Noon sunlight filters through the River birch canopy and sparkles on the peaceful creek as it gently streams by. Submerged rocks shape the current’s eddies and add soothing sounds. Occasionally birds call to each other from nearby trees.

Length

60 minutes

Scene ID

es011

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Outgoing Atlantic Ocean Tide

Sky Factory’s ēScape is a Digital Cinema Virtual Window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature to interior environments. Unlike televised nature content, ēScape’s feature-length footage is captured, composed, and framed with the look and feel of a genuine window view. Outgoing mid-day tide reveals a rock formation, sand and constantly changing patterns of waves and sea-foam. Overhead clouds, visible only in reflections on the wet sand, produce dramatic lighting changes. Waves of scintillating light appear on surfaces of water and wet sand. A distant lobster boat makes a brief appearance. Near and distant wave sounds are occasionally mixed with wind.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Maine, USA

Scene ID

es2030

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Little Popo Agie River

A cloudless summer day. Looking down-river, soft breezes rustle the foreground grasses and distant shrubs. Cliff swallows, nesting on the red sandstone rock face, fly above the river feeding on insects. Butterflies and dragonflies hover catching the warm winds of the late afternoon. A groundhog, a leaping Mule deer, and a diving Belted kingfisher make cameo appearances. In the background of river-sound, bird songs and the sounds of insects.

Length

102 minutes

Location

Location: Lander, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2031

Sky Factory ēScape Scene es2038 Summer Morning Skies

Sky Factory’s ēScape is a Digital Cinema Virtual Window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature to interior environments. Unlike televised nature content, ēScape’s feature-length footage is captured, composed, and framed with the look and feel of a genuine window view. Beginning with an early morning leaden sky that in most parts of the world would suggest impending rain, reinforced by distant rumbling thunder, the clouds steadily break up to reveal patches of blue sky and occasional streaks of virga – rain that evaporates before reaching the ground. Even as the sky becomes almost cloud-free, behind, the low, early sun is periodically obscured by moving clouds, causing a play of sunlight and deep shadow on the distant mountains, the intermediate ponderosa pines, and the sage and grass in the foreground. Wind in the grasses and sage and occasional cameo appearances of sparrows and hawks. Toward the end of the sequence, the clouds in the Southwest reflect the early morning rose color of cloud-filtered sunlight.

Length

79 minutes

Location

Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2038

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Upper Popo Agie Falls

In this sequence, the changing volume of the two waterfalls as they flow out over rock and into the pool below reveal the constant pulse and fluctuations of natural, uncontrolled water. The patterns of the falls are contrasted with the more dynamic, linked shadow-patterns of the wind-blown aspens on the foreground rocks. Occasional birds and insects and a cameo chipmunk appearance add yet another even more random pattern of life in the mountains.

Length

68 minutes

Location

Agie Falls

Scene ID

es2039

Screw Auger Falls Upper: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

A crisp autumn day at the Screw Auger Falls of Grafton Notch where glacier meltwater streams over course-grained granite boulders (pegmatite) with large masses of quartz, feldspar, and mica, along with metamorphic rocks. Beyond the waterfall, the eye drifts easily upstream, lost in the colorful turn of leaves among Conifers like Red Spruce and Eastern Hemlock sharing Bear River with Northern Hardwoods like American Beech and Yellow Birch whose leaves float down, lining the rock shore.

Length

61 minutes

Location

Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2063

Autumn Clouds, Mist and Fog: Basin Pond, New Hampshire

The sequence begins looking southwest on an early October morning. Low clouds, mist, and fog form in the distance and, moved by gentle winds, reveal a multi-layered landscape and sky with unimaginable combinations of the earth, water, air and light that bridge the space between earth and heaven.

Length

69 minutes

Location

New Hampshire

Scene ID

es2046

Summer Morning Squalls on Mistaya River, Canadian Rockies

The Mistaya River runs east of the Continental Divide. The consequent drama of morning light and shadow is displayed on the mountain slopes and reflected in the river’s surface. Patches of direct sunlight alternately reveal ridges, canyons, and other features which are then lost to deep shadow.

Length

118 minutes

Location

Mistaya River with view on Epaulette Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Scene ID

es2044

Summer Creek

Pools of dappled light reflect an otherwise unseen sky in this dark summer canopy. A small waterfall establishes the flow of clear water that reveals the motion of trees moving in the gentle and occasional breezes of an early summer day. The sound is that of continuous flowing water and singing birds.

Length

65 minutes

Location

Iowa

Scene ID

es2053

Early Summer Prairie Blazing Star

Filmed at a rare prairie remnant in Northwest Iowa, Prairie Blazing Star sways hypnotically in a gentle summer breeze. Coneflowers, sunflowers, the sound of insects, a visiting Red Admiral butterfly, birds coming and going in the distant willows, all combine for the experience of nature’s summer beauty.

Length

70 minutes

Location

Iowa

Scene ID

es2052

Late Summer Chamisa, New Mexico

A typical breezy New Mexico afternoon. The sky shifts slowly and only once do clouds cover the sun. In this late afternoon light, the moving shadows cast by nearby wind-blown Chamisa fall on the similarly moving blossoms we see and produce a complex pattern of moving light and color.

Length

79 minutes

Location

Jemez River near Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico

Scene ID

es2049

Midday Mountain Snow and Water

This sequence is a study in contrasts and dissolving boundaries. Steady snowfall contrasts with occasional swirls driven by windy gusts and eddies that suggest a more violent storm. Beneath the clear dark water are patches of snow-ice that change due to almost imperceptible melting during the course of the sequence.

Length

63 minutes

Location

Summit County, Colorado

Scene ID

es2048

Mountain Waterfall with Water Ouzels, Wyoming

Tucked behind the larger of these waterfalls is a Water Ouzel. Excellent swimmers, these small birds are seen throughout the sequence both hunting for aquatic insects and flying behind the falls to deliver this food to their young. Characteristically, they often bounce on a rock before making their move.

Length

73 minutes

Location

Popo Agie Falls, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2047

Afternoon Snowfall, Rocky Mountains

High in the Rocky Mountains we are immersed in the clouds of a three-day snowstorm. Snow falls in cycles from light to heavy with an occasional light wind that changes according to the storm’s progress through the rough terrain. All sound is absorbed by the snowy fir trees and covered ground.

Length

62 minutes

Location

Summit County, Colorado

Scene ID

es2045

Summer Afternoon Prairie Dog Village

This sequence begins with a prairie dog community being alerted to danger by incessant ‘barking’ from an off-screen guard. After the immediate danger leaves, things quiet down and normal life resumes. As time goes on, more than a dozen move above ground, one of whom always remains on alert as guard.

Length

60 minutes

Location

South Dakota

Scene ID

es2043

August Cloud Shadows: Mountain and Desert

From Steens Mountain, we look out over the Alvord Desert which, in the mountain’s rain-shadow, almost never receives moisture. Clouds form and cast their shadows on steep canyon walls. As the day progresses, cloud shadows extend into the desert creating a rich display of the constantly changing cycle.

Length

88 minutes

Location

Steens Mountain, Oregon

Scene ID

es2042

Early Morning above Peyto Lake: Canadian Rockies

Looking north, Peyto Lake and the entire valley are in deep shadow. Nonetheless, the lake reflects the blue of the clear overhead sky. When the lake is lit by direct sunlight its glacial-green color emerges. Cloud shadows slide down the slope but almost never manage to cross the lake surface before they dissolve.

Length

112 minutes

Location

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Scene ID

es2041

Albuquerque Balloon Festival

Favorable winds support the launch of hundreds of hot air balloons of all shapes, sizes, and colors into a clear blue sky. Gracefully moving up and to the east, mid-way through the sequence, the winds shift and balloons begin moving in all four directions as well as up and down.

Length

98 minutes

Location

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Scene ID

es2040

Marine Reef Aquarium

Coral reefs are lively with the fluid motion of marine life – tropical fish, coral, and invertebrates. Fish species include Blue Reef Chromis, Powder Blue Tang, Regal Angelfish, Yellow and Lipstick Tangs, Flame Angelfish, Emperor Angelfish, Ocellated Dragonet, and Copperbanded Butterflyfish.

Length

47 minutes

Scene ID

es2032

Tropical Crashing Surf

Three to four foot waves crash on a black lava-rock shore at high tide. On the horizon, Kilauea, Hawaii’s active volcano, creates a plume where flowing lava meets the ocean. Black crabs and a fishing boat make cameo appearances.

Length

48 minutes

Location

Oahu, Hawaii

Scene ID

es017

Autumn Slick-Rock River – Standing Wave & River Pulse

The Bear River flows over a section of eroded rock producing a standing wave. The foreground edge of the rock receives water from peak water levels only, thereby reflecting the pulsing nature of the river. Afternoon light changes according to cloud cover and to the sun’s angle through overhead trees.

Length

60 Minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es020

Reflecting Pool in Autumn

Wind-blown trees and clouds are reflected on a shallow pool. Beneath the water, currents move sunken leaves. Autumn leaves fall to the surface and are blown to and fro. There are about twelve different kinds of natural movements – many interacting simultaneously.

Length

72 minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es021

Bear River in Autumn

An intimate view of the moss-covered bank at an edge of Bear River. The multi-directional water flow is punctuated by occasional floating and tumbling maple and birch leaves. A windblown birch branch shades the bank. The sound of flowing water subtly changes with variations in water flow.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es023

Aspens at Honeymoon Lake

This high altitude lake which, like its namesake, will disappear within the month, is bordered by quaking aspen and Mule’s Ears sunflowers. One week ago, the foreground rocks were just visible above the lake surface. Birds frequently contribute their voices to the characteristic sounds of breeze-blown aspens.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Honeymoon Lake, Oregon

Scene ID

es014

Incoming Tide

Incoming morning tide washes drifting ocean kelps. Approaching waves pass beneath the observation point in the later portion of the sequence. 3 – 4 ft. waves crash on the sandy beach and rocks. Seagulls fly by and fish occasionally appear inside the waves.

Length

50 Minutes

Location

Georgetown Island, Maine

Scene ID

es027

Autumn Brook

Intimate, familiar, perhaps even nostalgic, this brook could almost be anywhere. Fresh from recent rain, the rapidly flowing water appears from a hidden source and leaves our view obscured by grasses. Through the delicately colored grasses and leaves we glimpse its bubbling surface and hear the clarity of its small sounds. Gusting wind, changing early morning light and occasional insects further animate this quiet, approachable world making it an extraordinary experience of the beauty that resides in small things.

Length

91 Minutes

Location

Acadia National Park, Maine

Scene ID

es028

Tropical Mid-Day Beach & Tree Shadows

A sunny day with distant clouds and mountains and the sound of gently lapping waves. Overhead trees cast their delicate shadow pattern on the sandy ocean bottom. Refraction and distortion, produced by the changing lens of transparent rippling waves, animate this pattern of shadow and light. Further, green and red floating leaves and tumbling coral show the influence of waves and currents. The sky above remains cloudless.

Length

60 Minutes

Location

North Shore Oahu, Hawaii

Scene ID

es006

Platte River in Winter

Fresh snowfall is seen blowing off the high mountain ridges into a pure blue sky while melting snow at lower elevations is beginning the annual spring melt. During the sequence, night surface ice melts as the river’s flow increases. The view up the Platte River valley, a classic landscape, is accented by the appearance of high cirrus clouds at the end of the sequence. The sound of water and occasional gusts of wind persist throughout.

Length

66 Minutes

Location

Summit County, Colorado

Scene ID

es2033

Summer Mountain Lake

On Wind River Peak in August, the remnant snow fields are illuminated with warm early morning light. As the sun moves higher, it gradually lights up distant forests and then trees on the far shore of the lake. Breezes pattern the lake with ripples and wavelets. The foreground rock shore reflects back the incoming waves creating delicate counterpoint patterns. Bird songs, slaps of jumping fish and chattering squirrels add liveliness to the soothing sounds of the lapping waves. Swallows and a Caspian Tern make cameo appearances.

Length

84 Minutes

Location

Wind River Peak, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2035

Moon Rise in Earth Shadow

In August, the full moon rises through the Belt of Venus, the subtly colored shadow cast by the earth in its own atmosphere. In the peaceful Limestone Mountains of Wyoming, the shadows cast by trees and mountain slowly lengthen and cool the warm, sun washed earth. Then, as the sun finally sets, the earth shadow rises in the eastern atmosphere – just as the moon appears from below the horizon. A few distant clouds reflect back the last color as the earth shadow expands and finally fades into the darkening sky of night. The chirping of crickets in the silence is occasionally interrupted with other insects, bird songs and distant jet aircraft.

Length

65 Minutes

Location

Wyoming

Scene ID

es2036

Summer Trout Pool

Ranging from deep shadow to full sunlight, the reflective rippling mountain pool reveals the constant activity of a school of sizable Rainbow and Brown trout. The surface of this otherwise silent world is punctuated by flashes of color combined with silhouettes and the occasional splash from a jump for insects. This sequence is a constantly changing view of the mysterious underwater life that lies beneath the surface – a world not commonly seen.

Length

56 Minutes

Location

Sinks Canyon, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2037

Storm Over Lake Lacey

Rain of varying strengths and patterns falls throughout most of the sequence. Changing wind direction and speed creates ripples and waves on the lake surface. Cloud-filtered sunlight creates dramatic shifts from dark to light. Low mist-clouds are blown across the far end of the lake. Occasional bird songs can be heard through the sound of rain.

Length

87 Minutes

Location

Lake Lacey, Iowa

Scene ID

es025

Late Summer Afternoon on Benson Pond

The serene water, land and sky are rich with wildlife; egrets, pelicans, ducks, coots, grebes, herons, Yellow-Headed and Red-Winged black birds, muskrats. The background silence is punctuated by near and distant bird calls. In fact, the background silence is a high pitched hum of mosquitoes! You will see some too.

Length

73 Minutes

Location

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon

Scene ID

es015

Tropical Sunset

The setting sun illuminates sets of three to five foot curling waves, which break on the shore and foreground lava rocks. Wet sand exposed by receding waves reflects the golden sunlight. High clouds colored rose by the last light of the sun fade to gray. The sun disappears below the horizon (after eleven minutes). Daylight, reflected on the shore, waves, and distant ocean, transitions into dusk. A distant surfer makes two cameo appearances.

Length

33 Minutes

Location

Oahu, Hawaii

Scene ID

es002

Screw Auger Falls, Bear River

The Bear River cascades over tumbled and eroded rock formations producing the lower end of Screw Auger Falls. Autumn colors become vibrant for a moment when the sun peeks through the cloud cover.

Length

75 Minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es026

Summer Alpine Brook

High above the tree-line, this July brook, which will disappear in August, is fed by melting snow. A moving cloud ceiling, only a few thousand feet above the land, produces changing patterns of light and shadow. The sound of the stream includes detailed notes of the foreground riffle. Although July, at this altitude it is still spring and the breeze ruffles the spring flowers.

Length

76 Minutes

Location

Steens Mountain, Oregon

Scene ID

es009

Inca Falls, Cadillac Mountains: Acadia National Park, Maine

The peaceful and audible trickle of water along the this face of Cadillac Mountain Granite displays a wide range of textures on the oldest granite bodies (approx. 420 million years old) in Mount Desert Island. A feast of colorful texture, the fault lines in the stone, outlined in solid rectangular masses of granite, range from sunbaked sandstone to dark green bronze that glisten with sunlit speckles dancing over thin layers of algae. On the right, green-yellow lichen dots the granite as the wind buffets a treeline of Maine Spruce.

Length

93 minutes

Location

Acadia National Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2054

Ocean Notch on the New England Coast: Acadia National Park, Maine

Framing a distant seascape view, the jagged cliff line on Mount Desert Island reveals its rugged granite coastline. This crisp morning overlooks an ocean notch along the steep coastline where the roar of the tide, among the strongest in the world, shoots up the vertical rock wall and booms inland. Exposed to the coastal winds, Red and White Spruce, along with White Pine, dot the headland and distant inlets as the tide buffets the rocky shore. Down below, crushed by the surf, broken shells and the skeletons of crabs, mussels, sea urchins and other marine life churn among the pebble and sand detritus.

Length

84 minutes

Location

Acadia National Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2055

Screw Auger Falls with Birch Lines: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

A shallow strip of glacier meltwater runs over the granite bedrock in this quiet autumn morning. In the foreground, compressed into the ancient rock, narrow quartz lines mirror two equally thin and white trunks leaning towards each other upriver. The forest’s makeshift portal beautifully juxtaposes the homothetic (self-referral) growth of birch trees vis-à-vis the hydrothermal crystallization of mineral-rich fluids that precipitate vein formation in course-grained granite. Despite the chasm between temporal scales, the brook’s murmur echoes among the leaves of American Beech and Cherry Birch trees.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2064

Screw Auger Falls With Pool HD: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Overlooking the top of this 23-foot waterfall at Bear River, a crystal clear pool filled to the brim cascades down the rocks below. Above the grotto’s entrance, the weathered grooves in the rock wall are teeming with lichen and patches of green-brown and yellow-green moss. The pooling water reflects the morning sky and the branches hovering over the rock-cut basin. Underneath the crystal surface of the pool, pebbles and sand catch the angle of the sun, catching shadows and light underneath the rumble of gushing water.

Length

61 minutes

Location

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2065

Screw Auger Falls with Cave: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Take a seat next to the main plunge of Screw Auger Falls of Grafton Notch where this overlook captures the roar of whitewater as it falls from the broad granite ledge into the gorge below. After tumbling from the lip of the granite ledge, often trapping birch logs and other branches, Bear River’s foamy rush slows, meandering through giant boulders and deep pot holes, shallow pools and lichen-streaked grottoes as glacier melt drifts on through the rocky landscape. In the foreground, nascent Sweet Birch while across the chasm, a solitary Eastern White Pine sways in the wind.

Length

77 minutes

Location

Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2062

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: High Desert Summer Clouds

A day in the life of sky above one of the world’s most remarkable escarpments. This one hour scene out of a seven-hour segment – noon to sunset – delivers a taste of life, just beneath the clouds of the Great Basin High Desert. The stately growth, dissolution and movement of summer clouds range from blue sky to threatening storm. The subtlety of the high altitude landscape is revealed by the changing pattern of cloud shadows and sunlight. A sentinel Belding’s ground squirrel periodically climbs up into a foreground sage for his own view of the day (and the camera crew). Beneath the slowly transforming sky, the dominant experience is one of remoteness, purity and silence.

Length

59 minutes

Scene ID

es010

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Little Blitzen River in Summer

Noon sunlight filters through the River birch canopy and sparkles on the peaceful creek as it gently streams by. Submerged rocks shape the current’s eddies and add soothing sounds. Occasionally birds call to each other from nearby trees.

Length

60 minutes

Scene ID

es011

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Outgoing Atlantic Ocean Tide

Sky Factory’s ēScape is a Digital Cinema Virtual Window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature to interior environments. Unlike televised nature content, ēScape’s feature-length footage is captured, composed, and framed with the look and feel of a genuine window view. Outgoing mid-day tide reveals a rock formation, sand and constantly changing patterns of waves and sea-foam. Overhead clouds, visible only in reflections on the wet sand, produce dramatic lighting changes. Waves of scintillating light appear on surfaces of water and wet sand. A distant lobster boat makes a brief appearance. Near and distant wave sounds are occasionally mixed with wind.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Maine, USA

Scene ID

es2030

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Little Popo Agie River

A cloudless summer day. Looking down-river, soft breezes rustle the foreground grasses and distant shrubs. Cliff swallows, nesting on the red sandstone rock face, fly above the river feeding on insects. Butterflies and dragonflies hover catching the warm winds of the late afternoon. A groundhog, a leaping Mule deer, and a diving Belted kingfisher make cameo appearances. In the background of river-sound, bird songs and the sounds of insects.

Length

102 minutes

Location

Location: Lander, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2031

Sky Factory ēScape Scene es2038 Summer Morning Skies

Sky Factory’s ēScape is a Digital Cinema Virtual Window that brings the dynamic beauty of nature to interior environments. Unlike televised nature content, ēScape’s feature-length footage is captured, composed, and framed with the look and feel of a genuine window view. Beginning with an early morning leaden sky that in most parts of the world would suggest impending rain, reinforced by distant rumbling thunder, the clouds steadily break up to reveal patches of blue sky and occasional streaks of virga – rain that evaporates before reaching the ground. Even as the sky becomes almost cloud-free, behind, the low, early sun is periodically obscured by moving clouds, causing a play of sunlight and deep shadow on the distant mountains, the intermediate ponderosa pines, and the sage and grass in the foreground. Wind in the grasses and sage and occasional cameo appearances of sparrows and hawks. Toward the end of the sequence, the clouds in the Southwest reflect the early morning rose color of cloud-filtered sunlight.

Length

79 minutes

Location

Medicine Bow Mountains, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2038

Sky Factory ēScape Scene: Upper Popo Agie Falls

In this sequence, the changing volume of the two waterfalls as they flow out over rock and into the pool below reveal the constant pulse and fluctuations of natural, uncontrolled water. The patterns of the falls are contrasted with the more dynamic, linked shadow-patterns of the wind-blown aspens on the foreground rocks. Occasional birds and insects and a cameo chipmunk appearance add yet another even more random pattern of life in the mountains.

Length

68 minutes

Location

Agie Falls

Scene ID

es2039

Screw Auger Falls Upper: Grafton Notch State Park, Maine

A crisp autumn day at the Screw Auger Falls of Grafton Notch where glacier meltwater streams over course-grained granite boulders (pegmatite) with large masses of quartz, feldspar, and mica, along with metamorphic rocks. Beyond the waterfall, the eye drifts easily upstream, lost in the colorful turn of leaves among Conifers like Red Spruce and Eastern Hemlock sharing Bear River with Northern Hardwoods like American Beech and Yellow Birch whose leaves float down, lining the rock shore.

Length

61 minutes

Location

Notch State Park, Maine

Scene ID

es2063

Autumn Clouds, Mist and Fog: Basin Pond, New Hampshire

The sequence begins looking southwest on an early October morning. Low clouds, mist, and fog form in the distance and, moved by gentle winds, reveal a multi-layered landscape and sky with unimaginable combinations of the earth, water, air and light that bridge the space between earth and heaven.

Length

69 minutes

Location

New Hampshire

Scene ID

es2046

Summer Morning Squalls on Mistaya River, Canadian Rockies

The Mistaya River runs east of the Continental Divide. The consequent drama of morning light and shadow is displayed on the mountain slopes and reflected in the river’s surface. Patches of direct sunlight alternately reveal ridges, canyons, and other features which are then lost to deep shadow.

Length

118 minutes

Location

Mistaya River with view on Epaulette Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Scene ID

es2044

Summer Creek

Pools of dappled light reflect an otherwise unseen sky in this dark summer canopy. A small waterfall establishes the flow of clear water that reveals the motion of trees moving in the gentle and occasional breezes of an early summer day. The sound is that of continuous flowing water and singing birds.

Length

65 minutes

Location

Iowa

Scene ID

es2053

Early Summer Prairie Blazing Star

Filmed at a rare prairie remnant in Northwest Iowa, Prairie Blazing Star sways hypnotically in a gentle summer breeze. Coneflowers, sunflowers, the sound of insects, a visiting Red Admiral butterfly, birds coming and going in the distant willows, all combine for the experience of nature’s summer beauty.

Length

70 minutes

Location

Iowa

Scene ID

es2052

Late Summer Chamisa, New Mexico

A typical breezy New Mexico afternoon. The sky shifts slowly and only once do clouds cover the sun. In this late afternoon light, the moving shadows cast by nearby wind-blown Chamisa fall on the similarly moving blossoms we see and produce a complex pattern of moving light and color.

Length

79 minutes

Location

Jemez River near Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico

Scene ID

es2049

Midday Mountain Snow and Water

This sequence is a study in contrasts and dissolving boundaries. Steady snowfall contrasts with occasional swirls driven by windy gusts and eddies that suggest a more violent storm. Beneath the clear dark water are patches of snow-ice that change due to almost imperceptible melting during the course of the sequence.

Length

63 minutes

Location

Summit County, Colorado

Scene ID

es2048

Mountain Waterfall with Water Ouzels, Wyoming

Tucked behind the larger of these waterfalls is a Water Ouzel. Excellent swimmers, these small birds are seen throughout the sequence both hunting for aquatic insects and flying behind the falls to deliver this food to their young. Characteristically, they often bounce on a rock before making their move.

Length

73 minutes

Location

Popo Agie Falls, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2047

Afternoon Snowfall, Rocky Mountains

High in the Rocky Mountains we are immersed in the clouds of a three-day snowstorm. Snow falls in cycles from light to heavy with an occasional light wind that changes according to the storm’s progress through the rough terrain. All sound is absorbed by the snowy fir trees and covered ground.

Length

62 minutes

Location

Summit County, Colorado

Scene ID

es2045

Summer Afternoon Prairie Dog Village

This sequence begins with a prairie dog community being alerted to danger by incessant ‘barking’ from an off-screen guard. After the immediate danger leaves, things quiet down and normal life resumes. As time goes on, more than a dozen move above ground, one of whom always remains on alert as guard.

Length

60 minutes

Location

South Dakota

Scene ID

es2043

August Cloud Shadows: Mountain and Desert

From Steens Mountain, we look out over the Alvord Desert which, in the mountain’s rain-shadow, almost never receives moisture. Clouds form and cast their shadows on steep canyon walls. As the day progresses, cloud shadows extend into the desert creating a rich display of the constantly changing cycle.

Length

88 minutes

Location

Steens Mountain, Oregon

Scene ID

es2042

Early Morning above Peyto Lake: Canadian Rockies

Looking north, Peyto Lake and the entire valley are in deep shadow. Nonetheless, the lake reflects the blue of the clear overhead sky. When the lake is lit by direct sunlight its glacial-green color emerges. Cloud shadows slide down the slope but almost never manage to cross the lake surface before they dissolve.

Length

112 minutes

Location

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Scene ID

es2041

Albuquerque Balloon Festival

Favorable winds support the launch of hundreds of hot air balloons of all shapes, sizes, and colors into a clear blue sky. Gracefully moving up and to the east, mid-way through the sequence, the winds shift and balloons begin moving in all four directions as well as up and down.

Length

98 minutes

Location

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Scene ID

es2040

Marine Reef Aquarium

Coral reefs are lively with the fluid motion of marine life – tropical fish, coral, and invertebrates. Fish species include Blue Reef Chromis, Powder Blue Tang, Regal Angelfish, Yellow and Lipstick Tangs, Flame Angelfish, Emperor Angelfish, Ocellated Dragonet, and Copperbanded Butterflyfish.

Length

47 minutes

Scene ID

es2032

Tropical Crashing Surf

Three to four foot waves crash on a black lava-rock shore at high tide. On the horizon, Kilauea, Hawaii’s active volcano, creates a plume where flowing lava meets the ocean. Black crabs and a fishing boat make cameo appearances.

Length

48 minutes

Location

Oahu, Hawaii

Scene ID

es017

Autumn Slick-Rock River – Standing Wave & River Pulse

The Bear River flows over a section of eroded rock producing a standing wave. The foreground edge of the rock receives water from peak water levels only, thereby reflecting the pulsing nature of the river. Afternoon light changes according to cloud cover and to the sun’s angle through overhead trees.

Length

60 Minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es020

Reflecting Pool in Autumn

Wind-blown trees and clouds are reflected on a shallow pool. Beneath the water, currents move sunken leaves. Autumn leaves fall to the surface and are blown to and fro. There are about twelve different kinds of natural movements – many interacting simultaneously.

Length

72 minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es021

Bear River in Autumn

An intimate view of the moss-covered bank at an edge of Bear River. The multi-directional water flow is punctuated by occasional floating and tumbling maple and birch leaves. A windblown birch branch shades the bank. The sound of flowing water subtly changes with variations in water flow.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es023

Aspens at Honeymoon Lake

This high altitude lake which, like its namesake, will disappear within the month, is bordered by quaking aspen and Mule’s Ears sunflowers. One week ago, the foreground rocks were just visible above the lake surface. Birds frequently contribute their voices to the characteristic sounds of breeze-blown aspens.

Length

60 minutes

Location

Honeymoon Lake, Oregon

Scene ID

es014

Incoming Tide

Incoming morning tide washes drifting ocean kelps. Approaching waves pass beneath the observation point in the later portion of the sequence. 3 – 4 ft. waves crash on the sandy beach and rocks. Seagulls fly by and fish occasionally appear inside the waves.

Length

50 Minutes

Location

Georgetown Island, Maine

Scene ID

es027

Autumn Brook

Intimate, familiar, perhaps even nostalgic, this brook could almost be anywhere. Fresh from recent rain, the rapidly flowing water appears from a hidden source and leaves our view obscured by grasses. Through the delicately colored grasses and leaves we glimpse its bubbling surface and hear the clarity of its small sounds. Gusting wind, changing early morning light and occasional insects further animate this quiet, approachable world making it an extraordinary experience of the beauty that resides in small things.

Length

91 Minutes

Location

Acadia National Park, Maine

Scene ID

es028

Tropical Mid-Day Beach & Tree Shadows

A sunny day with distant clouds and mountains and the sound of gently lapping waves. Overhead trees cast their delicate shadow pattern on the sandy ocean bottom. Refraction and distortion, produced by the changing lens of transparent rippling waves, animate this pattern of shadow and light. Further, green and red floating leaves and tumbling coral show the influence of waves and currents. The sky above remains cloudless.

Length

60 Minutes

Location

North Shore Oahu, Hawaii

Scene ID

es006

Platte River in Winter

Fresh snowfall is seen blowing off the high mountain ridges into a pure blue sky while melting snow at lower elevations is beginning the annual spring melt. During the sequence, night surface ice melts as the river’s flow increases. The view up the Platte River valley, a classic landscape, is accented by the appearance of high cirrus clouds at the end of the sequence. The sound of water and occasional gusts of wind persist throughout.

Length

66 Minutes

Location

Summit County, Colorado

Scene ID

es2033

Summer Mountain Lake

On Wind River Peak in August, the remnant snow fields are illuminated with warm early morning light. As the sun moves higher, it gradually lights up distant forests and then trees on the far shore of the lake. Breezes pattern the lake with ripples and wavelets. The foreground rock shore reflects back the incoming waves creating delicate counterpoint patterns. Bird songs, slaps of jumping fish and chattering squirrels add liveliness to the soothing sounds of the lapping waves. Swallows and a Caspian Tern make cameo appearances.

Length

84 Minutes

Location

Wind River Peak, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2035

Moon Rise in Earth Shadow

In August, the full moon rises through the Belt of Venus, the subtly colored shadow cast by the earth in its own atmosphere. In the peaceful Limestone Mountains of Wyoming, the shadows cast by trees and mountain slowly lengthen and cool the warm, sun washed earth. Then, as the sun finally sets, the earth shadow rises in the eastern atmosphere – just as the moon appears from below the horizon. A few distant clouds reflect back the last color as the earth shadow expands and finally fades into the darkening sky of night. The chirping of crickets in the silence is occasionally interrupted with other insects, bird songs and distant jet aircraft.

Length

65 Minutes

Location

Wyoming

Scene ID

es2036

Summer Trout Pool

Ranging from deep shadow to full sunlight, the reflective rippling mountain pool reveals the constant activity of a school of sizable Rainbow and Brown trout. The surface of this otherwise silent world is punctuated by flashes of color combined with silhouettes and the occasional splash from a jump for insects. This sequence is a constantly changing view of the mysterious underwater life that lies beneath the surface – a world not commonly seen.

Length

56 Minutes

Location

Sinks Canyon, Wyoming

Scene ID

es2037

Storm Over Lake Lacey

Rain of varying strengths and patterns falls throughout most of the sequence. Changing wind direction and speed creates ripples and waves on the lake surface. Cloud-filtered sunlight creates dramatic shifts from dark to light. Low mist-clouds are blown across the far end of the lake. Occasional bird songs can be heard through the sound of rain.

Length

87 Minutes

Location

Lake Lacey, Iowa

Scene ID

es025

Summer Aspens and Flowers

Quaking aspen, nodding Indian paintbrush, swaying sage brush, shifting shadows and distant clouds record a place where wind is almost always present. Occasional bird songs appear through the sounds of wind and rustling leaves.

Length

79 Minutes

Location

Steens Mountain, Oregon

Scene ID

es012

Late Summer Afternoon on Benson Pond

The serene water, land and sky are rich with wildlife; egrets, pelicans, ducks, coots, grebes, herons, Yellow-Headed and Red-Winged black birds, muskrats. The background silence is punctuated by near and distant bird calls. In fact, the background silence is a high pitched hum of mosquitoes! You will see some too.

Length

73 Minutes

Location

Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon

Scene ID

es015

Tropical Sunset

The setting sun illuminates sets of three to five foot curling waves, which break on the shore and foreground lava rocks. Wet sand exposed by receding waves reflects the golden sunlight. High clouds colored rose by the last light of the sun fade to gray. The sun disappears below the horizon (after eleven minutes). Daylight, reflected on the shore, waves, and distant ocean, transitions into dusk. A distant surfer makes two cameo appearances.

Length

33 Minutes

Location

Oahu, Hawaii

Scene ID

es002

Screw Auger Falls, Bear River

The Bear River cascades over tumbled and eroded rock formations producing the lower end of Screw Auger Falls. Autumn colors become vibrant for a moment when the sun peeks through the cloud cover.

Length

75 Minutes

Location

Bear River, Maine

Scene ID

es026

Summer Alpine Brook

High above the tree-line, this July brook, which will disappear in August, is fed by melting snow. A moving cloud ceiling, only a few thousand feet above the land, produces changing patterns of light and shadow. The sound of the stream includes detailed notes of the foreground riffle. Although July, at this altitude it is still spring and the breeze ruffles the spring flowers.

Length

76 Minutes

Location

Steens Mountain, Oregon

Scene ID

es009

OceanMed3 2 eScape

One of our radiation patients was sitting in front of the eScape and said she felt that hearing and watching it put her in a totally different place where she felt like she was sitting on the beach herself.

Joyce Schauberger, Director, Texas Oncology Austin

Features

Sky Factory ēScape Features

Restorative Landscape Scenes

Each unit features 8+ hours of unedited, feature-length dynamic scenes. ēScape’s unique vertically-composed footage cannot be found anywhere else.

Maintenance-free Operation

Our Digital Cinema monitors are rated for commercial usage, engineered to withstand prolonged operation (24/7 in many applications) for many years.

Diverse, Wild Landscapes

Our extensive library includes mountains, waterfalls, shorelines, streams and rivers, wildlife, and habitats in artfully composed master sequences.

Elegant Trim Options

Essential to this immersive experience is the architectural context provided by the window frame around the unit. Select from several wood types or aluminum trim.

Fast, Efficient Installation

Recess ēScape’s self-contained system 4 inches [10cm] into the wall and anchor its steel mounting pan for a durable, professional installation.

Build your Digital Library

Build your collection of scenic natural landscapes. Available blocks of 4 hours, up to 16 hours of UHD content. Contact us for details.

Details

How ēScape Digital Virtual Windows Work

How eScape Works Exploded

1. Perimeter Trim

Several trim styles and materials are available to complement any room décor.

2. 4K Monitor

Industrial-grade, 4K monitor for commercial use.

3. Mounting Pan

Durable and easy to install, the mounting pan houses the monitor and all the components for a safe and quick assembly.

4. Rough Opening

Model 4123 and 4726 will fit a standard 2” x 4” (5cm x 10cm) stud wall.

5. Wall-Mounted Controller

Easy to use 8-button controller with on-screen guidance and a user-friendly menu.

Benefits

ēScape Digital Cinema Virtual Window Benefits

Reduces Stress and Anxiety

Mitigates the distress caused by exams, long waiting times, and the uncertainty associated with visits to the doctor.

Bypass Code Restrictions

Delivers the therapeutic benefits of a visual connection to nature in secure areas where government or building codes restrict window openings.

Builds Rapport with Patients

The serene but lively landscape vistas enable caregivers to start a friendly dialogue with patients. ēScape also delivers a memorable welcome to your space.

Durable Biophilic Design

Offers relaxing access to undisturbed, open landscapes in a single and architecturally-sound window perspective.  

Product Pricing and Information

Trim Styles

ēScape Digital Virtual Window Trim Styles

A variety of trim styles are available to customize Luminous Virtual Windows.

Classic Trim EScape Classic

Classic

Arts and Crafts Trim EScape AC

Arts & Crafts

Aluminum Trim LVW Aluminum

Aluminum

Line drawing Contemporary EScape Contemporary

Contemporary

Classic is available in these finishes:
Cherry
Cherry
Hard maple
Hard Maple
Pine
Pine
Red oak
Red Oak
Walnut
Walnut
White oak
White Oak
Primed poplar
White Primed Poplar
Unfinished maple
Unfinished Maple
Arts & Crafts is available in these finishes:
Cherry
Cherry
Hard maple
Hard Maple
Pine
Pine
Red oak
Red Oak
Walnut
Walnut
White oak
White Oak
Primed poplar
White Primed Poplar
Unfinished maple
Unfinished Maple
Aluminum is available in these finishes:
Aluminum
Brushed Anodized Clear Finish
Black aluminum
Brushed Anodized Black Finish
Contemporary is available in these finishes:
Cherry
Cherry
Hard maple
Hard Maple
Pine
Pine
Red oak
Red Oak
Walnut
Walnut
Unfinished maple
Unfinished Maple
White oak
White Oak
Primed poplar
White Primed Poplar
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Sizes

ēScape Virtual Window Sizes

Model 4123

41” x 23” (104cm x 58.4cm)

Optimal viewing distance: 6ft (1.83m)
Minimum viewing distance: 4ft (1.21m)

Model 4726

47” x 26” (119.4cm x 66cm)

Optimal viewing distance: 8ft (2.44m)
Minimum viewing distance: 5ft (1.52m)

EScape Size

Resources

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Buyer’s Guide & Technical Specifications

ēScape Buyer’s Guide
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ēScape Digital Virtual Window Technical Specifications

ēScape Model 4123
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Guide Specifications

ēScape Guide Specifications
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Installation Instructions

Sky Factory ēScape Digital Virtual Windows are shipped with installation instructions. If you need additional copies, contact our technical support team.

Warranty & Maintenance

ēScape Warranty
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