OpenView Luminous Virtual Windows

OpenView Compositions

Sky Factory’s Open View Compositions relax the mind, restoring mental focus and supporting emotional balance. Every one of our pristine nature scenes is captured with a single purpose—to provide a therapeutic change of scale in highly stressful, artificial or isolated places. In fact, biophilic illusions of nature are the only scenic nature imagery that employs an artistic framework based on neuroaesthetics.

Sky Factory’s Open View Landscapes feature 20+ compositional and structural cues, including the proper scale and vanishing point. These cues provide the observer with a view of extended space into a welcoming natural environment, creating the most credible illusion of a real window. 

Spatial Relief in Enclosed Interiors

Unlike representational landscape photography, our team of artists calibrate our images to capture the rich saturation and subtle hues inherent in a range of atmospheric conditions generating an illusory view that yields the restorative benefits of Prospect & Refuge. 

A visual connection to nature featuring prospect, the ability to see into the distance, as well as refuge, a place of comfort and safety, generates one of architecture’s most sought-after attributes in the built environment.

OpenView’s visual and spatial canvas transforms interiors—no matter how isolated or artificial–by introducing a dramatic change of scale and providing a welcome visual connection to a spatially credible landscape.

“When you come into a cardiac unit there are a lot of fears about what can happen to you. Sky Factory’s products bring the constant beauty of the natural elements—bright sun, great clouds, colorful leaves. They provide patients with a relaxing and beautiful environment, independent of what Mother Nature is actually doing outside.”

Dr. Jim Schroeder Director, Architectural Services
Mercy Medical Center, Dubuque

Focus Stack Photography: Stunning Detail

Focus stacking is a technique borrowed from macro photography where it is possible to create a deeper depth of field. This process involves capturing the same scene in multiple exposures at sequential focal points. When the photography is illuminated by calibrated daylight-quality LEDs at a realistic one-to-one scale, the imagery attains a captivating three-dimensional pull.

OpenView Features

Architectural Trim Styles

Luminous Virtual Windows feature a curated collection of true craftsmanship-quality trim styles for a genuine architectural finish.

Wild Landscape Photography

Sky Factory images are selected to generate spatial polarity, recess the perceived horizon line, and open up small areas.

Available in Modular Sizes

Sky Factory OpenView image panels are completely modular. OpenView image panels are available in 1 foot increments, from 2’x2′ to 5’x10′. Create a custom view to nature that seamlessly integrates into any environment.

Easy-to-Install

All our virtual window systems are designed to fit into commercial interior walls.

Calibrated LED Lighting System

We manufacture all LEDs for superior performance and precise Correlated Color Temperature (CCT), 6500K.

MRI Compatible

Sky Factory pioneered the first LED RF-free lighting for MRI environments. Our virtual windows work in any imaging suite.

OpenView Benefits

Alleviates Claustrophobia

OpenView Luminous Virtual Windows transform interiors by recessing the perceived horizon line, creating a prospect view that soothes patients in diagnostic and therapeutic settings.

Reduces Stress and Anxiety

Sky Factory’s properly scaled, deep stack photography infuses spaces with a change of visual scale that can dramatically change the feeling of a stressful interior.

Biophilic Wayfinding Solution

OpenView Luminous Virtual Windows serve as a visual landmark that can help visitors navigate their way around deep plan interiors.

Enhances Staff Wellbeing

An attractive environment of care plays a key role in retaining staff and raising job satisfaction, both of which boost better patient care.

Custom Solutions for Ceilings and Walls

Sky Factory offers scenic points-of-view of expansive landscapes, seascapes, and corresponding skyscapes. Our team of visual artists ensure color consistency within each Earth & Sky scene, offering beautiful vistas for the walls and ceiling in your project.