Immersive Resources

THDL is experimenting with new technologies, beyond still photos and audio-video, which provide a more immersive, three dimensional experience of places and objects. These include three key types:

• QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) Objects: these are three dimension objects which allow you to spin them around and see their various sides.
  • A traditionally clothed and decorated small clay statue of the eighth-century female Tibetan saint Yeshe Tsogyel (ye shes mtsho rgyal).
  • A large metal prayer wheel in Meru Nyingba Monastery (Lhasa, Tibet).
  • A woman from the Old Lhasa City dressed in traditional clothes for contemporary Tibetan married women.
  • A small clay statue said to be a direct resemblance of the fourteenth-century Nyingma saint Longchenpa (klong chen pa).
• QuickTime Virtual Reality (QTVR) Panoramas: these are 360 degree views of places which allow you to view a place in all directions.
  • Mount Everest
  • Meru Nyingba Monastery in the Lhasa Barkhor
  • Basum Bridge
  • Tholing Monastery in Guge
  • The sky burial site at Drigung Monastery
• Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML): these are interactive three dimensional models of a place which allow you to walk in rooms, and so forth.
  • A three dimensional interactive model of Meru Nyingba Monastery (Lhasa, Tibet).