Next to writing own books and making own movies (which is both not easy, needing new ideas, money and actors), there's another interesting way: virtual reality. It would be great to virtual enter a (populated) one-room schoolhouse or the house of The Waltons.
Yesterday, I searched the web but found not much. First, I though about a Western town but with the term western you find different stuff. I then found a virtual museum about the dust bowl. (Also some good documentaries about dust bowl and more one-room schoolhouses, coming later this day).
There are some virtual one-room schoolhouses like this (street view like)
http://www.sjsu.edu/education/lcoe-alumni-community/lcoe-alumni-board-activities/one-room-schoolhouse/index.html
Another possibility, if you don't have a real location and don't want to use other stuff is a video game editor. Then you can walk and tilt everywhere fluently. Not much work (depending on the detail level).
I found a pic of "The Waltons - A virtual tour", computer graphics (deleted on YouTube) but this was probably just an empty house. There's also stuff for The Sims and
Second Life. And there are also farm video games but most with simple GFX and RPG with farm settings, but I don't know one-room schoolhouses or good characters in bibs.
Empty houses is one thing, but 360° views of people another one. You need actors or if you use scenes from movies, you will get trouble when publishing this. It's also lots of work. The next step would be holographics. Then you only need the smell. Maybe we should wait.
Pic 1 is from loc.gov (#2015630838, not VR), pic 2 from The Waltons, s3e10.
Please also note my previous post, I found during research. I also found the recent one-room schoolhouse post searching for VR.
