Saint Peter Basilica digital experience
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Saint Peter Basilica digital experience
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Re: Saint Peter Basilica digital experience
#2The AI narration is annoying, with awkward pauses and occasional mispronunciations. For example, it described the motto "urbi et orbi" as "urb-eye e.t. orbee".
Movement is very jerky (maybe because of my old computer?) and I was disappointed that I could only roam freely around the wireframe model, not any of the photographic images. Because of the jerkiness, it was sometimes hard to tell what part of the architecture I was looking at.
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#3For any heathens like me, the history makes a lot more sense when you know that Simon and Peter are the same person. It chops and changes with no explanation.
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#4The navigation in 3D-space is annoying. I do my fair share of Three.js development, was very experienced in Maya, but I just can't use this one here. Panning is on the screen's plane at unbelievable slow increments, that I can't help but thinking that someone made this for VR and only tested it there, I can't imagine that a mouse was used during testing.
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#5I am deeply disappointed as one of the few sites that has a Latin translation, www.vatican.va does not respect my "Accept-Language: la" request header, but instead provides a language selector UI element that brings you to a special Latin section.
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#7The AI narration is annoying, with awkward pauses and occasional mispronunciations. For example, it described the motto "urbi et orbi" as "urb-eye e.t. orbee". Movement is very jerky (maybe because of my old computer?) and I was disappointed that I could only roam freely around the wireframe model, not any of the photographic images. Because of the jerkiness, it was sometimes hard to tell what part of the architectur…
Instant mute for me...
As someone that is not very religious, it is still a site to behold in person.
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#9The navigation in 3D-space is annoying. I do my fair share of Three.js development, was very experienced in Maya, but I just can't use this one here. Panning is on the screen's plane at unbelievable slow increments, that I can't help but thinking that someone made this for VR and only tested it there, I can't imagine that a mouse was used during testing.
I mean, you could play Quake II in a browser, what, 15 years ago? Interfaces like this are inexcusable today.
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#10The necropolis of Roman tombs, over which the Basilica was built, and what is claimed to be Peter's Tomb, can actually be visited, deep in the bowels of the Basilica. To do so one must sign up for the Scavi Tour and book well in advance as only very small groups are taken.