Shigureden
Shigureden, the new museum in Arashiyama, Kyoto, Japan highlighting the game and the estetics of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu is actually a Nintendo project so as to say. Its funding, technology and the ideas have come from Nintendo.
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The story is that Nintendo's advisor Hiroshi Yamauchi personally funded the construction of the museum where visitors use locator devices called ShigureNavi which is nothing but a Nintendo DS-based location aware devices. Apart from this, the museum's interactive digital installations are supervised by Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator if Mario Bros.
ShigureNavi is like a Nintendo DS without buttons with only volume control. In place of the buttons are two sensor devices that receive signals from transmitters fixed in ceilings enabling visitors to access location-relevant contents.
Also in the museum, a large Nintendo DS-like installation allows visitors to play card games with ancient historical Japanese characters.
This museum has become a big hit that includes elderly people too.
Read more about the ShigureNavi and the interactive DS-like installation here in We Make Money, Not Art. Thanks!
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