Virtual Reality app Recreates Jerusalem During Second Temple
Lithodomos VR offers visitors 3D look at the holy city during the life of Jesus; IAA to develop digital reconstruction of ancient Galilee [timesofisrael from April 2017]
A new virtual reality app allows visitors to Jerusalem to see the city as it looked during the heyday of the Second Temple.
The paid application, called Lithodomos VR, simulates the way Jerusalem appeared during the first century CE, before the temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE
The app, launched in December 2016, will be updated as new archaeological research concerning the Temple Mount and its environs emerges, Simon Young, a doctoral researcher at the University of Melbourne who designed the app, told LiveScience on Thursday
“The VR content that we are deploying on the app is the result of carefully researched material from archaeological excavations, site plans, elevation drawings, photographs of textures and [geographic information system] mapping, as well as topographical data from NASA’s ASTER digital elevation models,” he said.
The application includes virtual reality scenes of Jerusalem from the period after Herod renovated the Temple, as well as view from the digitally rebuilt Robinson’s Arch.
“From there, you can see the slope of Mount Zion and the Roman-period settlements, as well as the back of a theater, and to the left you can see the Antonia Fortress [the barracks of the Roman garrison] and the Jewish settlement. So, you can see about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) in every direction,” Young told the site.
Explore Ancient Jerusalem in VR. Get it now: http://tinyurl.com/grwmck6
Posted by Lithodomos VR on piektdiena, 2016. gada 23. decembris
Lithodomos costs $1.99 for Android, and $2.99 on an iPhone.
First Demo of Herods temple in Jerusalem; The Reconstruction of the Herodian Sanctuary According to the Writings of Josephus Flavius.
Based on the Doctoral Dissertation of Dr. Yehoshua Peleg, department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Supported by the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Prof. Joshua Schwartz, Director
Project Initiator and Project Director: Yehuda Vinograd
Production: Atom-mc
Temple Utensils and Priests: Shilo Vinograd
דוגמית מתוך שחזור ממוחשב של בית המקדש השני, ע"פ עבודת הדוקטורט של ד"ר יהושע פלג, מרכז רנרט לחקר ירושלים, אוניברסיטת בר אילן;
ביצוע: חברת אתום בע"מ,
יזם ומנהל פרוייקט: יהודה וינוגרד - yvinograd@gmail.com
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For the readers who might not know should know that the beautiful edifice of the Second Temple was built by king Herod (who was a Hittite? (read that somewhere) and was also a Roman slave who usurped the throne (even though that throne was usurped by the Chashmanoai dynasty which had no right to rule, as they were kohanim). Herod murdered the Sages of Israel, except for one, Ben Buta, whom he blinded and asked forgiveness from and asked him to advise him how to make up for murdering the Sages. Ben Buta told him to renovate and rebuild the Beit Hamikdash, which turned out to be the most beautiful edifice anyone in that era ever saw.
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