The Grand Palais museum in Paris is offering Google Glass-guided tours of its recently launched exhibit dedicated to the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. The Glass-based tours are the work of Acoustiguide, a longtime provider of interactive content for museums, galleries and similar public facilities. The news release also says that GuidiGo’s Glass software is being [...]

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The Grand Palais museum in Paris is offering Google Glass-guided tours of its recently launched exhibit dedicated to the Spanish painter Diego Velazquez.

The Glass-based tours are the work of Acoustiguide, a longtime provider of interactive content for museums, galleries and similar public facilities. The news release also says that GuidiGo’s Glass software is being used in the tours.

Acoustiguide says it’s created a Glass-based experience for each piece of art in the exhibit involving music, videos, images and additional commentary on what the viewer is seeing.

Agnès Alfandari, Vice President of Digital Strategy at Acoustiguide, stresses: “The major advantage of the glasses is that you can look at the painting itself and simultaneously view or listen to audiovisual content, without this hindering viewing the picture. The glasses are simple to use and so light you completely forget you are wearing them, which enables you to concentrate on the artwork while you are shown its most interesting details.”

The Glass-guided tours are an extra 8 euros, and the exhibit is open through July 13. So if you’re headed to Paris between now and then, here’s something extra to put on your itinerary.

(Photo via Creative Commons.)

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