Chinese Forbidden City became a virtual

The company and IBM jointly by Chinese authorities launched a virtual model of the Imperial Palace, Forbidden City, located in the heart of Beijing, reports Reuters. The project took three years and has more than three million dollars.

The virtual model Forbidden City was established under the project "Beyond Space and Time". She realized at the semblance of the game Second Life, and allows users to explore the imperial palace as one of the nine characters in the era of the Qing Dynasty. Among them, eunuchs, military officials and imperial concubines.

The developers have stressed that during the virtual walks along the Forbidden City can not run and move quickly. This is done to avoid distracting other visitors, which can interact in the virtual world, from exploring the palace.

In order to stroll the virtual Forbidden City need to download special software from the site of the project "Beyond Space and Time". Time file download at broadband Internet access, according to the resource, is half an hour. Working with computers, users can program with Windows XP or Vista, Mac OS X operating system and based on the kernel Linux.