Augmented Reality (AR) was added to the popular search engine Google a few years ago. It first launched the popular 3D animals, then dinosaurs, cars, or athletes from the last Olympics, among other objects that we can add in our living room and see from any angle with the smartphone.
Google is now bringing landmarks and monuments to you in augmented reality. Google's Arts & Culture team has added 3D virtual tours of iconic landmarks to its Search product, including important monuments like Tokyo Tower, Santa Croce, and Santa Maria Novella basilicas in Florence, and the Union Buildings in South Africa. In total Google has added augmented reality for around 98 monuments globally.
Like all AR objects in Google Search, these 3D monuments start with a rotating model that can be zoomed into. The AR viewing in Google search differs from Google Earth as it allows users to place all the 3D monuments in your environment.
The 3D models are built using 3D data from Google Earth and displayed via ModelViewer, Google's protocol for handling 3D and AR content on the web.
"Not only will you be able to navigate smoothly to each stop of the tour but objects along the way can also be viewed in AR," wrote Florent Robineau and Joe Shepherd, tech lead and associate product manager, respectively, at Google Arts & Culture on the company's website.
You can find all 98 3D monuments by searching on Android or iOS and then scrolling through the Knowledge Panel until you find the “View in 3D” card. There are quite a few different panels with the AR model ultimately becoming just another tool. Google Arts & Culture has previously brought 3D models of historic sites like Chauvet Cave, but those were recreated using 3D scanning. The latest treasure trove lacks high fidelity, but we're also dealing with much more massive structures where 3D scanning would be a Herculean feat.
Google’s augmented reality is only supported on ARCore-enabled devices. Currently, most devices launched in the past year are compatible with this technology.
The full list of compatible monuments is as follows:
Westminster Abbey
Conservatory of Flowers
British Museum London
Catalonia Square
Alhambra
Christ the Redeemer
Niteroi Museum of Contemporary Art
Place du Capitole
Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Painted Ladies
Louvre Museum
Place de la Seigneurie
Basilica of Guadalupe
Flatiron Building
Metropolitan Art Museum
Trafalgar square
Basilica of the Holy Family
The Angel of Independence
National Science Museum of Japan
Piazza Navona
Basilica of the Holy Cross
Empire State Building
Tokyo National Museum
Old bridge
Basilica of San Pedro
Aztec stage
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Brooklyn bridge
Basilica of Santa Maria Novella
Moses Mabhida Status
Neuschwanstein
Bay bridge
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Columbus statue
London Eye
Rhodes Memorial
Big ben
Statue of Liberty
One World Trade Center
Rockefeller center
Giotto’s bell tower
Trevi Fountain
Garnier opera
Meiji Shrine
Castle of Good Hope
roman forum
Palace of Fine Arts
Sense-Ji
Chapultepec Castle
Magic Fountain of Montjuïc
Buckingham Palace
Stonehenge
Sant’Angelo Castle
Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Kensington Palace
Amazon Theater
Barcelona cathedral
the golden gate bridge
Palace of Versailles
Zojoji temple
Brasilia Cathedral
Church of San Francisco de Asís
Palace of Westminster
Tokyo Sky Tree
Notre-Dame cathedral
Alcatraz Island
National palace
Torre coit
New York Cathedral
invalid
Pitti Palace
Tower of London
St Paul’s Cathedral in London
Mount Rushmore
Vecchio Palace
Pisa tower
Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore
Monument to the hero children
A Parisian pantheon
Tokyo Tower
Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
Monument to the pioneer
Pantheon in Rome
Eiffel Tower
São Paulo Metropolitan Cathedral
Monument to the Revolution
Parthenon
Ushiku Daibutsu
National Center of Art and Culture Georges Pompidou
Orsay Museum
Pier 39
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