What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike detail. Join Sood and Google artist in residence Cyril Diagne in a mind-bending demo of experiments from the Cultural Institute and glimpse the exciting future of accessibility to arts and culture. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

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1. wow! Its really exciting me, when this will be available for the public?
2. this allows creative minds to have a vivid view of such priceless art pieces FREELY.. thank you google for giving such accessibility!
3. Where is the face matcher???
4. AMAZING.. im inlove!! so perfect
5. молодцы!
6. how does this affect art dealers?
7. Maybe the machine thinks "I miss my pre-Internet brain" is happy because it's so yellow?
8. Is this Big Bang feature available on the website now? I can't find it.
9. Is this available on VR???
10. Now that's a TED talk.
11. really exciting and terrific.
12. this is why the internet was invented, long overdue. bring in 3d modelling and scanning of statues/art pieces and locations. That way some of the rampant vandalism in some areas of the world can be minimised.
13. Amazing!
14. this is amazing
15. How do I use this art app
16. What is the website called
17. this is amazing...
18. Seems fun. Minus the art part.
19. I like the app. As an art student, it helped me so much in art theory and research project. Especially when you want to find a rare artwork or an art made from uncommon materials.
20. Google Arts & Culture app
    https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/