You know that Google thing were you can see you house from space or a street view right on your computer? Ya I thought so. Well dig this, Google has released the Google Art Project a program allowing users to view several famous museums around the world from their very home.
The program works much like Google's Street View program. You select a museum and if you have an idea of a particular piece you can search it directly. But if you have no idea you can just open up the floor map and jump right in a first person view of the museums halls and rooms.
It's pretty cool, you can walk from room to room and if a particular piece interest you one must just simply select it and it will provide a close up view along with information.
Unfortunately the user interface is a difficult hassle to work with. Many times you select an arrow towards a direction in which takes you to another room altogether. So you have to slowly turn around through what seems to be endless loads. I would suggest a wasd style. Another issue is many of the in cased items have a nasty glare reflecting off of them making it difficult to see.
But overall very cool for Google to do. It just needs a few tweaks and it will be good to go and show the world art.
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