It’s superb what a robust driver human curiosity is. simply look into Google’s noble however pretty unexciting Google Arts & Culture app — unnoticed by most till it launched a feature last week that allow users match their selfies to faces in illustrious artworks.
Now, since a minimum of this weekend forward, it’s been riding high because the most-downloaded free app on each iOS and automaton. Heavy-hitters like traveller and YouTube are left within the dirt. Even, uh, Sweatcoin (which apparently enables you to mine cryptocurrency by walking somehow?) has fallen behind.
The app itself has been out there since 2016, and offers a powerful mixture of articles and options on artists and humanistic discipline. It’s additionally an amazing catalogue of artworks, rental you explore by totally different designs, time periods — even colours.
But really, congratulations should have to be compelled to whoever at Google thought of victimisation some fairly easy biometric identification technical school to match selfies to paintings. I hope they got a raise. Even celebrities are making an attempt it out:
Torn between that one i feel is best likeness with the Google Arts and Culture app. pic.twitter.com/uSw8RmOip8
— Felicia Day (@feliciaday) January thirteen, 2018
Hey this one ain’t thus unhealthy. pic.twitter.com/er0FxZNVO8
— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) January thirteen, 2018
The only drawback is that Google Arts & Culture has been a victim of its own success. It’s not clear however wide out there the selfie-matching feature is outside of the United States of America (it may well be restricted in Europe attributable to the EU’s laws on biometric identification tech). This has crystal rectifier to quite a couple of discontent reviews from users overseas. They love Arts & Culture, however providing they will get their selfies matched 1st.
Google’s arts and culture app obtaining bombarded with one star reviews within the GB for not having the what illustrious design does one seem like feature pic.twitter.com/noTUlRDcRv
— James Titcomb (@jamestitcomb) January sixteen, 2018
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