VIDEO: Silver Star Mountain Resort has a virtual reality museum

SILVER STAR – A virtual reality experience is now available at Silver Star Mountain Resort.

If you have never had the chance to try out a virtual reality experience you now have the option at the Silver Star Mountain Museum, a branch of the Vernon Museum and Archives.

The unique museum experience is available until Sept. 2.

Tim Bieber is a Vernon film producer who works in partnership with the CEO of HyperHippo Games, Lance Priebe, from Kelowna. Together the Okanagan-based duo run Evolved Reality, a virtual reality studio out of Vernon.

Bieber calls the exhibit, “a first of its kind interpretive VR museum experience.”

It includes a guided interactive multimedia app, a 10-minute 360 documentary about the establishment of the Silver Star Mountain Resort, digitally remastered archival film footage dating back to the 1950s and archival still images dating back to the 1930s.

“It’s kind of an interpretive app, to experience the museum in a 360, innovative new way," Bieber says.

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