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Google's Arts & Culture app lets users explore artworks, artifacts
Covering over 1,000 museums across 70 countries, Google has launched a new website and app called Google Arts & Culture
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A relief at Borobudur Temple is showcased on Google's Art & Culture application. (Google/-)
Covering over 1,000 museums across 70 countries, Google has launched a new website and app called Google Arts & Culture.
Introduced by the Google Cultural Institute, the platform offers an exploration of art across time, allowing users to search for specific things such as statues from 100 AD, or the color blue in movements such as Pop Art.
The app features Google Cardboard, an innovation that allows 360-degree virtual tours of the world’s most famous heritage sites. Google Arts & Culture also includes a function that carefully zooms in and out of prized pieces of artwork. Users can experience the beauty by probing through timeframes, historic events, colors and themes in art and historical figures.
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Google has also been toying with an augmented reality concept called the Art Recognizer, which enables users to look up museum opening hours and to point their screens at a piece of artwork to pull up information about it. Set to be implemented in museums across the world, the concept is currently only available at London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
View the video below to explore more about art and culture. (jam/kes)
