Topic: Nintendo Labo

The hands on video if anyone want to watch

Wow !
That Radio Con was really moving.

@darkfenrir Looks like they've managed to repackage and sell Mario Kart 8 again!

It doesn't look very sturdy. Seems like the moving parts will wear out rather quickly. Especially the fishing rod and the house. I wonder how expensive replacements are going to be?

@Anti-Matter Are you surprised? The concept isn't new: https://cdn.idealo.com/folder/Product/2355/2/2355263/s1_produ... I'd be more surprised if they didn't work!

@Octane Lol, funny

Well by that time you should be able to use the given cardboard sheets and use it to make them again with your own cardboard/plastic/3d printer/whatever I guess?

NINTENDO LABO'S RC CAR TOY-CON USES THE JOY-CON IR CAMERA FOR PSEUDO-NIGHT AND HEAT VISION

https://gonintendo.com/stories/301151-nintendo-labo-s-rc-car-...

https://kotaku.com/we-tried-nintendo-labo-and-mostly-like-it-...

Also, Nintendo won't say who is making the Labo software. There's a rumour that Retro Studios could be working on it, I hope that's not what they've been doing all this time.

could also be NST ( Nintendo Software Technology ).

@SLIGEACH_EIRE We already knew about the camera use in the RC car from the day 1 hands on reports.

The "won't last long" argument holds less water than the cardboard you get with this game when people realise they can use the stencils the game comes with to draw up more cardboard parts, and the more hardware avid can try their hands at balsa wood, while the tech savvy make replacements with 3D printing

@chardir Can you show me specifically where we knew about pseudo-night and heat vision from day 1 please?

Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/hands_on_the_future_...

@SLIGEACH_EIRE https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/hands_on_the_future_...

"you can even view the world through the right-hand Joy-Con's IR camera, sending the bug on secret missions inside unexplored nooks and crannies"

Anyone remotely concerned the IR Camera can do bloody heat and night vision?

GameXplain posted an hour long hands-on discussion and the whole Labo thing just keeps getting more interesting. I was already going to buy the variety kit but the robot sounds awesome as well.

They answered a lot of questions like the durability, how seamlessly the Toy-Cons work, how long it took to build some of them, little bit about the Garage (how you do stuff like combine the motorbike and RC car functions and move the car with the motorbike Toy-Con), how the robot suit can be used by both children and adults (the rep also told them to punch as hard as they want to, so that should tell something about the durability). All kinds of things. I highly recommend watching the video.

@YummyHappyPills it's an IR camera. They kind of do that.

@Meowpheel Just makes you wonder that people didnt consider how deep the Switch goes with tech.

Also the news Nintendo brought along educational types shows they know exactly what this product line is to do

@YummyHappyPills The Wii Remote had an IR camera too.. It's nothing new, and nothing to be concerned about.

@Octane We don't know that. Now Nintendo has millions of Switch's being sold all around the world, they have got us building structures out of cardboard. Sure they may all seem like toys, but that robot is just their way of getting the fan base eased into the idea of mass producing an army for world domination

Yes, I remember that, but it didn't specifically say how the world would be viewed. Now we do know.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE other people shared info about the camera having night vision, and I even saw pictures of the night vision display the same day Labo was announced.

@Meowpheel I must have missed that because I was looking around for information as that was the standout quote from that NL article and the Switch doesn't have a traditional camera so I'd been wondering how it was viewed. It was obviously news to other sites as well. I still haven't seen images, I'll look again.

Edit: The only images I can find are from when people got hands on with it yesterday at the New York press event. Nintendo didn't show it before that in their trailers and I've found no prior mention or images. And we all know how Nintendo are about controlling what media gets out in the public until they say so.

Edit: I found mention on one site about night vision back on the 18th January(The Telegraph), but no way would Nintendo let unofficial images be taken. That information about night vision wasn't common knowledge and there's no mention of heat vision.