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create a unique online exhibition featuring a staggering 300,000 
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Using the  firm's 
Street View, interactive interior shots of the famous museums enable 
people to wander its halls from the comfort of their own home.</div>
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The nine <a class="" href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/natural-history" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">virtual exhibitions</a> included
 the experience include the first T-Rex fossil ever found, extinct 
mammoths and a skull from a narwhal or 'sea unicorn'.</div>
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Google has teamed up with the London 
and Berlin Natural History Museums to create a unique online exhibition 
featuring a staggering 300,000 specimens. Pictured is the Jurassic giant
 Giraffatitan at the Berlin Natural History Museum</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Virtual visitors to the exhibition can use Google's budget Cardboard VR headset to view 360-degree YouTube videos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Museum bosses hope  the digital showcase will encourage people to reconsider the way that they look at the natural world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We
 want to challenge as many people as possible to think differently about
 the natural world, because now more than ever, understanding our past 
and present can help us all shape the future,' said Sir Michael Dixon, 
Director of the Natural History Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Working
 with Google Arts and Culture helps us to inspire the next generation of
 scientists and also to uncover new scientific insights from the 
collection using digital technology. </span></div>
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One of the VR experiences is the 
museum's Fossil Marine Reptile hall, where viewers can watch a marine 
dinosaur - Rhomaleosaurus (pictured) come back to life and swim the 
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Using
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project has captured some of the institutions' most famous halls 
including<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> Kensington's Hintze Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hintze boasts a ceiling adorned with 162 intricate panels displaying plants from around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Another shows the biodiversity wall in the Berlin museum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In this installation 3,000 mounted species are on display, which is a fraction of currently living species known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">About
 1.8 million animal and plant species have so far been scientifically 
described, recorded and named, and new species are constantly discovered
 and documented.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">Another of the </span><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1AvqYXwHQ" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">VR experiences </a><span style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">is
 the museum's Fossil Marine Reptile hall, where viewers can watch a 
marine reptile - Rhomaleosaurus - come back to life and swim the 
corridors of the museum.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> </span></div>
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A marine reptile which lived 180 million years ago, users can watch as it roams the gallery.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This is the first step in a great new journey of discovery.'</span></div>
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One of the <a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1AvqYXwHQ" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">VR experiences </a>is
 the museum's Fossil Marine Reptile hall, where viewers can watch a 
marine reptile - Rhomaleosaurus - come back to life and swim the 
corridors of the museum.</div>
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A marine reptile which lived 180 million years ago, users can watch as it roams the gallery.</div>
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They see its muscles,  movement and the texture of its skin, and learn all about how it lived.</div>
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The sea monster was diligently recreated with the help of the museum's scientists.</div>
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Using
 gigapixel technology to capture incredibly high resolution images, the 
project has captured some of the institutions' most famous halls 
including<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> Kensington's Hintze Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hintze boasts a ceiling adorned with 162 intricate panels displaying plants from around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Another shows the biodiversity wall in the Berlin museum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In this installation 3,000 mounted species are on display, which is a fraction of currently living species known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">About
 1.8 million animal and plant species have so far been scientifically 
described, recorded and named, and new species are constantly discovered
 and documented.</span></div>
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The 360 video above shows the Berlin's
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Technology
 can be used not only to make museum's treasures accessible to people 
around the world, but also to create new experiences for museum-goers, 
said Amit Sood, Director of the Google Cultural Institute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Starting
 in 2011, the Google Cultural Institute has helped more than 1,000 
cultural institutions open up their collections for any citizen of the 
world with access to the web, a computer, or a mobile phone.'</span></div>
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Virtual visitors to the exhibition can use Google's budget Cardboard VR headset (pictured) to view 360-degree YouTube videos. <i>dailymail</i></div>
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                    <span style="font-weight: bold;">GOOGLE'S LOW-TECH VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSET </span>                </h3>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Google last year revealed a bizarre low-tech toy - a virtual reality headset made of cardboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The gadget was given out to attendees at the firm's annual developer conference, and can also be created at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It uses a mobile phones as the display, with a special app to show 3D images and video. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 'cardboard' gadget was passed to attendees when they left the firm's 
keynote, which revealed new version of android for phones, TVs, cars and
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'With your phone and a piece of Cardboard you can see some pretty amazing stuff,' the firm said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We want everyone to experience virtual reality in a simple, fun, and inexpensive way.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years,' it continued.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware,' Google said on the project's page. </span><i>dailymail</i></div>
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<li><a class="js-tl" href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/project/natural-history" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Natural History - Google Arts & Culture</a></li>
<li id="ext-gen74"><a class="js-tl" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1AvqYXwHQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rhomaleosaurus: Back to Life in Virtual Reality #PreviouslyOnEarth - YouTube</a></li>
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