Thanks to $3 million dollars from IBM and three years of effort, you can now download a virtual tour of China’s Forbidden City. Based on gaming software, the project lets you take a three dimensional tour of the imperial palace built during the mid-Ming Dynasty, starting in 1406 (get more info here).
Update: This was originally posted in 2008. It looks like the virtual tour has been taken offline.
via Metafilter
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That is pretty interesting. At least we can be sure that there is increasing interest in the virtual world space. The file is massive though.
Talking about virtually visiting places of interest, http://www.amazingworlds.com is way better.
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break in link on virtual tour, won’t load
Can someone just show me a link to download the Virtual Forbidden City without some scam website trying to get me to sign up of mislead me with a link to something else?
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