Loren YbarrondoImmersive experience design + production
The experience
Virtual West Virginia is being rebuilt as a model for the future of tourism: a visitor can discover a place immersively, hear a podcast-style story in Loren’s voice, build an itinerary, and move from digital exploration to real-world navigation without leaving the experience.
01 / Challenge
Make the physical place make sense online.
Turn a geographically dispersed state—historic towns, state and national parks, museums, landscapes, bridges, trails, and local businesses—into one useful digital destination.
02 / Response
Design the visit, not just the interface.
Connect more than 170 captured locations through a custom West Virginia map, destination icons, Google Business Profiles and Street View, immersive previews, AI-assisted interpretation, planned 3D map tiles, and Google wayfinding that can carry visitors from inspiration to an actual trip.
03 / Result
Give every visitor a way into the story.
A demonstration of how immersive imaging, mobile maps, AI narration, and local-business discovery can become useful tourism infrastructure rather than a collection of isolated panoramas.
A closer view from the Virtual West Virginia experience
“A virtual tour should create the urge to explore one more room, open one more story, and look a little closer.”
— Loren Ybarrondo
What I did
Tourism experience strategy
Statewide 360° documentation
AI audio and interpretation planning
Google Maps and wayfinding integration
Experience features
More than 170 destination views
Custom state boundary and destination icons
Google Business Profile and Street View connections
Planned 3D mapping, audio stories, and trip discovery
