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Welcome Back!
Not too much new in this update since we have not
been traveling recently. There is one new virtual tour,
that of the Roman Forum. It is a reworking of a tour Dale
did for a Google Summit pre-retirement. Two interesting features
of the tour are that it offers a "then" and "now" look at the
forum, much like our tour of Diocletian's Palace. The second
interesting feature is the use of AI-generated voices. We
took an audio clip of each of our voices and use elevenlabs.io
to generate a likeness of our voices. The result is a bit
unnerving. My AI voice is in the opening splash screen of the VR
Roman Forum tour, while the audio narration of the tour is a
text to speech process using Tracy's cloned voice. While we
think the "real" voices are better (when we are in good form),
the difference is smaller than we would have ever guessed!
The website has now seen 8,000+ visitors since the last update,
so it would seem some people have found the site valuable in
their trip planning, and we hope you will too. And, please, share this site with
anyone who might have an interest in these travel destinations
Again, here are the different sections of our webpage:
Legacy Links:
the pre-2010 web pages which have undergone rennovation,
divided into Personal
and Travel
archives. These are colored aqua
New Links:
featuring websites that were completed (or partially
completed) by 2010 but not uploaded, as well as current
travels. These are colored beige
Virtual Traveler:
takes advantage of cameras that can capture 360-degree
photos to produce immersive tours on both your desktop or
laptop, as well as via VR Tours (accessed by scanning a QR
Code) that use Google Cardboard or similar Virtual Reality
headsets (along with your smartphone) for a fully
immersive experience. These are a reddish hue
Thank you for
stopping by our little corner of the Internet. As always,
we enjoy hearing from visitors with comments or
suggestions.
Tracy and Dale
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