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Show HN: The Tomb of Nefertari [QV 66] Guided Virtual Tour

#1
I 3d scanned the Tomb of Nefertari and am building this guided virtual tour, trying to bring in photogrammetry of artifacts that I've made at various museums. It crashes sometimes still on mobile devices.

I wasn't able to take photogrammetry photos of the artifacts from the tomb in the Museo Egizio in Turin because they were traveling while I was there (and now the museum is closed to install a new roof anyhow), so I tried to include comparanda from other museums where I had scanned artifacts.

I tested the same dataset with 3d Gaussian Splatting but that had lower resolution results for great complexity in frontend code and reduced performance on older devices. [3DGS tour: https://mused.com/en/tours/860/learn-about-3d-gaussian-splat...]

Moving forward, if anyone's working on the same idea, I didn't find a good path to monetization through web-based 3d content, so I'll take the high resolution photogrammetry of spaces into Unreal and switch to desktop and headset builds.

Show HN: The Tomb of Nefertari [QV 66] Guided Virtual Tour
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#2
Really cool. The main thing I wish is that the transitions between "slides" was slower and not just a quick crossfade. The current transition is a bit disorienting mean I have to look around again to see where I am relative to where I was. Looking forward to seeing something like this on a VR headset.

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#3

Really cool. The main thing I wish is that the transitions between "slides" was slower and not just a quick crossfade. The current transition is a bit disorienting mean I have to look around again to see where I am relative to where I was. Looking forward to seeing something like this on a VR headset.

Thanks, good to know -- that's something I can change

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#9
This is absolutely amazing! Did you get permission to do this or did you have to tip the guards there?

I wish I saw something like this before going in. For those that don't know, guides aren't allowed into the tombs. So you kinda just wander around, don't understand anything (if you're me) and take some photos to try and ask the guide later what they mean.

Depending on your guide, all their answers might be bullshit and you'll end up googling later.

Edit: Just spent far too long clicking through all the tours available on your site, absolutely amazing. Really feels like I'm back in Egypt.

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#10
Amazing, thanks for helping anyone in the world explore Nefertari's tomb. The rest of the site is also amazing!

For Nefertari's, did you just use a camera and tripod to scanned the tomb you have a sort of 3d map of the tomb ? If so, what equipment did you use?

In case it helps the author, it crashes in Safari et when at some point (random) during the visit (v. 17.2.1 on a M1 Pro MBPro). Works perfect on Brave

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