Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Vatican Virtual Tour


Vatican - Virtual Tour

Touring the Vatican Without Taking a Step . Virtual Images Bring Rome to Your Home
ROME, JULY 27, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Nothing can compare to a visit to Rome to admire the Sistine Chapel in person, or feel the "embrace" of the colonnade surrounding St. Peter's Square.
But a two-year project accomplished by students of the Villanova University of Pennsylvania can bring part of the "Rome experience" into your home. The Sistine Chapel, St. Paul's Outside the Walls, St. John Lateran and St. Peter's are all available for viewing virtually at the Vatican web site. St. Peter's is the last to have been posted; the Sistine Chapel went up in March. St. Paul's was the first to be made available, in 2008, and St. John Lateran was completed last November.
http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_giovanni/vr_tour/index-en.html
Explore the rooms with your mouse and don’t miss the ceiling! This is simply ... Awesome.. The 360-degree images can be zoomed and rotated so that viewers have the sense of being within the rooms, even if, as Chad Fahs, a digital media expert in Villanova’s Communication Department, affirmed, "Being in the Sistine Chapel is an experience that's difficult to describe, much less re-create on a two-dimensional screen."
INSTRUCTIONS: After you open the site , select an image as it appears, then:
HOLD DOWN THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON AND SLOWLY MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND THE ROOM - Go slowly to avoid dizzziness

Ref :http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/vatican.html