Press Release

360º Virtual Tour of Sedona

E-motion, a company from Springfield, Illinois, specializing in tourist Virtual Reality (VR) websites and VR Tours, is excited to be in partnership with Greg Retegan from Essence of Sedona. E-motion will be opening a "360° Virtual Reality Tour of Sedona" website late summer/early fall 2004. Truly capturing the awesome beauty of Sedona with its stunning spacious landscapes has been impossible until now. Internet and computer technology offer a way through VR Tours to show off Sedona like no printed media or video can. These high quality VR Tours start as a picture that almost fills the computer screen and move in a full 360° circle. They also have the ability to zoom in and out as if one were looking through binoculars.

"I am most excited about capturing the beauty of Sedona and making it accessible to the world," comments Mark Edwards of E-motion. "Our goal is to display the awesome beauty of Sedona through VR Tours and to build a website around them. The viewer will see an aerial view of Sedona and can zoom in on buttons that open VR Tours of not only the landscape but also the inside of shops, restaurants, galleries, resorts, hotels and about everything else that makes Sedona the treasure it is."

A unique feature will be the Virtual Walk in Uptown, Tlaquepaque, Hillside, Hozho, West Sedona and other shopping districts. The viewer will be able to walk up and down these districts by clicking within the VR tour itself. It will be possible to turn around, zoom in on a store and click to enter and see the inside VR Tour and then click on the door to return to the street. "Some of our VR websites get the average person returning more than five times, and about 6 percent of visitors are staying in the site from 1/2 hour to over an hour. These are phenomenal web statistics. We are making this affordable for everyone whether they are having us shoot a VR Tour or simply linking to our VR Sedona website," says Edwards, adding that "The first time someone sees our VR Tours they either respond with, ''Wow!' 'Cool!" or "Neat!" The tours are so entertaining."

For more information and to set an appointment for a presentation, contact Greg Retegan at 282-0610 Ext. 2.  E-motion will be adding a West Coast office in Prescott next fall and plans on covering the whole state of Arizona.