Microsoft and the Vatican unveiled this AI collaboration

The project has been launched ahead of the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee, a year in which more than 30 million visitors are expected.

The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s most important monument’s while helping the Holy See manage visitor flows and identify conservation problems.

Using 400,000 high-resolution digital photographs, taken with drones, cameras and lasers over four weeks when no one was in the basilica...