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Virtual Reality · Photogrammetry

Iconic Rock Climbing Locations in Virtual Reality

We captured real climbing crags across the Czech Republic and Norway and rebuilt them as explorable VR environments — real geology, scanned from the faces themselves.

Climbing is about reading rock — the exact pocket, the hairline crack, the way weight shifts onto a single fingertip. Recreate that faithfully in virtual reality and you have a training tool, a location scout, and an experience that puts a Norwegian wall in the middle of a Prague office.

We captured iconic climbing locations across the Czech Republic and Norway and rebuilt them as explorable VR environments — real geology, scanned from the faces themselves rather than modelled by hand. In the headset the routes keep the grain and geometry of the originals: the same features a climber would actually reach for, at the same scale and exposure.

The result is less a game than a digital twin of a crag — somewhere to scout a line, rehearse a sequence, or simply stand on a summit that would otherwise take a flight and a long approach to reach.

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