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How an earthquake led me to a VR startup

TRANSFORMER Bryn Mooser saw cell-phone towers in remote Africa as a “sign that technology was going to happen really fast in places maybe we weren’t thinking about.”

Bryn Mooser | Ryot → Immersive media production

Bryn Mooser is the co-founder of Ryot Films, which produces media for immersive formats like virtual reality and 360-degree video. He started thinking about transformative technology while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa, living on the edge of the Sahel in a region that had cell-phone towers–but had never had landlines. Ryot initially published news stories that enabled readers to take social actions, and then pivoted into immersive video. In

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