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Virtual tour of the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses VI
- asah 7y agoDoubly 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 https://photos.app.goo.gl/NXdDoDTnNXJgkr8X9
- mofojed 7y agoI'm sure the guards there would encourage you have the privilege of a view from off the pedestrian walkway for a tip.
- canada_dry 7y ago> guards would allow you to go off the pedestrian walkway for a tip Actually, no. The guards (in the Valley anyway) take their jobs very seriously and have seen it all... you'll get unceremoniously removed for trying to break a rule.
- csomar 7y agoWhile Egypt is generally loose in this regard, they are super strict about few things. Sharm Elsheikh's reef come to my mind.
- rabboRubble 6y agoDid you catch the beheaded bound people depicted at ground level around what I assume is a stone coffin? Tried to research what the meaning / story is for these figures. My best guess with 10 minute googling is that they represent defeated enemies.
- pier25 7y agoThis is amazing. Anyone knows how Matterport works? Does it extract the 3d meshes from 360 photos?
- fsloth 7y agoSeems like a combination of 360 photography and off-the-shelf photogrammetry algorithms. Don't know if there is some secret sauce needed (not obvious from the content that there would be).
- MayeulC 7y agoWell, do you know where these shelves are? I'd be interested in photogrammetry software to reconstruct 3D models of environments, mostly to plan construction or aesthetic changes to buildings or surroundings. This is for home use, so I don't really need fancy texturing, etc. But having it reconstructed from a smartphone video feed would be a must. I looked for open source software a while back, but didn't really turn out interesting results :/ Edit: there seems to be a few interesting resources. It looks like MicMac could be quite simple to use, and desn't have a CUDA dependency, for instance.
- fsloth 6y agoIf you want to investigate free software options then may I suggest you look into Visual SFM (http://ccwu.me/vsfm/ http://ccwu.me/vsfm/) or AliceVision MeshRoom (https://alicevision.org/ https://alicevision.org/). I haven't used MicMac, might be good as well. I tried several years cheap approaches as you requested with no luck. Then I upscaled my gear. I've used Agisoft's Metashape with great success (https://www.agisoft.com/ https://www.agisoft.com/). The cheaper license offers really good functionality as is. DICE has published a pretty good intro into how to use it to capture photogrammetry data in https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/photogrammetry-and-star-wars-battlefront https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/photogrammetry-and-star-wa.... You do want to have a good camera for good results. My Mavic Pro's (a drone) 12 MP is barely tolerable. With Sony Alpha 6000 (24MP) and good lens, the results are fantastic. Camera phone can work, depending on the capabilities of the camera, but I would use photography and not video material - the images from photography seem to be better quality than frames extracted from video (YMMV). If you have the patience to collect the image material, the results can be really good. For example, as a hobby I've been collecting photogrammetry models from an office building being built near my home: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/hatsina-20200426-bdd0432954814925adbbea5a7549cee2 https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/hatsina-20200426-bdd04329548... So what you see there is the model as presented by Sketchfab. The textures and model are coming from Agisoft Metashape, Sketchfab is just used as a platform to display the model for public viewing. The data closer to ground is captured by my Sony Alpha 6000 while the data from above is from drone. I'm happy with the portions of model based on 24MP DSRL images but the drone based material does loook "melted" occasionally. As a reference, the source data for that model was roughly 800 images. The data the photogrammetry algorithms consume are coming from the pixel data. More pixels, the better the outcome. Roughly, the resolution and precision you can expect from the result mesh is equivalent to the pixel density of your source material. The algorithms don't invent anything that they can't see in the pictures. This means, that for example for columns you need to take 360 of tens of images around each column to make them appear ok in the model.
- gt2 7y agoSpectacular. 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?
- xwdv 7y agoI would like to see this done for Chernobyl.
- rusty__ 7y agoNot sure i'd be volunteering to put a tripod down all over the place!
- xwdv 7y agoCould probably be done with some sort of drone rig.
- ethagnawl 7y agoI think it would depend what sort of penetration you're after. It was not possible to work with robots in/around the reactor in the immediate aftermath of the accident -- the robots would fail due to exposure to the radiation. It's quite possible that technology still hasn't advanced far enough to allow for the in-depth exploration that would be required to achieve anything like the linked example. I'd be curious to know if anyone knows more about recent attempts and the state of the art of hardening robots, drones, computers, etc. against radiation.
- DavidVoid 7y agoThere's Streetview in Pripyat [1] but not in the Nuclear plant itself apart from a handful of images [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4065351,30.0580859,2a,60y,352.27h,87.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3Wascrv-i7Y9GHVxjt9IKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4065351,30.0580859,2a,60y,35... [2] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3894109,30.0990984,3a,75y,169h,85.14t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOFTG9LuY8sDr6D6__Jz04rKmTPkAAQ049w2C0s!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOFTG9LuY8sDr6D6__Jz04rKmTPkAAQ049w2C0s%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya216.31851-ro-0-fo100!7i11802!8i5901 https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3894109,30.0990984,3a,75y,16...
- xwdv 7y agoWell, I would like to see directly into the Nuclear plant itself please.
- speakeron 7y agoThat's beautiful. It's just begging for translation overlays on the exquisite wall detail.
- technotony 7y agoBefore High Fidelity VR shut down they were doing tours with an Egyptologist tour-guide of another tomb which was really cool.
- jimmySixDOF 6y agoHigh Fidelity missed the Coronavirus WFH opportunity by only months. They claim to still be working on something new but, wow, its hard to think of a case of worse timing.
- pugworthy 7y agoAnyone 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).
- tda 7y agoThe dollhouse view is a nice way to zoom out without occluding what you want to see. Very impressed how smooth and detailed the tour is. So much better than streetview based tours
- agambrahma 7y agoStriking how _different_ this is from the pyramid of Giza. For this one, every inch covered with illustrations and hieroglyphs; for the great pyramid, completely bare, devoid of images.
- 4gotunameagain 6y agoTo be fair it might as well have been flashy on the outside, but erosion of the surface exposed to the elements (and sandstorms) is very high. We supposedly already know that it was covered in limestone, and some sources even mention looting of the limestone to build forts
- mattlondon 7y agoThere are a load of these that I found - source https://twitter.com/tourismandantiq https://twitter.com/tourismandantiq https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=d42fuVA21To https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=d42fuVA21To https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=QaGBAsT6yg4&mls=1 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=QaGBAsT6yg4&mls=1 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=ui3dfrQDqB2&mls=1 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=ui3dfrQDqB2&mls=1 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xmDbt2rfa82&help=1&brand=1&play=1&hl=1&ts=2&title=1&tourcta=2&vrcoll=0&dh=1&lp=1&wts=1 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xmDbt2rfa82&help=1&brand=1... https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=PKxweZaPG3P&help=1&brand=1&play=1&hl=1&ts=2&title=1&tourcta=2&vrcoll=0&dh=1&lp=1&wts=1 https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=PKxweZaPG3P&help=1&brand=1... https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zBpDdPqxTKz https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zBpDdPqxTKz https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zBpDdPqxTKz https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=zBpDdPqxTKz https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=o5Ex5Xo7UkE https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=o5Ex5Xo7UkE Absolutely fascinating! I have always wanted to visit these sort of things in real life but the political climate in the past decade or so has put me off. Shame - this is a great alternative though. I really wish more places would do this sort of thing! Google does some, but I like the quality of these.
- pier25 7y agoThaanks!
- pj_mukh 7y agoOh my. Thank you for finding these. I would pay a fair bit of money to have a docent of some sort take me around these places in VR. I can't actually visit Egypt anytime soon.
- a_c_s 7y agoAgreed: it is amazing to just have these in 3D. However as someone who doesn't know much about ancient Egypt it would be spectacular to have some kind of annotations or guide to explain what we are seeing.
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- simonw 7y agoI visited the valley of the kings ten years ago. This is a really good recreation: before I went I had no idea how well preserved the paintings in some of the tombs were. It's an amazing place to visit.
- stfurkan 7y agoIf you are interested, I am trying to build an open source database for places with virtual tour. Website: https://gez.la https://gez.la I am currently working on this alone. Anyone interested is welcome to help :) https://github.com/stfurkan/gez https://github.com/stfurkan/gez
- browie 7y agoBeautiful! Is it safe to assume you'll (eventually) add the links in this thread there?
- stfurkan 7y agoThanks. I will try to add them as soon as possible.
- historyview 6y agoTake a look at HistoryView.org We have over 700 virtual tours of museums, art galleries, and historic sites for free
- oguzhan2142 7y agoGood job.There are lots of museum.Where did you find all of these museums?
- stfurkan 7y agoThanks. I am searching them online. It take some time to find and add a new place but I hope it will worth the effort.
- rusty__ 7y agoBeautiful! I had this same system shown to me for a couple of houses I was looking at buying last year, the real estate agent had these photos taken in the house and stitched together this way with a dolls house view too. Very useful for that kind of application. Combined with VR glasses it would be a great way to preview things like furniture/new kitchen layouts in somewhere like Ikea or paint colours in a hardware store.
- kator 7y agoReally interesting, the transitions remind me of Myst [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
- ijustwanttovote 7y agoFor some reason, I am getting motion sickness while clicking around. But it's really detailed and cool.
- dferrum 7y agoMe too. Wonder if a VR version would be less nauseating.
- bentcorner 6y agoIt's probably the smooth acceleration/deceleration. I bet if the movement was a straight ramp instead of a smooth curve you'd feel better.
- echelon 7y agoWhy are parts of the tunnel blurred out? Censorship? Surely it isn't anything objectionable we wouldn't see on Wikipedia or Google Image search. Censorship of educational material is unnecessary. Edit: it appears to blur the textures immediately above on the y axis. Perhaps the software isn't correctly interpolating those values even though it has the data. I hope this is the case rather than the censorship I posited. This is really cool, and I hope more things become accessible in this fashion.
- MayeulC 7y agoProbably just a hardware blind spot, this is quite common to find on panoramic views (google street view, etc). Interesting that it sits above, rather than below the capturing apparatus, as it usually does: the tripod gets in the way. Maybe they lifted it from above?
- deadmutex 7y agoThe pictures here are very well lit -- anyone know how they achieved this? There do not seem to be visible lights in the photos.
- Animats 7y agoThere is an LED lighting system alongside the walkways, at floor level. It probably isn't original.
- lordleft 7y agoIt’s amazing how vivid the blue paint deep into the tomb has remained.
- modzu 7y agoits awesome, although at first i thought i was going to see it as it used to be. that would be a neat project
- rabboRubble 6y agoBookmarking for tomorrow
- rabboRubble 6y agoI did come back today guys :-) Worth the time too! I really wish Egypt were safer for single female travelers. Or just safer for travelers in general.
- knodi123 6y agoI wonder how old the greek graffiti in there is?
- winter_blue 6y agoThe picture/texture quality is mind-blowingly amazing. Imagine if video games had textures this high-definition!! They'd look so insanely good. And it's not like our present-day technology/GPUs can't handle it. It's probably more that video game makers don't want to spend a huge amount of money on artists and graphics people to create ultra-high-definition textures...
- vitoc 6y agoTry and spot a lookalike of the chinese character 大 in this tomb...interesting...
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- historyview 6y agoTake a look at HistoryView.org We have over 700 virtual tours of museums, art galleries, and historic sites for free