Interactive tour of James Clerk Maxwell's house

If you're ever in Edinburgh, this is an excellent place to visit and spend an afternoon. One of the funniest parts was upon walking in the door, the gentleman who greeted me asked "What kind of engineer are you?" Very worthwhile.

I would really like to know what the whole tech stack was to produce this: Which camera system was used to record these images and what platform they used for building the 3D experience?<p>The pictures must be of insane resolution, as you can zoom in to read even the smallprint on all the posters clearly (imagine Google StreetView like this). And I didn&#x27;t really notice any stitching, tripods etc.<p>Also they have cleverly embedded video animations in some of the rooms 360 degree images. These were clearly recorded separately but I still haven&#x27;t fully figured out how they added them. Very well done and indeed probably almost as good as being there in person.

I&#x27;ve actually done some volunteer work at the James Clerk Maxwell house. The people who run it are great and love to show people around if you want an in-person tour. Just email and they can organise a time.

This type of 360 photo media experience will soon be replaced by 3d gaussian &#x2F; Nerf realtime render as demonstrated by the Smerf project which was trending yesterday: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38632492">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38632492</a><p>Add a VR viewer and the experience will start to be really close to seeing the real thing...<p>I wonder if, at some point, there might not be a push back from museum and tourist attractions against using too immersive virtual experience for fear of hurting the number of actual visitors. (Although I guess, they could just charge for the virtual access to make up for an eventual loss).

An interactive tour of the JCMB would be somewhat pedestrian. Presumably a tour of the DHT ends with asbestos and a leaky rooftop view

It&#x27;s very stylish and tasteful!<p>It looks like the house of someone who was very wealthy by at least today&#x27;s standards, but I see that he came from a comfortable but not rich family.<p>Curious, wouldn&#x27;t a home like that be considered wealthy? Certainly it looks like something that would need staff to keep up when it was a household.

I was there earlier this year, well worth a visit - try to make it to one of their guided tours, I believe they have two per day.

I wonder if Oliver Heaviside&#x27;s house still remains. He rewrote Maxwell&#x27;s equations in the form we used today.

I&#x27;d like to know if the pictures on the wall were there (and in the same place) when he lived there.

On my android phone this is like touring Maxwell&#x27;s house on DMT while drunk. The image is spinning round like crazy and hugely over-sensitive. Enjoyable though

The online tour of renowned physicist Maxwell&#x27;s house in Edinburgh. UI is responsive &amp; attractive. Lots of trivia and tidbits scattered about the house like Easter eggs to click on!

Looks very inaccurate. When I go there I would have expected to be able to experience the house as James Clerk Maxwell would have, and therefore give me more of a sense of getting to know him by experiencing what he would have experienced on a daily basis.<p>Why would I go to his house to look at posters giving information, makes no sense I could look at that information from home no need to go all the way to his actual house.