Golden Temple featured in ‘Incredible India’ virtual-reality video
Golden Temple features in ‘Incredible India’ virtual-reality video Google Arts and Culture’s has brought India’s spectacular heritage, festivity, spirituality and adventure to users in form of a new 360-degree video. It also includes the beautiful view of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji in Amritsar’s Golden Temple. The incredible video has been created in partnership with the ministry of tourism for its international tourism campaign ‘Incredible India’. The video takes viewers on a journey to some of the most iconic destinations in India such as Hampi’s Vitthala Temples and Qutub Minar in Delhi. Union tourism minister KJ Alphons said, “India is an iconic destination that offers unique experiences of climate, geography, culture, art, literature, and food. We want to give people in India and across the world an opportunity to immerse in our country’s rich heritage. Through our partnership with Google, we want to engage new and global audiences and offer them immersive content in a never-before-seen manner.” The Google teams visited Hampi, Delhi, Goa and Amritsar over 12 days to capture “stunning slices of life that typify each place” using the best of 360-degree video capture technology, including Google’s Yi Halo camera.
