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Save your valuable pocket space with 3DS AR card app for Android

by Griffin McElroy on Mar 23rd 2011 1:00AM

Regardless of what gender you may subscribe to, it seems that leg-based garments are getting tighter and tighter by the day. That doesn't leave much pocket space for gaming accoutrements like the Nintendo 3DS AR cards, leaving travelling gamers with one sad storage solution: fanny packs. This, friends, is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a sudden resurgence in fanny pack popularity.

Fortunately, Android phone owners can cut out this utterly humiliating middle man by grabbing Andrew Wilson's clever little app, which displays the cards included with the system. You could even use the app next to an actual card, creating two of the same 3D images at once. Imagine, if you will: Two Kirbys, eating each other at the same exact time. We're not sure how that's gonna turn out, but we wouldn't be surprised if it created a tiny, adorable black hole.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Source: Android Market

Tags: 3ds, android, app, augmented-reality, cards, ds, nintendo

Reader Comments (28)

Cool story bro

Cool!

Whoa. That adorably blew my mind. :D

With their powers combined!............wait wrong cartoon.

@Shadsy
Yeah... uh, seems incredibly redundant. I'm finding myself just taking my phone with me these days and only playing my dedicated handhelds at home... which seems kind of stupid. The difference is that I NEED my phone and it can also do things to amuse me if need be.

Also, my pants ain't getting tighter. Skinnies look terrible on guys.

Can somebody explain to me what an AR card is... because the first thing that pops into my mind is Action Replay, and I highly doubt THAT's what Nintendo is bundling.

@Peffse Augmented reality, the Nintendo 3DS recognize the shape printed on the card through the cameras, and creates a virtual object that can be seen on the 3DS screen, looking as if it would exist in the real world.
In other words, you can put your Mii on you kitchen table.

@Peffse
AR stands for "Augmented Reality"

Basically, the AR cards are used for motion capture so the 3D models rendered can align with the any plane (e.g. a desk) from the video feed.

@yoshi95

i put my mii on the kitchen table without it.

Why do you need an app for it? Just throw some jpegs onto your picture viewer.

@SpanWolf
While, yes, you could just do that, as well, the idea behind this is that it's an "image gallery" dedicated to just the 3DS AR cards. So, you launch the app and then there's your cards. No worries about loading up irrelevant (or inappropriate? I dunno what some of you people do with your phone cameras...) pictures.

And, hey, it's free. Why complain?

@BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam
I guess we don't need to complain, but creating an entire derivative work using Nintendo's copyrighted art might get the guy a C&D letter.

@Solar Jetman

You've never been on the Android Market before have you? There's a lot more illegal apps that Nintendo would worry about before this...

I was about ask why the hole wouldn't be pink, but... Yeah...

.....answer it dammit

Man I'm so immature. Fanny means something entirely different over here in Scotland. When I read fanny pack, I thought it said fanny pad as in a sanitary towel. And I was like WTF. It was like playing Grandia on the PS1 and watching the scene where they fall off the great wall all over again lol.

@Darth Phillius

Oh man, I think we had identical childhoods. That's almost the only part of Grandia I remember, just because someone fell and hurt their "fanny". Also it was a braw game, och aye etc.

@Bielzer
You sir, are an idiot.

Wonder Twin Powers....ACTIVATE!! Form of a giant Mii! Shape of...another Mii!

@Bluebreaker
I was cooking up a giant Mii joke, but out outdid it. Thanks, now I can enjoy my hangover at work with no worries.

you're sadly mistaken. fanny packs get us all the chicks, dood

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/1976/888237-prinny_ahem_large.jpg

@Demaar Never used your phone to store barcodes/coupons? This is pretty much the same principle.

This post made me laugh.

@Ellimem
No no, I agree, this is a clever idea. I'm just sort of lamenting the whole deal with Nintendo expecting you to carry around more superfluous bullshit or whatever. Sort of makes it more of an "at home" experience in my mind.

WHY DID YOU GUYS RATE ME DOWN :/

Did anyone else misread the sentence "Imagine if you will: Two kirbys, eating each other out"

.....answer it dammit.

Clever? All you need to do is download the images from Nintendo's site ;/

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