3DS Could Be Your Ticket to International Museums

awesome, as long as they use cool mini-games to replace the interactive exhibits

I guess that's a cool idea depending on if they can make it work. The 3D would probably make the exhibits look cooler at least.

That's pretty cool actually. Nice little idea =)

Awesome idea. Next time you dudes are on a date you can tell the girl you are going to visit a museum and bust out your 3DS! She will definitely be impressed by how cultured you are.

I kid, but actually I think that it has potential beyond just museums.

"That sounds like an ambitious goal, but definitely a worthwhile one to pursue. Schools will then be much more inclined to buy 3DS consoles for students than plane tickets, right?" I'm sure I'd be playing the 3DS rather than stay tuned and watch the museum xD

I really, really like this idea and it could actually be the beginning of how the 3DS takes off like the DS did. Very unique and interesting premise.

Hmm... interesting idea they have here, see how it all plans out now I guess...

The AR potential is definitely there when it comes to museums.

If you go to a museum, everything's in 3D

I think this is a very good idea. Imagine a service similar to Google Maps with Street View where you are actually travelling through the museum. I'm sure there are other interesting possibilities beside museums that Nintendo can explore, too. Collaborations with the tourism industry to take users to iconic landmarks, for example.

I could see there being an app you could download where you use the 3DS camera to identify art exhibits at a museum and it'll tell you about them, or something. Sorta like your own personal tour guide? I love going to museums like the MET here in NYC; I'd use my 3DS to improve the experience for sure.

More AR stuff on the 3DS is only a good thing.

This is cool, but no challenge to the iPad for educational things.

I would like to see the 3DS used to allow designers to view their projects in 3D (like maybe compiling designs from autocad or something) but that will never happen.

EDIT: @Rensch: I hadn't thought of that! AR would actually be really freaken amazing if they could manage it. Maybe this will give iPad a shake

That's cool and all but give us a decent line of 3ds games first!

@xkaj0x: We do have an awesome lineup now, with Mario, Mario Kart, Starfox, Pacman+GD, RE: Revelations, Kid Icarus, and so much more, how could you not say there is a decent line of 3DS games?

This is a cool idea though.

OH. MAH. GAWD.

This sounds really neat, though. I know some people will look to other mediums for more advanced educational means, but you can't get to the moon if you haven't built the airplane yet.

Interesting......

I want to see van Gogh's paintings in 3D to see the texture of them, but sculptures would be especially awesome.

@17 You can't get to the moon with an airplane. Duh.

You can't make space shuttles without making airplanes first, I believe he meant.

I think this would work with E3 also. I mean, viewing all press conferences and people demonstrating them would be awesome!

By the headline i thought they would give visitors of museums a 3DS for some additional stuff during their visit. And i think Nintendo knows that they have to bring their new handheld baby out in the public as much as possible / as much as makes sense. _{If they "advertise" StreetPass there too it would be wonderful.}

Rather than visiting virtual museums with it i think there are other educational areas the 3DS would be good in. Things like a heavily detailed 3D globe or to show you how your inner organs work. Just something that makes it stand out from the more static museums out there. Show me it works well (by giving demos of it) and i may even give you money for these things.

plane tickets are cheaper than a 3ds

well... it can be excellent if its put in good hands. it can flop if its put to newbies.

but for sure, i would be more than pleased to have access to worldwide museum exhibition on my 3ds.awesome cultural exchange idea.

I'd love to see the 3DS used as an educational tool and think that videogames as a whole could do more.

@#9 YES!

AR Museums! Set a card on the table and have an exhibit of a museum pop up! Ninteendo could make AR card decks for museums, each card, a different exhibit.

Mario Is Missing,...in 3D, & that the game would not be a fail. That would be good edutainment. But I like where this is going, too.

@29 Kudos on mentioning Mario is Missing Maybe I'm in love with what Mario is Missing did for me educationally at the time when I already happened to be studying that stuff in elementary/middle school, or maybe it's because Luigi was in the drivers' seat for the first time in his life? Or maybe it's because it's the closest to us playing a Mario game in the "real world" teased to us in knowledge of Mario being brom Brooklyn, NY, went to Brooklyn once in the Super Mario Bros Super Show, or frequented the "real world" in the SMB3 cartoon. While we're at it, let's get Mario's History in there too

This would be f'n awesome and it would be another feature to really set the 3DS apart. Do it Nintendo.