Transform Your Living Room Into an Art Museum With This IOS App
We hear a lot about how isolation from COVID-19 has impacted small businesses and restaurants, but it affects every aspect of our culture. Museums and art galleries are no exception, but as long as you have an iPhone, there is a way to bring art exhibitions to your home, which is virtually.
The new app ” [AR] T Museum ” – short for “Augmented Reality Museum of Art” – allows users to hang famous paintings on their walls and admire them through their iPhones or iPads.
Once the painting is set, you can walk around and view it from different angles on your device’s screen, as if it were actually hanging in your home. It’s a graceful effect and a great way to see some of the finest artwork humans have ever created. It is also worth looking at your walls.
The app was created by Cuseum, a company that develops mobile phone apps and add-ons for museums to help them improve their exhibits. The e [AR] T Museum app features paintings from six museums and plans to add more museums and exhibitions in the future.
Some fine arts purists may laugh at the very notion of viewing these works of art on their phone. Sure, viewing paintings in AR probably won’t evoke the same emotions as viewing physical paintings in person , but research from Cuseum suggests that our brains find digital paintings as aesthetic as real ones. I suppose that will be enough given the current state of the world.
[ 9to5Mac ]