Tomb of Ramesses I tour
Learning and science
3d virtual tour
SHOW HN2023
118points
43comments
#542of 3,109 in 2023
Top 18%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
4 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 5 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Performance: 2 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Engaging interactive storytelling and hieroglyph explanations
From 2 comments
This is absolutely amazing! Highlighting the hieroglyphs and explaining what they mean is amazing. Having been to the tombs, it was a bit annoying not knowing what anything…
doix on HNOh, my. Story mode is good, but some minor things: flashlight slows the things down quite massively, previous version wasn't fast but this one lags; it's a bit too dark, I…
justsomehnguy on HN
Works well on desktop and Firefox
From 2 comments
What are you running on? I'm on a 12-year-old mid-range desktop PC with no offboard GPU and it ran just great...
qingcharles on HNI love it. FWIW, works great on Firefox 117.0.1 running on Linux/amd64
krylon on HN
Objections
Crashes on iPhone
From 2 comments
Crashes for me on iPhone a few steps in. iPhone 14/Safari.
prawn on HNCrashed on my iPhone 12 a few steps in. I tried again without turning the background and it did it again.
intellix on HN
Performance lag with flashlight and on 4k displays
From 2 comments
Oh, my. Story mode is good, but some minor things: flashlight slows the things down quite massively, previous version wasn't fast but this one lags; it's a bit too dark, I…
justsomehnguy on HNRyzen 3 4300U driving a 4k display, in Firefox.
justsomehnguy on HN
Cookie banner issue
From 2 comments
Neat, but a small annoyance: Since you're setting the "mused_cookies_accepted" cookie without me accepting anything, there isn't much point in showing that banner. It's not GDPR…
karaterobot on HNThat's not how the GDPR laws work. You're allowed to set cookies that are functional for the site without prompting. You must only prompt for optional cookies. Knowing if the…
junon on HN
Too dark by default
From 1 comment
Oh, my. Story mode is good, but some minor things: flashlight slows the things down quite massively, previous version wasn't fast but this one lags; it's a bit too dark, I…
justsomehnguy on HN
Requests
Add a turn on the lights mode
From 2 comments
Oh, my. Story mode is good, but some minor things: flashlight slows the things down quite massively, previous version wasn't fast but this one lags; it's a bit too dark, I…
justsomehnguy on HN+1 to "turn on the lights" mode
jh00ker on HN
Support VR (Oculus)
From 2 comments
Can this be made to work in Oculus VR?
Demiurge on HNI tried your Giza Pyramid in VR but sadly Matterports “vr” isn’t great as it is only 2d photo spheres. (Unless they’ve changed it? I hope they have) You lose all sense of scale,…
snailmailman on HN
Improve mobile exploration
From 1 comment
Neat work, great job. It's super interesting to see content like this. I feel like if you can nail a bit more the exploration on mobile and make performance slightly better this…
epolanski on HN
Use Gaussian splatting or NeRF instead of photo spheres
From 2 comments
I remember your last post. Please consider processing your images through Nerf or instead the recent Guassian Splatting which is very popular these days because of processing…
smusamashah on HNThat's so cool--and it's interesting to see how the 360 image tours have evolved over the years. I'm hoping gaussian splatting or nerfs will do better soon. You could try your…
lukehollis on HN
Questions
What was it built with and how was the 3D captured
From 2 comments
Whoa, this was captured on an iPhone? What kind of process did you use to turn that into 3D models?
simonw on HNWhat are you running on? I'm on a 12-year-old mid-range desktop PC with no offboard GPU and it ran just great...
qingcharles on HN
Why guides are not allowed in the tombs
From 1 comment
Why aren't guides allowed into the tombs? Sounds like there might be an interesting story behind the rule...
spondylosaurus on HN
Alternatives named
Matterport
From 2 comments
Whoa, this was captured on an iPhone? What kind of process did you use to turn that into 3D models?
simonw on HNI tried your Giza Pyramid in VR but sadly Matterports “vr” isn’t great as it is only 2d photo spheres. (Unless they’ve changed it? I hope they have) You lose all sense of scale,…
snailmailman on HN
Photosynth and Seadragon
From 1 comment
I love this! My father created a panorama with walkable waypoints like this for the Golden Temple in Amritsar and a few other historic sites back in the Shockwave/Flash days…
ckz on HN