A living winter portrait of Megève, in miniature. It opens in a scenic flight at 10:30 under clear skies; this is how to take over.
Megève opens in a clean scenic flight, Drift through Megève: a summit reveal, a sweep down the pistes, then village life and the climb home, over about five minutes. It starts at 10:30 under clear skies with the day and night cycle running.
Touch the scene, or use the movement keys, and you take over from the drone. Show controls (top left) brings the panels back; Esc restores them from any mode.
Move at your own pace. Everything you can do with the camera, on a mouse, a keyboard or a touchscreen.
Explore Megève separates Places from Follow mountain life. Places are the whole mountain, the village and church square, the village ice rink, Le S the village bar, Petit Rochebrune, Grands Champs, the plateau de Caboche, the top of the Rochebrune cable car at 1,754 m, and the Super Megève restaurant.
Follow mountain life stays with the village bus, the Chamois gondola, the Caboche gondola, the red cable car, the Rocharbois cable car, or a skier from the lift to the next run.
Weather & light holds the clock and the weather. Slide the time of day, or pick morning, midday, evening or night. The day and night cycle takes about an hour for a day at 1×, with a slower evening; move the slider to hold a time. Use my local time follows your own clock.
Weather is part of the artwork, not a live forecast: clear skies, overcast, snowfall, or mountain mist.
The Piste map draws the green, blue and red runs and the lifts, Rochebrune at the top and the village below. Tap a place on it to fly there. The artwork counts eight working lifts and eleven piste sections.
More controls holds playback (1×, 2× or 4×), the view (reset it, turn the labels on or off, switch the language between English and French, go full screen), the sound volume, and the level of detail.
The soundscape is the wind on the mountain, skis, footsteps and lifts nearby, and a bell across the village. It starts with your first click or tap, if the browser needs one; Y turns it on and off.
Each of these opens the real artwork, already set up: the same file you collect, driven by the controls above.
