{"id":342446,"date":"2017-06-01T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/31\/googles-virtual-museum-tours-tell-you-more-about-the-art\/21|22119801"},"modified":"2017-06-01T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T23:46:00","slug":"googles-virtual-museum-tours-tell-you-more-about-the-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/googles-virtual-museum-tours-tell-you-more-about-the-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s virtual museum tours tell you more about the art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/65NJfQyWuUs\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the video demonstrates, just pop open Google Maps and navigate to an institution with walking tours to find clearly-marked pieces with uploaded context, along with hyperlinks out for further information. Google used its machine learning systems to visually recognize annotations, but only pieces from participating museums are included, amounting to 15,000 works worldwide. Still, it&#8217;s bringing remote users that much closer to art they might never witness with their own eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/e2663ed52a23a0e2a1970868eda12865\/205328120\/GoogleStreetViewAnnotations.jpg\" \/>Google has built tools to explore art since 2011, when it began uploading gigapixel images of classic pieces. The tech titan introduced museum floor plans and walking tour info to Google Maps as well as its Art and Culture app, released last July, to&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-342446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}