CHENNAI: Using technologies like machine learning, augmented reality and high-definition robotic cameras, Google Arts & Culture has partnered with the National Museum in New Delhi to showcase special works of art through what they call an AR-powered art gallery.
The ‘pocket gallery’, inspired by the domes and doorways of India, allows you to use your smartphone to open up a life-size virtual space, walk around at leisure and zoom into your favourite pieces.
There are also 75 in-painting tours where you can zoom into aspects of paintings – for instance, details like wisps of smoke from firecrackers, or the embroidery of a king’s attire – which you wouldn’t be able to see well with the naked eye.
The virtual collection includes 1,200 high resolution images from 25 collections all around the world and more than 75 stories, depicting scenes that include legendary marriage processions, nature and epic battles.