Giza Project guided tour of the Great Pyramid interior
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Giza Project guided tour of the Great Pyramid interior
I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
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55 positive, 40 neutral or asking, 15 mixed, 22 critical, out of 132 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Execution: 8 for, 15 againstIdea: 10 for, 0 againstDesign: 8 for, 0 againstPerformance: 2 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 against
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Immersive, best virtual visit experience
From 1 comment
Wow! After going through this tour, I feel like I don't need to visit in real life. I can imagine an "IRL" tour wouldn't be as good, with queues, lots of other tourists, etc.…
mwidell on HN
Great for kids and education
From 2 comments
This is truly incredible, I can't wait to show this to my kids after school. Thank you so much for doing this work.
flyosity on HNAMAZING! Will try it out on a headset, and show it to kids who have been asking mummy questions. Thank you so much!
blobbers on HN
Objections
Guided tour clips through walls
From 2 comments
Incredible work bringing so many moving parts together to make such a seamless, immersive experience. Online museums have been an aspiration since the early days of the web, and…
mortenjorck on HNThis is really cool. Free explore is really immersive. The guided tour would be better if the movement was on rails instead of glitching through walls though.
whycombinetor on HN
Fails on iOS, Firefox iPhone and Brave
From 3 comments
The page crashes for me on iOS.
layer8 on HNI’m curious to see it but FYI it doesn’t work on an iPhone with Firefox (you can never get past the first screen).
massinstall on HNThis appears not to work under Brave due to a strict CORS policy. The call to https://static.matterport.com/geoip/ is throwing a MissingAllowOriginHeader.
bragr on HN
Image modal and Explore button errors
From 2 comments
If you open the image modals, and then click next, I see a blurred screen and cannot progress forward/back. react-dom.production.min.js:209 TypeError: Cannot read properties of…
trhoad on HNClicking "Explore" button does nothing for me -- what is it supposed to do? When I load the page I can see the following JS error in the console: Uncaught TypeError: o is…
amatecha on HN
Requests
Add a 2D minimap or position overlay
From 3 comments
That is insanely cool. The dollhouse view is nice. It would be great if you could see a 2D schematic of where you are in the pyramid as you're exploring. Incredible job!
petargyurov on HNVery cool. I wish there was a 2D "dungeon crawler" map overlay of some kind so I could see where I am and what direction I'm facing as I progress into the structure. I start to…
erickhill on HNThanks for the amazing work! Here are my notes: 1- Actual surveying of the site was a bit annoying. On one hand, I wanted to scan everything and look at every detail. On the…
qersist3nce on HN
Slow down the automatic tour
From 1 comment
Thanks for the amazing work! Here are my notes: 1- Actual surveying of the site was a bit annoying. On one hand, I wanted to scan everything and look at every detail. On the…
qersist3nce on HN
VR support
From 2 comments
Is it possible to see it in VR?
hatsubishi on HNIs this available in VR?
qq66 on HN
Questions
How was position determined inside the pyramid
From 1 comment
Beautiful! Thanks for doing this work. Can you explain a bit on the process that was used to create this? How do you determine your position inside the pyramid precisely? (would…
nimrody on HN
Why are the scans blurred in some areas
From 1 comment
Incredible. Going through this gave me similar sentiments to when i first used my school library copy of Encarta 98. Question: there are some blurred out areas, how come? e.g.…
easytiger on HN
Alternatives named
Scaniverse
From 1 comment
I am amazed by this. I’ve been playing with a 3D scanning app on iPhone as a total amateur and totally new to the mode of collection and it truly produces amazing results with…
site-packages1 on HN
Nerfstudio
From 1 comment
You should try processing your photo dataset with a NERF based tool. They are much better at rebuilding the 3D structure from set of images. EDIT: There is this for example…
smusamashah on HN