{"id":535,"date":"2011-12-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/paris-louvre-to-replace-audio-guides-with-nintendo-3ds\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T13:32:13","slug":"paris-louvre-to-replace-audio-guides-with-nintendo-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/paris-louvre-to-replace-audio-guides-with-nintendo-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris\u2019 Louvre to Replace Audio Guides with Nintendo 3DS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Louvre Museum in Paris will soon be replacing its audio guides with the popular Nintendo 3DS hand-held game system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo will provide the museum with up to 5,000 devices, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gw2AbeSY2-6tyQSj3L3qpFCsaFUw?docId=CNG.409326a7a960e6419497c9b6fd1f6faf.21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">report from the AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The modified devices will allow visitors to track their progress throughout the museum, choose from a few different themed itineraries, and listen to tours in several different languages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The partnership with Nintendo is just one campaign to modernize the institution. The 200-year-old museum recently updated its website (one of the most visited in the world), and will launch revamped applications for iPads and smartphones early in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Louvre Museum in Paris will soon be replacing its audio guides with the popular Nintendo 3DS hand-held game system. &nbsp; Nintendo will provide the museum with up to 5,000 devices, according to a report from the AFP. &nbsp; The modified devices will allow visitors to track their progress throughout the museum, choose from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897756,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/98897756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}