ART AND ABOUT.
This summer you can step out of your lounge (virtually) and onto the global canvas of the arts and culture scene. Google Arts & Culture is a contemporary touchstone to artists, art installations and modern museums and your historical lodestar into art’s rich past to navigate important events and influential people.
This app offers something for the whole family, making arts accessible by providing an entry pass to the vibrant, expanding world of culture. It’s a mix of fun, interactive experiences and valuable enlightening information. Ever pictured yourself as the Mona Lisa? Hold that smile, because now you can. The app lets you take a selfie and compare your face to images from great works of art. Since you won’t be heading to Paris this season, how about having a night at the museum in your living room? Through the power of the app, you and your family can visit via immersive 360-degree video recordings to explore a museum halfway around the world as if you were really there. Instead of facing great artworks behind glass, amid restless queues of people, view them at home in incredible zoomable high-definition. Add theatre and music happenings to the app mix and you’ve got your cultural landscape mapped out for you, while the technology platform lets you easily share insights and experiences on social media.
To find the app follow this link: https://artsandculture.google.com
GO TO A DARK PLACE. GET ENLIGHTENED.
There’s light at the end of this lockdown tunnel. But before we get there, how about exploring some dark mysterious spaces?
We’re talking caves here. If you’re feeling strong Dark Knight superhero vibes then an interactive 360-degree virtual visit will give you a taste of the otherworldly experience a real cave tour offers, and you won’t need a Batsuit to do it.
Try virtual cave tour experiences from across the globe. You can head hundreds of feet underground to explore the mysteries of caverns shaped over millions of years, from your home, either led by a virtual guide offering facts and insights or by exploring on your own.
Here are some virtual tour guides to caves:
https://www.tourdeforce360.com/carlsbad/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news-features/sondoong-cave/2/#s=pano37
https://360.goterest.com/sphere/rat-s-nest-cave
CAN’T TRAVEL NOW? HOW ABOUT TIME TRAVEL?
Who needs passport control when you can use remote control? Time travel is now in the palm of your hands at home with tech-driven trips back into history.
Virtual Tourism has made it possible to access incredible places and to discover history from a whole new perspective. Digital technology enables you to overcome limitations of space and to witness the great cultural heritage sites of the world from the comfort of your living room.
Using your phone, tablet, computer or a VR headset, you can be teleported back in time and get immersed in an awe-inspiring historical location, in an instant. A virtual tour does way more than simply take you to see the monuments as they look today.
Where sites have been damaged or partially destroyed, you can view utterly realistic virtual reconstructions of how they originally looked. You can literally go back in time and experience the world’s great heritage sites the way the people did back then. Flyover Zone creates tours of cultural heritage sites that empower you to explore a destination as your curiosity leads you, in a first-person experience.
Have a look at their world: https://www.flyoverzone.com/
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