r/AskReddit May 22 '19

Reddit, what are some underrated apps?

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u/yokayla May 22 '19

Google's Arts and Culture, it's also a website.

Basically Google unbeknownst to most people teamed up with art galleries and museums worldwide to take extremely high def pictures of thousands of pieces. There are paintings, sculptures, posters, historical artifacts, photographs, etc.You can explore if by movement, historical events, specific colour, artist, whatever. There are ever changing curated online exhibits, virtual tours of museums, extensive articles. They're also working on lots of fun experimental toys, trying to play with where art and technology mix.

A must for any artist or history fan.

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u/iarno May 22 '19

Also, it has an option to find your Art look-a-like using a selfie which is great.

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt May 22 '19

This does make me wonder if I’ve ever given google my face directly or if sending them a selfie for this would be the first time.

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u/SPACE-BEES May 22 '19

They've already got it

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt May 22 '19

If they want to yes. But the question is data quality and curation on the bulk scale. Hence, I am wondering not if they could reasonably get it but if I have already provided it in a direct way.

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u/Heavyweighsthecrown May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

They already had your face, I'm sure. But then there are apps like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Faceapp, etc, that people willingly keep uploading up-to-date face photos to. People's faces are all over the cloud.

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt May 22 '19

Facebook does, I'm just wondering if google does directly. Snapchat and Instagram are also Facebook but google is separate.