Microsoft teams with the Vatican and French startup Iconem to create an intricately detailed digital twin of St. Peter’s ...

Online visitors can navigate the Vatican basilica’s mosaics, the cupola, the underground necropolis and Peter’s tomb. A ...

The keys to heavenBeneath Michelangelo’s great dome, the high altar of the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is covered ... monument was built on top. Something similar happened with the tomb ...

Vatican officials recently partnered with Microsoft to make a famous Catholic site safer, as well as more accessible.

A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most ...

Formally known as the Cathedra Sancti Petri Apostoli, or more simply as Cathedra Petri, the chair has held a revered place in ...

The heart of the project is the creation of a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica through advanced photogrammetry and ...

“The first chapter, in my view, begins exactly where it should ... An up-close image of the mosaic at the very top of St. Peter’s Basilica dome. Credit: Microsoft La Basilica Di San ...

“He brought out the bones of St. Peter shortly after his election, he had the Shroud of Turin on view in 2015, and now he has taken the Chair of Peter out for veneration in the basilica.” ...

A digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica has been created using ... pilgrims are expected to pass through the basilica’s Holy Door, on top of the 50,000 who visit on a normal day.

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that ... to pass through the basilica’s Holy Door, on top of the 50,000 who visit on ...