This is how you can take a virtual tour of the Pyramids of Giza

On the initiative of the university Harvard together with the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Egypt The result is a web application that allows people from all over the world to view the tour virtual According to the different available environments of the Pyramids of Giza.

A virtual space created on the basis of a camera 360° Similar to what is used to register service locations Google Street View allows interested people to take a tour without having to travel Egypt. Each space has a label that allows it to be identified both in its name and by its location in the pyramid structure, so that each user can have a tourist experience closer to reality from their own home.

The The Giza ProjectAs the project of an American educational institution and an Egyptian government body is known, it has been adapted so that people can access the tour for free. computer Desktop, laptop or any other mobile device like cellphones or tablets. In all cases, users will be directed to a virtual tour and will only be allowed to rotate the viewing angle to different parts of the spaces, just as it happens in the Street View function. Google.

How the virtual tour website works

To take a tour and learn more about one of these Pyramids of GizaUsers should log on to the giza.mused.org website, where they should click on the appropriate section of the Great Pyramid of Khufu where the visit will take place. virtual. After the respective upload is completed, the visitors will start to live information of the space they are in at the bottom of their screen.

Each click on the Next button, which is also located at the bottom screen, will allow the tour to progress and at the same time new texts will be generated with relevant data about what is visible from that point and about the location occupied inside the pyramid. The same thing GoogleUsers will be able to use a cursor or fingers when accessing from a mobile device to rotate the view or Zoom in in a specific area.

In case you want to take a tour without additional data or information, but in a more free way in space virtualIn the upper right part of the screen there is a button that changes the guided tour mode free survey, which establishes a series of circular markers spaced along a route to facilitate movement.

In addition, the Free Roam mode has several Tools Additional information that allows users to learn more about the space they are visiting. This set includes:

– See Doll’s House: A function that constructs a model 3D A route that can be made in space. You can see the shapes of corridors and spaces inside the pyramid.

– See floor plan: It allows users an aerial view space which will be visited and possible route within it.

– plant selector: whose function is to transport visitors virtual Through the various floors available for visits. In the case of Khufu’s pyramid, 5 levels are involved.

– measurement mode: what is located nodes Determining measurements of corridors, windows, monuments and other elements in the space that users find interesting.

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