In the image that illustrates the article you can see the Winged Victory of Samothrace, one of the most spectacular works that can be seen in the Louvre Museum and that is undergoing restoration until the summer of 2014. In any case and although visitors to the museum will not be able to see this work of art between September 2013 and The summer of 2014 will be able to visualize this work of art and many others with the new release made by Nintendo.
As we mentioned in Peques and Más, Nintendo and the Louvre Museum in Paris launched a collaboration that made the Nintendo 3DS console the official multimedia audio guide of the most visited museum in the world. Now the president of the company, Satoru Iwata, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2012, Shigeru Miyamoto, and those who can be seen making the announcement at the Louvre Museum, explain the launch on Nintendo eShop of the Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre, an improved version of the interactive experience that visitors have been able to enjoy so far only inside the museum.
The goal is that anyone can discover the extraordinary collection of the Louvre Museum from the palm of your hand using the Nintendo console.
Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre it presents innovative ways to enjoy the many attractions that the Louvre Museum exhibits thanks to the use of the 3D function without glasses of the Nintendo 3DS and the Nintendo 3DS XL. The program includes more than 600 photographs of the works of art, more than 30 hours of audio commentary and more than 400 photographs of the museum's rooms, including 3D panoramic photographs of the galleries.
Among the 600 images of works of art, there are 150 high-resolution 2D photographs that allow you to observe the smallest details of the works of art, as well as high-resolution 3D images and 3D models of certain sculptures, which allow you to examine them from any angle, for example, from a zenith or posterior perspective.
In addition to audio-commentary, designed by museum curators and art historians, the program includes a series of video comments on specific works and artists, various fields within the world of art, the history of the Louvre, etc.
In addition, for all those who want to approach the Louvre Museum, with this program you can prepare the visit before leaving on a trip. And once you are physically inside the museum, just activate the wireless connection of your Nintendo 3DS to access the interior mode, which uses the location detection function to recognize which museum room you are in. This mode also offers a complete interactive map, which gives details of the exhibits available in the museum room where you are.
The Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre is available for download on Nintendo eShop by 19.99 euros. In addition, users who visit the Louvre Museum can get a cartridge version of the software, acquiring it in the museum's souvenir shops, where the physical version of the software will be available exclusively.
We congratulate Nintendo for the initiative and hope that soon these types of programs, or similar, can be part of the educational offer for children and students Driven by schools. The possibilities that open this type of applications are enormous so you have to see the evolution.
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