The Internet giant has an agreement with some eighteen castles of the Loire. Visitors can now discover virtually through the Street View capture technology.
Google reconciles the ancients and the moderns. The Internet giant expands once again his kingdom. Already a partner of more than 1,000 museums and cultural institutions in the world, the US company has an agreement with 18 castles of the Loire, which can now be visited virtually.
“Everyone has not the chance to move into the Loire Valley to see with his own eyes these wonders, “says the Google cultural Institute, a subsidiary of Paris-based group working on the digitization of works of art exhibited in museums around the world. And to clarify: “. This is why we decided to develop through digital tools and technologies developed to the cultural sector”
With the Street View capture technology, several castles of the Loire whose those of Chambord, Chenonceau or Azay-le-Rideau, and four gardens can now be visited virtually 360 °, including usually closed to the public. Also, seven of the 18 sites can be flown in three dimensions thanks to aerial photographs of, vertical and 45 °.
Another fully automated technology, “Art Camera”, in extremely high resolution, reveals details of an invisible work of art with the naked eye, such as the “oriental ceiling” of the Château de Villandry, or the Apocalypse Tapestry of Angers (over 100 meters long)
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This new process thus marks a technological breakthrough compared to say the “Gigapixel”, applied in March 2016 twelve paintings by Pieter Bruegel in eight major museums including the Fine Arts in Brussels, or the MET in New York.
Already well established in the art world, Google has recently turned to theater, dance, music and opera. Cultural institute, in this logic, concluded agreements with over sixty institutions from 21 countries, Moscow’s Bolshoi to National Theater of Korea or the Lincoln Center in New York at the House of World Cultures in Paris.
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