France: Microsoft partners with French firm to create Notre Dame Cathedral digital twin

American firm Microsoft has partnered with France’s custom minister and a native company to create a digital twin of the newly restored Notre Dame Cathedral.

The tech massive will provide key AI assistance to French start up Iconem, to abet them sew together tons of of thousands of high resolution photos and possess a reproduction of the cathedral that is anticipated to be made on hand to scientists and the public.

Microsoft and Iconem already worked together on a identical challenge in Rome with a digital twin for Saint Peter’s Cathedral. 

“The technology allows us to see details that are hard to see when you visit the monument […] At Saint Peter’s, some mosaics are 120 metres above the ground”, stated Iconem co-founder and CEO Yves Ubelmann.

“Thanks to the technology that we sigh, together with describe acquisition technology, we can glimpse each factor, each phase of these mosaics.” 

This announcement comes as restoration work on the cathedral is drawing near near completion, six years after the fireplace that devastated phase of the monument. 

The digital reproduction ought to peaceable be made on hand to scientists and the public. 

“It will create a tool for preservationists in the future, hundreds of years from now, because they’ll be able to preserve the Cathedral with this detailed knowledge of what it looks like today”, stated Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith.

The digital structure is additionally expected to be displayed in the end Notre Dame Museum, announced in 2023 by French President Emmanuel Macron.

The convention signed by all parties at the French custom ministry on Monday states that Microsoft and Iconem will donate the digital masterpiece to the advise of France. 

“This is the right time, this is the right project […] to maintain this magical, wonderful asset for French society”, Brad Smith stated.

Extra sources • AP