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Virtual tour? Since when is a virtual tour a collection of pictures in a random order? Walking in a museum is also about the sense of space and how everything is organized. Such abuse of words.

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Perhaps it doesn't work for every museum, but for the one I tried (Van Gogh Museum) you can get a Street View-like view where you can actually move around the museum and look around, by clicking the yellow human street view icon.

I just walked through Rijksmuseum using street view and checked out Louis XIV chamber from Versailles on 3D. Not to mention a couple of very detailed interactive analyses of some paintings telling their story and highlighting details I would normally completely miss. I think this is awesome and impressive on how much content there is.

Maybe someday we'll have a full 3D VR tour, but there's a lot of great stuff there already.

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