alt Hacker NewsLa Basilica Di San Pietro
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Seeing a digital version of it in such detail only further reinforces how important it is to experience it in person.
Few sights of man-made things have instilled as much awe in me as La Basilica Di San Pietro and most of them are also in Rome (namely the Pantheon and Moses @ Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli).
This reminds me strongly of Microsoft Photosynth. Can't help wondering what the lineage between the two looks like.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
https://medium.com/@dddexperiments/why-i-preserved-photosynt...
Direct link to the virtual tour: https://virtual.basilicasanpietro.va/en
What does AI have to do with this? They thoroughly scanned the thing, where's the need for AI?
Absolutely gorgeous imagery, and it seems to have a functional purpose as well, as a digital twin for structural modeling.
Incredible work.
The work in the related stories are equally gorgeous. Thanks for sharing mate.
Looking at the source code with web inspector it seems to be powered by 3D gaussian splatting and BabylonJS (https://doc.babylonjs.com/features/featuresDeepDive/mesh/gau...).
It would be nice if they'd let you see the whole thing at once.
Any way to experience this on a VR headset? I have a Valve index
It's not preserved until the data and source code are open, I'm sure these corporate exercises are impressive to potential clients, but they have absolutely nothing to do with preserving, studying, or expanding access to art and culture.
dumb question: could we, in the future, use some kind of gen ai to generate a videogame map (i'm thinking quake 3 arena / openarena) of buildings like these ?
(not just the basilica di san pietro)
So this is one of the vanity project Microsoft undertakes using the vast amounts of money it makes off of proprietary software?
This brings back memories of Microsoft's acquisition of SeaDragon. At the time they had a really compelling demo (at least for me) of reconstructing 3D locations based on a smatterings of photos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFSsTwXLqsc