A virtual mushroom-foraging trail through the forests of Soria, on ten headsets across the city’s tourist offices
Soria City Council · Mycotour European project
A mushroom tourism experience in virtual reality
Filmed in 360º with real footage of Soria’s forests
Ten headsets installed across the tourism centres
Bring mushroom tourism to Soria’s visitors without their having to head into the woods. The idea, in the words of Tourism Councillor Yolanda Santos, is to «create the need» to go and see the forest in person.
The mushroom season is short and depends on the weather. A 360º experience can show the beech and pine woods at their best on any day of the year, and explain along the way how to forage without damaging the habitat, which is hard to get across in a leaflet.
A virtual mushroom trail of some seven to eight minutes, using real footage of Soria’s forests, running on ten virtual reality headsets installed at the city’s tourism centres, El Fielato and the Tourist Office.
The route combines the 360º film with profiles of the main species — king oyster, black trumpet and others — giving habitat, season and edibility, plus a section on good practice for foraging and looking after the habitat. The project sits within Mycotour, funded by European Next Generation money, which Soria shares with Vic, Ávila, Teruel and other partners.
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