Virtual tour of the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses VI

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Post by open-source-ux » Fri, May 01, 2020, 2:19 PM UTC

Virtual tour of the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses VI
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Post by pier25 » Fri, May 01, 2020, 3:30 PM UTC

This is amazing.

Anyone knows how Matterport works? Does it extract the 3d meshes from 360 photos?

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Post by gt2 » Fri, May 01, 2020, 3:32 PM UTC

Spectacular. It's well lit, and has a smooth experience.

And in one way, this virtual tour is better than the live one- at the end you can step past the guardrails! Check it out (deep link to show it wasn't possible, so just walk or click to the end of the long hall to see what I mean).

Anyone know other tours like this?

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Post by xwdv » Fri, May 01, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

I would like to see this done for Chernobyl.

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Post by knute » Fri, May 01, 2020, 3:53 PM UTC

gt2 wrote: post #3

Spectacular. It's well lit, and has a smooth experience. And in one way, this virtual tour is better than the live one- at the end you can step past the guardrails! Check it out (deep link to show it wasn't possible, so just walk or click to the end of the long hall to see what I mean). Anyone know other tours like this?

There are several linked from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities' Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/tourismandantiq

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Post by speakeron » Fri, May 01, 2020, 4:17 PM UTC

That's beautiful. It's just begging for translation overlays on the exquisite wall detail.

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Post by pugworthy » Fri, May 01, 2020, 4:19 PM UTC

Anyone able to access this via Firefox and VR? It seems to launch SteamVR with my WMR headset active, but no content - and no VR button on the web UI (which the help mentions).

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Post by technotony » Fri, May 01, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

speakeron wrote: post #6

That's beautiful. It's just begging for translation overlays on the exquisite wall detail.

Before High Fidelity VR shut down they were doing tours with an Egyptologist tour-guide of another tomb which was really cool.

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Post by asah » Fri, May 01, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

Doubly impressive: there are spots you can visit in the vtour, that you cannot see in real life because they're outside the pedestrian walkway.

Example: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NXdDoDTnNXJgkr8X9

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Post by mofojed » Fri, May 01, 2020, 5:11 PM UTC

asah wrote: post #9

Doubly impressive: there are spots you can visit in the vtour, that you cannot see in real life because they're outside the pedestrian walkway. Example: https://photos.app.goo.gl/NXdDoDTnNXJgkr8X9

I'm sure the guards there would encourage you have the privilege of a view from off the pedestrian walkway for a tip.