Transcripts For BBCNEWS Click - Short Edition 20240710

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There too, with fans hoping their team can bring home their second euros trophy. Fully vaccinated Nhs Staff could be let off having to self isolate after contact with someone with covid to try to tackle staff shortages. Haiti descends into chaos after its president was assassinated, it urges the United Nations and the United States to send in troops. Now on Bbc News click a guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry news. Hey, welcome to click. Hope youve had a good week. Lara, how are you doing . Im good just trying to plan for another summer of the unknown chuckles. Yep another one of those is on its way, isnt it . Summer is going to be different for everyone once again this year, and that includes the many muslims who would normally be about to undertake hajj. Hajj is the pilgrimage thats made by around 2. 5 million muslims every year, from all across the globe, to mecca, saudi arabia, and this year, its happening in july. Its one of the most important acts of faith that a muslim can undertake, and its said to amaze those who do. But of course, in the last couple of years, the coronavirus has led the saudi authorities to severely limit the number of people who are allowed to visit. However, another way to Experience Hajj Retelling its story using the objects and works of art associated with this sacred journey is about to become available to everyone. And Omar Mehtab has been taking a look. The first part of my Learning Journey was to visit the V A Museum In London. And just being here in one of the special exhibitions, as well as the islamic art galleries, something started to stir inside of me almost a connection to the ancient past. The pilgrimage is to mecca, the birthplace of islam. But many also visit medina, the second holiest city for muslims. Now, ive not personally been on hajj its supposed to happen at least once in every muslims lifetime, but only after youre settled and havent got any debts or obligations. And thats not me at the moment, so im not gonna be there anytime soon. However, being here and seeing these artworks, especially from mecca and medina, really makes me makes me want to learn more about my religion and the culture that surrounds it. This is special. So the next leg in myjourney to learn more has taken me to a large space in South London where a dozen pieces of art relating to hajj are being digitised. They are from the Khalili Collections, which includes whats considered to be the largest and most significant group of objects relating to the cultural history of hajj. And its founder is Sir David khalili. I didnt start collecting islamic art because it was islamic, because it was the most diverse group of art ive ever seen. Every piece had a message. But the story of hajj has never been told through the object that was produced culturally to honour the place. As you, im not allowed to go to mecca medina, but through the experience of Collecting Objects for the last 50 years of my life, ifeel like im there anyhow. I virtually feel the soul of the artists who have produced these objects through their beliefs. Now, an obvious way to share art is through digitisation. But for it to really work and not just be two dimensional, the Art Needs to live and breathe every brushstroke of a painting or every thread of a textile. You really need to bring out whats not visible to the naked eye. Take this silk, for example, thats used to cover shrines in the holy mosque in mecca, finally embroidered in both Silver And Gold covered wire. The amount of time, Effort And Intricacy thats gone into many of these works is a matter of spiritual importance. Its not just art for arts sake, but this is produced for a very particular, sacred, ritualistic and spiritual purpose. Thats where the google art camera, which is capturing the minutiae of detail, comes in. Our is a custom built camera, built to capture images our camera is a custom built camera, built to capture images of paintings and artworks in super high resolution. It generates what is called a gigapixel which is an image of overi billion pixels. The camera is equipped with a laser and a sonar and using high frequency sounds, pretty much like a bat, its able to measure the distance between the camera and the artwork to make sure that the focus is right. And after about 45 minutes, every bit is digitised and a programme stitches it together to generate the full image. An image captured with our camera can unlock information around that artwork but also unlock the emotional stories around certain artworks and generate in a Way Kind of an augmented experience of the viewing of an artwork. And weeks later, im at the final part of my personaljourney all the captures telling the Story Hajj from the Khalili Collection are there on one platform, using sphere technology. So it puts everything into this big sphere here, creating a sd like environment, combining scale with detail. But its also quite easy to just drag around and zoom into something that interests you. This shirt actually is something that we looked at in real in real life. Wow a lot of this i didnt actually notice when i saw it up close. The fading and the writing and then the detail, the patterns. Its a its a privilege. So this was a painting we saw, a more modern one. Even with this, Zoom Zooming right in. Just the finer details of the painting, the shadows and the hats. And it works quite similar to Google Earth in that way, in that you can zoom in and see incredible detail of a specific location but, in this case, of art. Some of these pieces are being shown for the first time. But even in a museum, you can only view it from a distance or when the artwork is inside glass boxes. See, barely anyone has the privilege to see these pieces in real life, let alone this up close. Remember the Silk Cloth used in the holy mosque . Here it is, with hints of gold underneath the silver, not really visible to the naked eye. Its its as if the tech is helping me to reach something beyond the art. I can see what Sir David meant that its another side to it. Going on hajj is one thing, but completing that spiritual, that cultural side of it, using this art thats entrenched in the hajj� s history, is. Is something special. Choosing a pair of glasses usually involves rows and rows of them in all shapes, sizes and colours. Pick them up, try them on and either you like them or you dont. But the way we choose our glasses in future could be set to change. Its time for personalised sd printed frames. Overproduction is fashion� s biggest environmental problem and for eyewear, this means 20 30 stock risk. And 3d Printing can solve this problem by shifting the focus from more inventory focused production to a more on demand oriented production and along the way also solve the problem of fitting this is a major problem. Here in front of me is a range of 3d printed glasses. They come in a variety of colours, too. Now, the idea is that you choose the style that you think will suit you best. No. And from there, a pair can be 3d printed that should fit you perfectly. So using a tablet and three cameras, yourface is 3d scanned in store, to create an avatar to try on the eyewear. The systems algorithms measuring you up for glasses that should not only fit you perfectly in appearance, but also in doing theirjob well. This process should eventually be entirely possible on a mobile phone. Typically the measurements we would take would be the pupil distance, the distance between the two pupils, the heights of the pupils, so where the pupils sit within the lens. Ok, so i need to label my right pupil. Here we go. Left pupil, right temple. The vertex distance, so the distance from the surface of the eye to the back of the lens. Wed also look at the wrap of the frame as well so we can see how much of a wrap the frame had. So your trip here might only need to be to get your eyes tested, unless you want to feel the product first, or long for an optician� s opinion. I can choose the colour of the arms lets go for silver, they look nice. Now i can order them. And the future could also see more choice. 3d Printing now is a technology where you can print in more than 15 materials. So in the future we will print goods, frames, in transparency material, in bio material, in metal material. So we are at the beginning of this industrial revolution. The aim here is whats being called Mass Customisation where by Making Lots of personalised products, the cost can be kept down. And although these glasses do start at £160, which is similar to many others on the shelves, that rises with some of the options. But beyond all of this, and the sustainability element, for this to really work, the finished product needs to prove to be the perfect fit. 0k, well your glasses have arrived now, havent they . Do you want to pop them on for us . They are super light and really comfortable, but the thing that i noticed more than anything was in the shop when i was trying them on, everything looked a bit wonky. I always have this with sunglasses, where one eyebrow shows and the other doesnt, so clearly i have a wonky face. And these glasses seem to fix the issue the glasses are maybe as my face. As wonky my face. I never thought of you as having a wonky face before but ill have to take a closer look in future. Anyway, that is it from us for now. As ever you can keep up with the team on social media, find us on youtube, instagram, Facebook And Twitter at bbcclick. Thanks for watching and we will see you soon. Bye bye. Good afternoon. There are just over 30 hours to go before england take on italy in the euro 2020 final at wembley. Victory Tomorrow Night against italy would be the first major Tournament Win for the team since the 1966 world cup. The italian side is expected to arrive In London later today they will use tottenhams Training Ground for their final preparations while gareth southgate� s side have been training at st georges park, before heading to their Team Hotel in hertfordshire. Our Sports Correspondent John Watson reports

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