DS spotted as tour guide in Shibuya’s Bunkamura

Score another one for gaming consoles and positive uses for them! NeoGAF poster Reno took a trip to Shibuya’s Bunkamura, a theater/concert hall/gallery to go take a look at the M.C. Escher exhibit the Bunkamura was showcasing that day.

To his surprise, the receptionists gave them DS lites at the door, and these served as their unofficial tour guides for the exhibit. He writes,

Basically out of the 60 or so exhibits on display, about 29 of them had NDS accessible content, where a voice over would accompany the picture and give you some information about the piece. Unfortunately it was all in Japanese so I only understood about 50% of it, but it seemed really cool. On top of that, you could click a button and a bigger version of the picture would appear on your DS, and you could actually use the touch screen to look at all the detail in each picture.

Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of the DS being used for more than games. It’s been a tour guide at the Nation Western Fine Arts Museum, as well as a tool for Japanese high school students who are learning English. It would be nice to see this happening somewhere other than Japan, though, but something tells us that a lot of hyperactive kids will be taking their handhelds home with them rather than giving them back at the end of the tour.

Score another one for gaming consoles and positive uses for them! NeoGAF poster Reno took a trip to Shibuya’s Bunkamura, a theater/concert hall/gallery to go take a look at the M.C. Escher exhibit the Bunkamura was showcasing that day.

To his surprise, the receptionists gave them DS lites at the door, and these served as their unofficial tour guides for the exhibit. He writes,

Basically out of the 60 or so exhibits on display, about 29 of them had NDS accessible content, where a voice over would accompany the picture and give you some information about the piece. Unfortunately it was all in Japanese so I only understood about 50% of it, but it seemed really cool. On top of that, you could click a button and a bigger version of the picture would appear on your DS, and you could actually use the touch screen to look at all the detail in each picture.

Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard of the DS being used for more than games. It’s been a tour guide at the Nation Western Fine Arts Museum, as well as a tool for Japanese high school students who are learning English. It would be nice to see this happening somewhere other than Japan, though, but something tells us that a lot of hyperactive kids will be taking their handhelds home with them rather than giving them back at the end of the tour.