Pune’s Kelkar Museum Embraces Metaverse
BharatVerse, India’s first metaverse platform, signed a memorandum of understanding with Pune’s Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum on January 10th, making it the first Indian museum to go the metaverse route.
According to a statement from BharatVerse, the platform aims to create “digital twin places of special interest” that can be visited by people all over the world and help to promote such sites.
Users will be able to access the metaverse experience via head-mounted devices, mobile phones, web browsers, and so on. To begin, the museum’s existing 3-D virtual tour, created with the assistance of noted ophthalmologist Dr Shreekant Kelkar, will be hosted on the BharatVerse platform.
Rohit Srivastwa, founder-director of BharatVerse, said, “We envision BharatVerse as a collaboratively built virtual Bharat where every square metre of the real Bharat can be showcased as it exists. We are building the platform on the three-pronged principles of collaboration, creativity and contribution. The Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum certainly deserves the use of the metaverse platform to reach to masses worldwide,”
Sudhanva Ranade, director of the museum, said, “Under the BharatVerse initiative, we will be creating a metaverse experience for the RDKM so that people can explore the museum from across the globe and plan to visit the museum when they come to Pune. We will provide an immersive experience through the metaverse so that virtual visitors can get a feeling of being present inside the museum in real time,” he said.
(With inputs from Shikha Singh)
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