Peter here, the video game that explores the Vatican Bazilica

Amido Lomoco – Vatican City

Peter here: Amnesty International Cultural Heritage (Pedro here: Artificial Intelligence of Cultural Heritage). This is the title of the new project developed by Minecraft of Microsoft in cooperation with San Pedro Factory. It is an interactive video game that combines history and artificial intelligence, providing an opportunity to explore the Vatican Bazilica. The re -created scenarios provide a digitally rebuilt world, which is a graphical environment with content in which beauty and spirituality merge.

The initiative was presented in Rome, at the headquarters of the Foreign Press Association. Cardinal Mauro Gambetti enters the press conference, ARCIPREST from the Vatican Bazilica, who referred to the goal of this project: “Bachelica brought St. Peter to people through artificial intelligence as well as encouraging spiritual experience.”

Cardinal recalled that Pope Francis, in his message to a manager Correier Dela SerraHe stressed what is necessary to “disarm the words.” Instead, it is necessary to “collect hearts with the desire for beauty and brotherhood.” This is the intention, as Arciprest said in the Vatican Bazilica, which was born “Peter here”. A project presented on the eve of the San Jose party: “We want to put this educational initiative under the auspices of Maria’s husband, the teacher par excellence.”

“With Microsoft and Minecraft, we have been particularly thought about the world of children and the smallest, which also suggests the possibility of knowing San Pedro and the Vatican Bazilica.” The video “thanks to the synergy installed between humanity and technology” is done.

The beauty of the game

For Cardinal Gambetti, the video game has an educational value above all: a “tool to learn to enjoy and learn fun” is presented. In the Vatican in the Vatican, Arciprest in the Vatican, in particular, summoned a passage from the book of proverbs in which wisdom is presented as a companion of God in the work of creation and at a certain moment he says: “I was with him as a Creator and that was his joy every day; he played in front of him at every moment, he played a role in the world.”

Playing, wisdom creates and “unites the material world of the spiritual world.” “Those who play with this video game, they will have the opportunity to try their luck with creative architectural interventions, to discover the history of Bazilica, to restore it, to enter the hidden meanings that contain it. Live in an experience with others to build and win together in the spirit of brotherhood.”

The real heroes are the players

In the interview granted to the Vatican news, Cardinal Gambetti said, “This video game was conceived as a bridge between what belongs to man and what technology is available.” In reference to parents, who are concerned about the strong when they see that their children spend a lot of time in front of video games, Cardinal said that in this case “they can be calm: it is a game that leaves time for the players, and they are not dragged into the virtual world but they are heroes.”

Video non -anesthesia game

Virtual scenarios can have a real effect on knowledge. Alison Matthews, of Microsoft, remembered the video game capabilities: “Minecraft, in particular, is a virtual world without limits, a learning platform.”

Regarding the United States, Microsoft President Brad Smith expressed his enthusiasm for the project, qualifying him as an important opportunity to spread knowledge about the San Pedro Church around the world. Dr. Mauro Antonelli, head of the Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of Education and Merit, explained that this initiative “is a good example of how technology is used for educational purposes.” “The model exists and uses the game to make multidisciplinary educational issues attractive.”

“This video game will allow millions of students to discover the exceptional, not historical heritage, for Bazilica in San Pedro,” said Monsignor Carlo Maria Bolvani, Secretary of Decastirio for Culture and Education. “We live in a world in which video games tend to anesthetize players.” In this case, “the game instead suggests the multidisciplinary issues and forms of inclusion as well.”

How to play “Peter here”

“We would like to become the official game for the second day of the second world, to be held in 2026,” said Father Enzo Fortonato, editor -in -chief of “Piaza Saint Petro” magazine.

students Massimo Institute They had the opportunity to show how to play the video game “Peter here”Available to all users licensed in the Minecraft Lessons Library.

Students and teachers can access a free test from MINECRAFT Eduction Download the Application and start the Office 365 or Microsoft 365 Eduction session.

Teachers can also reach a Presentation Ready for the semester with organized instructions and laptops for students who encourage the commitment and contextual understanding of each restoration site.