{"id":72729,"date":"2024-11-13T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=72729"},"modified":"2024-11-14T11:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T10:50:02","slug":"the-vatican-uses-video-game-technology-to-tell-the-story-of-st-peters-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2024\/11\/13\/the-vatican-uses-video-game-technology-to-tell-the-story-of-st-peters-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vatican uses video-game technology to tell the story of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>St. Peter's Basilica is featuring a new exhibition space at the top of the dome. Through this interactive exhibition, visitors can learn more about the origin of the Basilica, the location of St. Peter's tomb, and how the Basilica was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative is part of an ambitious project called \u201cPeter is Here\u201d, which seeks to communicate the uniqueness of the Basilica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CARD. MAURO GAMBETTI<br>Archpriest of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica<\/strong><br><em>\u201cThe effort is to decode, as the Holy Father said, for people of today, with the help of digital technology, the interweaving of history, art and spirituality that makes the Basilica unique in the world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding to the exhibition is a corresponding website, which offers a virtual visit to St.Peter\u2019s, with detailed explanations of the artistic elements it contains. It also offers practical information for visitors to the Basilica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CARD. MAURO GAMBETTI<br>Archpriest of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica<\/strong><br><em>\u201cIt indicates the crowd-flow in real time, suggests sightseeing routes, inspires a spiritual journey through the proposal of specific itineraries, and encourages a selection of visits at favorable times and days\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cardinal in charge of the Basilica says he is proud of the website's content, which is designed to reach all types of audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CARD. MAURO GAMBETTI<br>Archpriest of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica<br>(ITA ORIG)<br>CONF-AI-EXPERIENCE-6<br>07:25\u201d-07:35\u201d<br>\u201cIt\u2019s an educational program modeled after Minecraft, like the streaming of celebrations, like podcasts with meditations, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is managed using artificial intelligence, and in collaboration with the Fabric of St. Peter\u2019s and Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRAD SMITH<br>Microsoft Vice President<br>(ENG ORIG)<br>CONF-AI-EXPERIENCE-9<br>01:17\u201d-01:28\u201d<br>\u201cIt is literally one of the most technologically advanced and sophisticated projects of its kind that has ever been pursued\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 400,000 images of St. Peter\u2019s were captured, allowing the architecture of the Basilica to be reproduced down to a millimeter. The images are so detailed that the Basilica now has its own digital twin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AO<br>TR: GS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Vatican website and exhibition is using AI and Minecraft-like technology to tell the history of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":72718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,199,27,25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KjwYaUqxO9c","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbasilicaminecrafteng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bbasilicaminecraftint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72731,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72729\/revisions\/72731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}