Rome Reborn - A 3D video exploration of a reconstructed Rome (from Google Earth)

[Dover]

A rediscovery of ancient Rome - both exterior and interior spaces:

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/

[ashling]

1. This is super cool

I could spend hours looking at these, ... and probably will.

[onager]

3. Same here.

I went to Rome in 2008, a life-long dream of mine.

Then I fulfilled another big dream and went to Venice. 6-hr train ride from Rome, but worth the trip.

At the time I was working in Egypt, so Italy was a fairly short trip.

[Dover]

2. So, do ya think this ancient landscape will end up in a video game or virtual reality? n/t

[onager]

4. Look! It's Shirley MacLaine! And Sylvia Browne!

:rofl:

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

[Dover]

5. ??? Don't get it. I was thinking along the lines of a Gladiator game using these models

for 3D effect. I recall when I first saw the movie Gladiator with Russell Crow how thrilling
it was to become immersed in the Rome that Ridley Scott recreated. It was epic.

[onager]

6. Sorry, I guess that was pretty obscure.

MacLaine and the phony psychic Browne are both flaming woo-woos who believe they lived past lives. Like many people who believe this, they were never common folk in their past lives - they were always Cleopatra or somebody else in the ruling class.

So I was just having fun with the idea of their virtual selves strolling thru a re-creation of ancient Rome.

Weak, I know, but I have to amuse myself however I can.

[Libertas1776]

7. Geez,

the rents for a Capitoline adjacent insula must have been outrageous! :P