Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00130
The folks at Nintendo provided us with the new Nintendo Labo VR Kit for free to play with and review. Opinions expressed are our own.
I enjoy Virtual Reality games. I’ve played on big systems and small. However, I have never built my own VR system. That is what the Nintendo Labo VR Kit lets you do, create your VR googles but also several attachments for them so that you can do a number of fun games. The first thing that I built with the kit was the Elephant. This is an interesting Toy-Con, they are called Toy-Cons because the controllers on the sides of the Nintendo Switch are called Joy-Cons. You put the Joy-Cons inside the Toy-Cons to play the different games. With the Toy-Con Elephant you can do some painting, use the trunk to cut things with scissors and also grasp and move things to make virtual reality marble runs. Andrew enjoyed using that one a lot.
The second thing that I made was the Camera Toy-Con. This thing is amazing. You use it to go deep sea diving and take photos of fish underwater. You can zoom in and out and the camera even makes a clicking noise when it zooms. I watched more about how this works on the game to learn that the Joy-Cons communicate with the main screen of the Nintendo switch and they know the relative position of each other so if you wanted to hold the camera sideways it would not zoom, only when you rotate the lens does it zoom. It is a very cool bit of technology.
The Blaster Toy-Con is my favorite because it is one of the most fun ones. Using rubber bands and more you can actually pull the blaster back to set it and then push the trigger which makes the blaster shoot.The games for that are interesting. In one you are blasting aliens and in another you are shooting pieces of fruit into the mouths of hippos. The games are set up so that you can take turns with another player in order to compete for the most hippos. This is Andrew’s favorite game and one that we have had the most fun playing. I go into more detail in the video below.
I also featured this new kit heavily in my most recent article on The Toy Insider Parent Panel Blog which was about STEM and video games. This kit certainly has awesome STEM benefits and it isn’t just the building of the Toy-Cons but also the ability to code your own games with the Toy-Cons. You can purchase the Nintendo Labo Kit on Amazon.com through our Affiliate Link below. It costs you nothing extra but helps out our blog. Then after that you can read all about the Nintendo Labo VR Kit from the latest Nintendo Press Release.