The Louvre Will Use Nintendo 3DS Hanhelds as Tour Guides

The leadership of the well known Louvre Museum in Paris, France have announced that they are planning to make the switch from traditional audio guides to the new Nintendo 3DS handhelds, which will offer a much better multimedia experience to visitors.

Nintendo is set to deliver 5,000 devices to the Louvre during March and the unique three dimensional capabilities of the platform will be used by the proprietary software of the museum to allow anyone to locate his exact position inside the building and then get accurate audio commentary based on it.

Agnes Alfandari, who is the head of multimedia experiences working at the Louvre, stated when the announced was made that, “We are the first museum in the world to do this.”

It’s not clear whether the 3DS will immediately be introduced for all visitors or whether the Louvre will continue to offer more old fashioned tourists the traditional audio guide experience.

The Louvre is one of the biggest museums in the world and prides itself on being the most visited one, meaning that locating exactly where in the exhibitions they are can often be a problem for tourists.

The problem with introducing the Nintendo 3DS as a way to show a 3D location guide is that some people are unable to perceive the effect and that the console has some limitations linked to viewing angle that some might not know about.

The Louvre was first opened on the 10th of August 1793 and it initially contained just 537 paintings, most of them taken from royal property and confiscated from the church by French revolutionary authorities.

The Nintendo 3DS has only been around since the spring of 2011 but it has already managed to perform better than the initial device in the series on the United States market and has also seen impressive sales in Japan.