Louvre will use Nintendo 3DS as an audio guide

Audio guides are probably familiar to everyone - devices designed to listen to an audio tour of the museum. The last time this technology was globally updated about fifteen years ago: cassette players were everywhere replaced with mp3-players with a keyboard, allowing you to choose the number of the exhibit and the language of the tour. A few years ago, the Louvre acquired new generation video guides ( photos ), but they actually lie idle - they are only rented by 4% of the 8.5 million annual visitors to the museum, and the rest prefer to use their smartphones, where you can watch videos and look at Wikipedia of necessity.

In 2012, Nintendo will provide the Louvre with 5000 Nintendo 3DS consoles and will also develop content for them: an audio tour in seven languages, thematic routes and even navigation through the museum (I will be glad if someone explains how it will work, Google did not help me) . Whether the content will support 3D without glasses is unknown. On the one hand, it would be cool, but on the other - why, if the actual exhibit can be seen right in the exhibition hall :)
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According to the administration of the museum, the new consoles will be more convenient than existing devices, thanks to the touch interface and thoughtful design, and will also be more attractive to children, many of whom do not part with 3DS at all.

Sources: AFP, Wikipedia, flickr.