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I am amazed by this. I’ve been playing with a 3D scanning app on iPhone as a total amateur and totally new to the mode of collection and it truly produces amazing results with only iPhone lidar. Scaniverse if you’re curious.

The new version claims not to even need the LIDAR.

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Incredible. Thank you so much for that. What an incredible project and one I think will make a huge impact for years. Question. I noticed a very unusual experience I've not felt before in a 3D world; I started to feel claustrophobic - so much so I had to close the tab. I'm curious; has anyone else experienced the same do you know? If so, any ideas why it should be so powerful a feeling in this particular case?

I'm a tall guy, and started feeling claustrophobic when I saw what some of the tunnel entrances looked like. I never used the measurement tool to verify, but they looked like they'd have made me prefer crawling instead of crouching. Something that confirmed my suspicion: In the King's chamber, 'stand' next to the sarcophagus, and look behind you. I won't explain further.

I went there and yes had to awkwardly crouch/walk up that whole thing.

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Wow! After going through this tour, I feel like I don't need to visit in real life. I can imagine an "IRL" tour wouldn't be as good, with queues, lots of other tourists, etc. This was the best virtual visit experience I have ever had, to any real world place. Kudos!

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This is super well done!

Going through the pyramid brought back so many amazing memories. Had such a great trip here and because of this, I got to experience it again.

The website interactions are silky smooth and beautifully done and the image quality is just incredible!

Thanks for putting this together!

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Incredible work bringing so many moving parts together to make such a seamless, immersive experience. Online museums have been an aspiration since the early days of the web, and this exhibit sets a new bar. One slight hiccup I noticed: The guided tour frequently clips through the geometry, which breaks the immersion a bit. I don't know if the Matterport SDK has any facilities for following paths rather than a straigh…

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Type in about:flags in the Chrome URL bar.

Search for "Override software rendering list". Set it to "Enable". Restart Chrome.

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I wish looking straight up wasn't blurry, I know this is a common problem with 360 camera's but I'd hoped that a camera of this caliber would account for it (even if with a little stitching)

EDIT: I didn't say it (it goes without saying), but this is awesome, especially as a work of preservation.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I think whenever I play Minetest. My inventory can fit 40 stacks of 99 cubic meters of stone: 3960 cubic meters, about 10000 tonnes. I guess Sam's backpack is bigger on the inside than the outside...

What is Minetest?

Minetest is an open source voxel game engine. Fundamentally it is very similar to Minecraft.

https://www.minetest.net/

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