User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/05 -- ACWiki's Fan Section and AC3 first trailer/@comment-4539152-20120313000617

Just an idea, if the animus was portable then you could sort of have it as a dimension thing. Like Desmond stands somewhere in the Frontier then puts on the animus, then you could play as Connor and run around the world then take the animus of and stand in the place Connor was standing as Desmoned. It would give Desmond some use and you could find hidden places and things.