Museum curators typically frown upon visitors touching paintings, sculptures, and artifacts, but not when those exhibits are displayed in augmented reality.
The latest AR exhibit from Google Arts & Culture not only lets you virtually touch the displays but also make your own audio art.
সার্জারির এ আর সিন্থ web-based AR experience anchors replicas of up to five electronic music machines in your space simultaneously. Each virtual instrument includes a sequencer interface where you can add and remove notes or click the dice icon to create a randomized sequence.
The instruments featured in AR Synth include the Moog Memorymoog and ARP Odyssey synthesizers, the Roland CR78 drum machine, the Akai S900 floppy disk sampler, and the Fairlight CMI music station.
Google’s AR experience is limited to mobile browsers on Android devices, since ARCore’s flavor of web-based AR is not compatible with iOS. However, AR Synth is available as a non-AR 3D experience on Android, iOS, and desktop browsers.
The experiment is part of the Music, Makers, & Machines exhibit, an joint effort between Google Arts & Culture and YouTube to pay tribute to the history of electronic music.
“In the 126 years since, electronic music has evolved in similarly bold and ingenious ways, a testament to the magic that occurs when human beings build and interact with machines. We listen to it while working out, riding the subway, studying for exams — and hopefully soon again at the clubs and festivals that have made it what it is today,” said Simon Rein, program manager for Google Arts & Culture, in a ব্লগ পোস্ট. “We hope that Music, Makers & Machines will let you explore and appreciate the stories of electronic music and celebrate the creativity of its makers.”
বর্তমানে, Arcore, লাইভ ভিউ AR navigation in Google Maps, and এআর বিষয়বস্তু in Google Search are the crown jewels of Google’s AR products and services, but the output from Google Arts & Culture is truly underrated in terms of creativity, immersion, and educational value.
The team’s app for আইওএস এবং অ্যান্ড্রয়েড অন্তর্ভুক্ত AR art galleries and virtual replicas of historic landmarks like চৌভেট গুহা ফ্রান্সে এবং Nine Dome Mosque in Bangladesh. Google Arts & Culture has also branched out with standalone AR apps like উল্লেখযোগ্য নারী এবং বিগ ব্যাং এআর.
But AR Synth might be the most fun project that the team has created to date, particularly if you have musical bones in your body. The only thing it’s missing is a record button.
