user-level smartphone AR-приложение (augmented reality — augmented reality) works like Shazam: put the camera at the exhibit and got prompted. It is in such an advanced electronic guide. For each Museum need to pre-inject the base of the tips (about the way we draw a map of the city Navigator) to work. This is a couple of megabytes quickly. In tooltips you can see not only the description of the exhibit, but, for example, the stages of its restoration — anything you think of the developers. ARTEFACT can "eat" any image, not necessarily a living exhibit. It is enough even to make a picture postcard or an illustration to recognize it if it has in its database.

App ARTEFACT is conceived as a unified software platform for all museums to use ready and did not spend budget money for their own individual applications.

In the Play Market there are several programs called Artefact, so look at the screenshot.

To try and evaluate the application, the Ministry of culture invites you to a free photo exhibition in Muzeon Park until April 15. The exhibition "the Art of restoration. Fans" organized by the GRC to them. Academician I. E. Grabar and the Museum "Ostankino".

While in the database "Artifact" introduced exhibits only 12 museums:

• State Museum-усадьба "Arkhangelsk";
• State historical-культурный and natural Museum-заповедник A. S. Griboedov "hmelita";
• Vologda state istoriko-архитектурный art Museum-заповедник;
• State Museum Association "Art culture of Russian North";
• the Kirov regional state budgetary institution of culture "Vyatka art Museum named after V. M. and A. M. Vasnetsov";
• the State Museum of ceramics and "Manor Kuskovo XVIII century";
• Nizhny Novgorod state art Museum;
• the Novocherkassk Museum of don Cossack history;
• Samara regional art Museum;
• Yaroslavl art Museum;
• Totma Museum Association;
• the Museum-усадьба "Ostankino" (Moscow).

Little. However after three-четыре month to augmented reality application will connect the database for individual exhibitions the Tretyakov gallery and the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin.

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Source: mkrf.ru, artinvestment.ru