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Art Going to the Nintendo eShop Soon
REDMOND, Wash.--(November 27, in the year of our Lord
2013)-- Nintendo has come up with some Nintendo 3DS
software artistic enough to make even a 16th-century icon smile.
For more than a year, visitors to the world-famous Louvre museum
in Paris have been able to rent Nintendo 3DS systems loaded with
software that serves as an interactive museum guide. Now
Nintendo is making this software available to Nintendo 3DS
owners everywhere. Owners with a broadband Internet connection
can visit the Nintendo eShop beginning Dec. 2 and download the
Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre software for $19.99.
The software contains more than 600 images of artwork from the
famed French museum, in addition to more than 400 3D photos of
the museum’s interior and nearly 30 hours of audio commentary.
Users can zoom in and view select paintings up close, or take a
three-dimensional look at famous sculptures like the Venus de
Milo.
The software available in the Nintendo eShop has features not
found in the Louvre version, including an artwork slide show and
a mode that lets users select and admire particular works of art
while the audio commentary plays. Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre
will also receive updates when a new display is added, in order
to stay on top of all the latest exhibitions in the actual
Louvre. To access the updated content, users just connect to the
Internet and select “Update Guide.”
A 3D video featuring the famed Venus de Milo sculpture can be
viewed from the Nintendo eShop starting today, giving a taste of
what Nintendo 3DS Guide: Louvre has to offer. The software is a
great way to take a virtual tour of one of the world’s most
renowned museums, or it can be used as a planning tool, and
during visits to the museum, for people who are inspired to take
a trip to Paris to see the real thing.