For a while there was a VR app for Google Earth that allowed you to visit museums virtually. This is a wonderful use of modern technology.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/3-d-models-announcement-2026
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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
fubarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Beautiful works!
If viewed on an iPhone or iPad, you can take it into AR mode and drop the piece on a table in front of you, then walk around it. Don’t know if that works on Android.
poopkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Precisely the same way! Works amazingly well.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Is it possible to download the 3d models?
homes@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Every once in a while, I see something that reminds me of what the internet used to be
buffing_lecturer@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Almost like the old internet is still in there somewhere. Just gotta sort through all the shit first.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s like finding the needle in the haystack.
Now you need to find the next needle in the even bigger haystack over there. And so on. Fuck, I hate what the internet has become.
poopkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pfft they could’ve saved a lot of work and made it with AI
/s