HamroSampada
हाम्रो सम्पदा, हाम्रो पहिचान — प्रविधिले जोगाएको, पुस्ताले अनुभव गर्ने।
We record Nepal's monuments through 3D reconstruction, archive-grade documentation and interactive maps — then bring them back to life as in-browser 3D, holographic projection and live on-device visualization.
- Origin
- Nepal
- Method
- Gaussian Splatting
- Access
- Open · Public
Landmarks of Nepal's living heritage
A curated selection from the archive — from the durbar squares of the Kathmandu Valley to sacred stupas and temples across the country.
The golden ages of Nepali heritage
From the first inscribed stones to a living digital archive — trace the eras that shaped the monuments in this collection.
The Malla Golden Age
मल्ल काल12th – 18th centuryNewar craft reaches its zenith. Rival city-states raise the durbar squares of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur — tiered pagodas, carved struts and gilded gates that still define the valley.
See Bhaktapur Durbar SquareNepal's heritage on the map
Every monument in the archive is geolocated. Pan and zoom across the country, then open any marker to read its record.
Walk around a monument in 3D
Using 3D Gaussian Splatting, hundreds of photographs are reconstructed into a photorealistic, point-based 3D scene you can explore right in your browser — no app, no plugins. It captures fine detail, colour and depth far beyond a flat photo.
The Chandeswori Temple is our reference capture. More monuments will be added to the viewer over time.
Heritage as a floating hologram
A compact, portable holographic projection unit that lifts captured monuments off the screen — built for museums, classrooms and public exhibitions, and controlled with a wave of the hand.
The holographic projection unit has been designed and assembled as a compact, portable system suitable for museum and exhibition deployment. The hardware comprises a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (4 GB RAM) as the primary compute unit, paired with a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Module for real-time scene capture and a high-brightness monitor as the projection source. A truncated-pyramid holographic enclosure of optical-grade acrylic panels, oriented at 45° to the display plane, follows the Pepper's Ghost optical illusion to generate a floating 3D hologram inside the enclosure.
A computer-vision layer provides real-time hand-gesture recognition with a MediaPipe Hands model running inference on the Pi, letting visitors rotate, zoom and interact with the 3D model without touching anything. A lightweight OpenGL ES renderer, optimised for the Pi's VideoCore GPU, holds a stable 24 FPS at 720p — smooth enough for holographic display.
Compute
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B · 4 GB RAM
Capture
Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Module
Optics
Pepper's Ghost · 45° acrylic pyramid
Interaction
MediaPipe Hands gesture control
Rendering
OpenGL ES · 24 FPS @ 720p
What HamroSampada delivers
HamroSampada is an end-to-end heritage-tech platform — and every layer is live in this MVP, from 3D reconstruction and the public archive to the holographic display and native mobile AR. Not a roadmap. Deployed.
3DGS Reconstruction
Photogrammetry and 3D Gaussian Splatting turn ordinary photographs and video into photorealistic, explorable 3D records of monuments.
Digital Heritage Archive
Structured, research-grade documentation of each site — history, architecture, condition, conservation notes, coordinates and references.
Holographic Visualization
A working Raspberry Pi holographic unit projects captured monuments as floating, gesture-controlled holograms for museums and exhibitions.
Native Mobile AR
Scan a monument's QR to place it in your room — Google Scene Viewer on Android and Apple AR Quick Look on iOS, no app to install.
A growing national archive
HamroSampada is built to scale — from a handful of reference monuments today to a comprehensive record of Nepal's cultural heritage.
Help preserve Nepal's heritage in 3D
Explore the archive, experience monuments in interactive 3D, and follow a project building an open, research-grade record of our shared cultural memory.