Explore Armenia’s Medieval Monasteries in Interactive 360° Panoramas
June 7, 2017 12:59 PM   Subscribe

Today, the Armenian landscape is dotted with spectacular churches, the most notable of which date back to the medieval period... Today, many of these historic monasteries are still off the beaten path, perched overlooking vast gorges or hidden away in forested valleys. This is part of what the 360GreatArmenia VR app and website is trying to solve for by making virtual tours available from anywhere. ... the project has captured more that 300 virtual reality tours of ancient sites within modern Armenia.
posted by orrnyereg (5 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
This looks great, thanks! I just wish they'd left out the chest-beating about how "we were Christian before those Ethiopians, no really!"—it's unseemly and has nothing to do with the gorgeous images.

Anyone interested should check out Poemas del río Wang; they have lots of posts about this kind of thing, e.g. Armenian monasteries in Iran and Armenia minute by minute.
posted by languagehat at 1:45 PM on June 7, 2017 [1 favorite]


This is an amazing website. One of the seven wonders of the internet. Thank you.
posted by BlueHorse at 2:38 PM on June 7, 2017


360stories seems to be down just now but I'm looking forward to exploring it on google cardboard later!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:15 PM on June 7, 2017


Okay, it's working now, and if you have access to VR, even just google cardboard, it is AMAZING.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 6:10 PM on June 7, 2017


Aah, I played St Gregory the Illuminator in a Sunday school play 20 years ago! So pumped to see his pit!!
posted by potrzebie at 8:23 PM on June 7, 2017


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