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TimesLIVE
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- TimesLIVE
Microsoft to showcase Notre-Dame Cathedral in digital replica
Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral, France's most visited monument, the US tech company's president Brad Smith said on Monday. The 862-year-old Gothic masterpiece was reopened last December after a five-year restoration after a devastating fire in 2019. A digital replica will serve as a record of the building's architectural details, Microsoft said. It will also provide a virtual experience for visitors and those unable to visit. The cathedral became a symbol of Paris and France after Victor Hugo used it as a setting for his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dam e. Quasimodo, the main character, has been portrayed in Hollywood movies, an animated Disney adaptation and in musicals. Last year Microsoft worked with Iconem, a French company that specialises in digitalisation of heritage sites, on a digital replica of St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. 'One of the things we learnt from the work at St Peter's is how a digital twin can help support the ongoing maintenance of a building. Because you capture a digital record of every centimetre and what is there and what it's supposed to look like,' Smith told Reuters. 'The ability to create a digital twin right now I think will provide an enormously valuable digital record that I believe people are going to be using 100 years from now,' he said. Since 2019 Microsoft has digitally preserved heritage sites and events, including:
NDTV
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Microsoft To Build Digital Replica Of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral
Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, France's most visited monument, the US tech company's president, Brad Smith, said on Monday. The 862-year-old Gothic masterpiece was reopened last December after a five-year restoration following a devastating fire in 2019. A digital replica will serve as a record of the building's architectural details, Microsoft said. It will also provide a virtual experience for visitors and those unable to visit. The cathedral became a symbol of Paris and France after Victor Hugo used it as a setting for his 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Quasimodo, the main character, has been portrayed in Hollywood movies, an animated Disney adaptation and in musicals. Last year, Microsoft worked with Iconem, a French company that specialises in digitalisation of heritage sites, on a digital replica of St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. "One of the things we learned from the work at St Peter's is how a digital twin can help support the ongoing maintenance of a building. Because you capture a digital record of every centimetre and what is there and what it's supposed to look like," Smith told Reuters. "The ability to create a digital twin right now I think will provide an enormously valuable digital record that I believe people are going to be using 100 years from now," he said. Since 2019, Microsoft has digitally preserved heritage sites and events including Ancient Olympia in Greece, Mont Saint-Michel in France and the 80th Anniversary of the Allied Beach Landings in Normandy.
Euronews
3 days ago
- Euronews
Microsoft to make Notre-Dame ‘digital twin' in Europe AI push
Notre-Dame Cathedral took five years to rebuild after the devastating fire, but a digital duplicate would have been much easier, Microsoft's president Brad Smith noted last November. On Monday, he announced that the theory was being put to the test and stated that the Cathedral, built in 1345, would be getting a digital twin. The digital replica of Notre-Dame is being created with the French culture ministry's heritage institute and the start-up Iconem. It combines advanced imaging with artificial intelligence (AI) to produce the digital twin. The aim is to 'preserve permanently in digital form every detail of Notre Dame, ensuring that its structure, story, and symbolism are protected and accessible for generations to come,' Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft, said in a blog post. The digital twin would be donated to the French State and 'can be used by preservationists and be displayed in the future Musée Notre Dame de Paris,' he added. The project will also digitise historic opera sets and millions of artefacts with leading French cultural institutions, such as 1,5000 cinematic model sets from shows at the Opéra National de Paris between 1800 and 1914. Microsoft the aim is the project is to make the collections accessible to as many people as possible, via interactive experiences on its platform The precise budget and completion date for the project are not yet known, but Smith told French media that the operation would take at least a year to complete and will probably cost several million dollars. The project follows a partnership with the Vatican to digitise St. Peter's Basilica. Microsoft also announced on Monday that it would expand its innovation centres in Strasbourg to boost the development of Europe's languages in AI models, especially underrepresented European languages, to make the technology more inclusive. Microsoft's Windows currently includes 90 languages, including the 24 official European languages, as well as Basque, Catalan, Galician and Luxembourgish. The American company aims to develop its languages and enrich its stock of multilingual data by collecting data from sound recordings left on the GitHub platform. Microsoft said that it would then host and make the data 'broadly accessible' on the platform Hugging Face. 'The European project' Microsoft is trying to build its brand in Europe and announced earlier this year a plan called European Digital Commitments. The company said its aim is to expand AI and cloud infrastructure, strengthen digital resilience and data privacy protections, enhance cybersecurity, and support Europe's digital sovereignty and broader economy. However, Europe is also trying to push for its own sovereign cloud infrastructure and is championing its own AI large language models (LLMs) to become less dependent on Big Tech companies. This includes, for example, multilingual text data from GitHub and voice data sets. MOIC and GitHub will partner with Hugging Face, a popular collaboration platform for AI model development, to host and make the data broadly accessible.
France 24
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- France 24
The Bright Side: Microsoft partners with French government to create Notre-Dame's digital replica
Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris ' Notre-Dame Cathedral, France 's most visited monument, the US tech company's president, Brad Smith, said on Monday. The 862-year-old Gothic masterpiece was reopened last December after a five-year restoration following a devastating fire in 2019. A digital replica will serve as a record of the building's architectural details, Microsoft said. It will also provide a virtual experience for visitors and those unable to visit. The cathedral became a symbol of Paris and France after Victor Hugo used it as a setting for his 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". Quasimodo, the main character, has been portrayed in Hollywood movies, an animated Disney adaptation and in musicals. Last year, Microsoft worked with Iconem, a French company that specialises in digitalisation of heritage sites, on a digital replica of St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. "One of the things we learned from the work at St Peter's is how a digital twin can help support the ongoing maintenance of a building. Because you capture a digital record of every centimetre and what is there and what it's supposed to look like," Smith told Reuters. "The ability to create a digital twin right now I think will provide an enormously valuable digital record that I believe people are going to be using 100 years from now," he said. Since 2019, Microsoft has digitally preserved heritage sites and events including Ancient Olympia in Greece, Mont Saint-Michel in France and the 80th Anniversary of the Allied Beach Landings in Normandy.
Business Recorder
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Recorder
Microsoft to help France showcase Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in digital replica
Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, France's most visited monument, the U.S. tech company's president, Brad Smith, said on Monday. The 862-year-old Gothic masterpiece was reopened last December after a five-year restoration following a devastating fire in 2019. A digital replica will serve as a record of the building's architectural details, Microsoft said. It will also provide a virtual experience for visitors and those unable to visit. The cathedral became a symbol of Paris and France after Victor Hugo used it as a setting for his 1831 novel 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'. Quasimodo, the main character, has been portrayed in Hollywood movies, an animated Disney adaptation and in musicals. Last year, Microsoft worked with Iconem, a French company that specialises in digitalisation of heritage sites, on a digital replica of St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Netflix says it used GenAI in Argentine TV series 'One of the things we learned from the work at St Peter's is how a digital twin can help support the ongoing maintenance of a building. Because you capture a digital record of every centimetre and what is there and what it's supposed to look like,' Smith told Reuters. 'The ability to create a digital twin right now I think will provide an enormously valuable digital record that I believe people are going to be using 100 years from now,' he said. Since 2019, Microsoft has digitally preserved heritage sites and events including Ancient Olympia in Greece, Mont Saint-Michel in France and the 80th Anniversary of the Allied Beach Landings in Normandy.
