Google will take you to visit historical sites with virtual reality technology

Google is partnering with CyArk, a non-profit organization that preserves world cultural heritage in digital form in a bold project to record VR models of historical sites.

The purpose of the Open Heritage project is to protect historical sites around the world from the risk of being devastated by natural disasters and human impacts.

According to The Verge, CyArk will be responsible for collecting and processing relational-related data using advanced 3D laser scanning techniques. Through the massive database of historical monuments stored in CyArk's system, anyone can visit and explore remote relics via computers, smartphones and VR devices.

Chance Coughenour, an archaeologist and manager at the Google Arts and Culture division, shared in the press release: "Thanks to the help of modern technology, we can see the magnificent architecture. With more detail than ever before, from color to surface textures and shapes, they were all captured by laser scanners with millimeters accuracy. "

Coughenour also revealed, the data collected also contributed to identify areas of damage and need repair.

Google Arts & Culture is the foundation and application released since 2011. The app provides close-up views of artworks, contributing to preserving them over time. Google Arts & Culture brings an exhibition space with a performance style like Google Street View. There, viewers can go through each piece of art and watch them if they like.

In recent years, the application continues to share more art and culture, especially Google Arts & Culture also has useful VR tours and other educational tools. .

Meanwhile, CyArk nonprofit organization was founded in Oakland, USA in 2003 with the principle of a channel to access cultural and humanistic values ​​through technology.

CyArk began its mission to recreate historical sites with laser mapping technology since the Taliban terrorist group destroyed a 1,500-year-old Buddhist statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan in 2001.

The process of digital mapping of historical sites is quite difficult and arduous.

Over the past 7 years, CyArk has partnered with more than 1500 museums from more than 70 countries around the world to provide a rich database of historical monuments around the world.

Currently, this organization has recreated a complete 24 historic sites from 18 countries around the world under the VR experience model. These include famous places like the Al Azem palace in Damascus, Syria or the ruins of Chichen Itza city in Mexico.