Tamil Nadu police idol wing set up virtual museum to sell idols as NFTs

Solving a nagging problem in Tamilnadu – Idol Theft

Idol Wing of Tamil Nadu collaborating with IoE-CoE on Virtual Reality and Haptics, IIT Madras, Mr Shankara Narayanan, PhD Scholar at the Department of Computer Science, IIT, Madras, and Mr Premnath of Invent Softlabs, Chennai. IIT Madras, using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality unique cameras and a technique called Photogrammetry, 3D-Scanned the idols from different angles and stitched them together using freely available tools.

https://www.dtnext.in/News/TamilNadu/2022/02/27224636/1355735/Tamil-Nadu-police-idol-wing-set-up-virtual-museum-.vpf

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/idol-wing-creates-virtual-museum-to-preserve-tamil-nadus-cultural-treasures/article65090136.ece

https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/pictures-of-idols-seized-by-tn-police-s-special-wing-are-now-just-a-click-away-1085703.html

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