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Incredible work bringing so many moving parts together to make such a seamless, immersive experience. Online museums have been an aspiration since the early days of the web, and this exhibit sets a new bar.

One slight hiccup I noticed: The guided tour frequently clips through the geometry, which breaks the immersion a bit. I don't know if the Matterport SDK has any facilities for following paths rather than a straight line when automatically navigating, but if it's possible, it would be a nice addition.



Thanks for the feedback—this is partly due to the way I built the scan tour points. Can revise in the future.


And if it doesn't, it's a request they should be happy to take on for academic work like this.

They should recognize they have a big opportunity for great PR gains by officially supporting this kind of project, which could feed back to their primary real estate based business.


What system are you on? With Chrome 106 on a 2019 Mac Book Pro the website is completely unusable at 1 frame per 2 seconds...


Type in about:flags in the Chrome URL bar.

Search for "Override software rendering list". Set it to "Enable". Restart Chrome.




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