Google releases the AR Art museum function 'Pocket Gallery' that allows you to appreciate Vermeer scattered throughout the world at once

Google updated the AR art museum application "Google Arts & Culture" and installed the new function " Pocket Gallery ". Pocket Gallery has made it possible to appreciate the works of Johannes Vermeen at once.

An art gallery in your pocket: See Vermeer's paintings in augmented reality
https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/art-gallery-your-pocket-see-vermeers-paintings-augmented-reality/

In 1990, a case was stolen from the Isabella, Stewart, Gardner Museum of Art in Boston, USA, painting equivalent to a price of 500 million dollars (about 56 billion yen), and I lost track of where Vermeer's work "The Concert" was. The masterpiece of 17 points of Vermeer excluding The Concert is kept in the art museum in 7 countries in the world and it is possible to appreciate the work, but it is necessary to travel around the world, and these works It is impossible to watch at once.

Google will add a new feature "Pocket Gallery" to Google Arts & Culture by working with the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands and the cultural organization that protects the Vermeer's heritage, and use a smartphone to cast a Vermeer work on the AR space at once I succeeded in gathering it.

You can check how you view the Vermeer's work at once at AR Art Museum in the following movie.

# MeetVermeer - The Dutch Master behind the Girl With A Pearl Earring - YouTube


AR art museum built in smartphone

The interior is like this.

Click on the image below to see the inside of AR art gallery played with GIF animation.

A total of 36 points including " Pearl Earrings Girl " are available for viewing at Pocket Gallery.

There are also works with guided tours such as " a woman with a flute ".

About 8 of them, it is possible to appreciate at the highest resolution shot by a super high resolution robot camera specially made for artwork.

Google also has a special page on Vermeer's work for Japan.

https://artsandculture.google.com/project/vermeer

Pocket Gallery that can enjoy Vermeer works can be used with the following "Google Arts & Culture" application of Android · iOS. In addition, terminals that support ARCore for Android version and ARKit for iOS version are necessary.

Google Arts & Culture - Apps on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.cultural

Google Arts & Culture on the App Store
https://itunes.apple.com/app/google-pocket-gallery/id1050970557