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Episode: Vatican, Microsoft create AI-generated St. Peter’s Basilica to allow virtual visits, log damage
Description: The Vatican and Microsoft in November unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monuments while helping the Holy See manage visitor flows and identify conservation problems.
Using 400,000 high-resolution digital photographs, taken with drones, cameras, and lasers over four weeks when no one was in the basilica, the digital replica went online alongside two new on-site exhibits to provide visitors—real and virtual—with an interactive experience.
“It is literally one of the most technologically advanced and sophisticated projects of its kind that has ever been pursued,”...