Gigapixels and infrared: this is how we will visit museums without leaving home

Until now, the most innovative way to visit a museum allowed the viewer to enjoy a virtual tour of its rooms.

Now a new technical advance that digitizes images in

format

, with a resolution of between one hundred and one thousand times greater than that of a normal digital camera, goes a step further.

At the forefront of this technology, the one developed by the Spanish company

contributes to transforming the viewer's experience, together with the museum's business model. Its main ally is

, an intelligent robot designed by the company that, as can be seen in the video that accompanies this news, digitizes both the works of art and the spaces that house them and allows the viewer to visit the art centers in the company of who decides.

In the report we show a fragment of the first live guided tour organized by the company next to the

museum

in The Hague (Netherlands), home of the famous

, by Johannes Vermeer. During the tour, visitors were able to view the works through

'super eyes'

, capable of capturing every last detail of the brush strokes, and of scanning the works in infrared to even glimpse the original sketch of the paintings.