Google App Arts Culture How to Do Selfie

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Google Arts & Culture app goes viral with new selfie feature

JP Mangalindan

The Google Arts & Culture app has been effectually since 2016, just it wasn't until Google ( GOOG , GOOGL ) introduced a new selfie feature that the app went viral in a big way.

Google Arts & Culture rolled out a feature assuasive people who took selfies with the app to get matched upwards with faces from museum artworks around the earth. The app quickly rocketed to the elevation and became the No. i gratuitous app in Google'south and Apple tree'due south (AAPL) app stores this past weekend. Celebrities like Kristen Bong, Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani, and actress Minnie Driver posted screen grabs of their selfies, and many social media users saw their feeds and streams flooded with friends and followers doing the same. (Although if you alive in Illinois and Texas, you won't be able to use the new feature because of privacy laws.)

Kristen Bell instagramming about Google Arts & Culture app
Kristen Bell instagramming well-nigh Google Arts & Civilization app
Minnie Driver instagrams about Google Arts & Culture app
Minnie Driver instagrams virtually Google Arts & Culture app

"People love the idea of selfies and sharing their photos," explained Susan Etlinger, an analyst at the San Francisco-based Altimeter Group. "That'southward but one of the drivers of the internet today. And to connect that back to art is astonishing. Information technology's just a really fun experiment to see what information technology [the app] comes up with."

Google Arts & Culture is the latest app to go viral considering of its selfie feature. The app also lets users explore thousands of photos, videos and artworks, from images of Mayan glyphs to a collection African wood, metal and rock carvers.

The article's author trying out Google Arts & Culture's new selfie feature, which went viral last weekend. Accurate or nah? Source: Yahoo Finance
The article'south author trying out Google Arts & Culture's new selfie feature, which went viral concluding weekend. Authentic or nah? Source: Yahoo Finance

In June 2016, an app called Prisma also quickly became popular when information technology used artificial intelligence and image recognition to offer photograph filters that transformed your photos into an illustration inspired past the styles of famous artists, including Edvard Munch, Edgar Degas and Piet Mondrian. Similarly, Prisma users flooded social media with their photos, although not quite to the same star-studded extent as Google Arts & Culture users.

What remains to be seen with Google Arts & Culture's recent success is whether information technology'due south only a passing fad or whether this latest social media phenomenon has more than longevity to information technology. To wit, although Prisma has been downloaded l million times since it launched, the visitor behind information technology recently switched its focus from consumers to developers.

Regardless, expect to meet more aesthetic side-by-side selfies flood your social media in the days to come.

JP Mangalindan is the Chief Tech Correspondent for Yahoo Finance covering the intersection of tech and business. Email story tips and musings to jpm@adjuration.com. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook.

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