The first footage of the Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit has finally been released. Below is the full rundown, courtesy of the official Nintendo PR:
Ever wish you could paint like an elephant or feel like a superhero by stopping an alien invasion? Nintendo Labo: VR Kit launches exclusively for the Nintendo Switch system on April 12 with dozens of simple and fun virtual reality* experiences for kids and families to enjoy together. Get a sneak peek at what’s included in the Nintendo Labo: VR Kit in this new video released by Nintendo
- Ocean Camera (Toy-Con Camera): Dive into the deep blue virtual sea and complete objectives like taking photos of sea life. The ocean is full of surprises.
- House Camera (Toy-Con Camera): Interact with the strange creature living in the house – which some people may recognize from the Nintendo Labo: Variety Kit! – and complete missions by taking photos in its mysterious home.
- Marble Run (Toy-Con Elephant): Try to complete physics puzzles by using various objects to guide marbles through rings. You can even create puzzles of your own to challenge friends and family.
- Doodle (Toy-Con Elephant): Create colorful 3D artwork by moving the trunk of the Toy-Con Elephant through the air, using various in-game tools and styles to bring your creations to life. Once finished, show off your masterpieces on the TV by docking your Nintendo Switch. An additional multiplayer game lets you take turns drawing and guessing each other’s drawings.
- Bird (Toy-Con Bird): Soar through the sky on a bird’s back, collecting items and helping baby birds hatch along the way. Players flap the wings of the Toy-Con Bird to fly and simply tilt it to turn.
- Bird Dash (Toy-Con Bird, Toy-Con Wind Pedal): Compete in timed challenges by racing through checkpoints as you fly through the sky. The Toy-Con Wind Pedal is used in conjunction with the Toy-Con Bird to deliver an extra boost of speed, while also sending a surprisingly strong puff of air toward the player that enhances the sense of flying.
- Blaster (Toy-Con Blaster): Battle an alien invasion and giant bosses in an on-rails experience that requires sharp reflexes and a keen eye.
- Kablasta (Toy-Con Blaster): Challenge a friend to competitive hippo feeding. Yes, hippo feeding! Fling different types of fruit toward the hippos to lure them to your side of the pool and score the most points.
- Hop Dodge (Toy-Con Wind Pedal): As a frog, jump as high as you can on an ever-growing stack of balls while avoiding obstacles and heading soccer balls. The wind resistance from the Wind Pedal will make you feel as though you’re actually experiencing a breeze.
- VR Plaza (all Toy-Con creations): Enjoy 64 bite-sized games and experiences in VR Plaza, including platformers and puzzlers. Many of these experiences can be enjoyed using only the Toy-Con VR Goggles and Nintendo Switch system.
Two programing tools are included with the Nintendo Labo: VR Kit software. Toy-Con Garage is the tool that is returning from previous kits and optimized for this kit’s Toy-Con creations. Toy-Con Garage VR is a new tool that allows players to create their own VR games and experiences. In fact, Toy-Con Garage VR is the tool that the development team used to create everything in VR Plaza. Players can even import VR Plaza games into Toy-Con Garage VR mode to discover how they work, customize the experiences or use them as inspiration to create a completely new game.
The VR Kit will be available in two primary configurations. One includes all of the Toy-Con creations for $79.99 and the other is a starter set for the more affordable price of $39.99. Players who select the starter set will be able to purchase optional expansion sets for $19.99. For more information about this, view our previous post. Also, be sure to check out our recent hands-on.
Will you be purchasing the Labo VR Kit on 12th April? Tell us down in the comments.
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The Vr garage is very intriguing. This will probably be my first Labo and VR experience.
Really looking forward to this!
Toy Con Labo Garage V.R. has me sold. If I cross this with the Robot kit, then I'm going to have a lot of fun.
This is an awful lot of content compared to the previous Labo kits. Honestly, I feel like this is the best way for Nintendo to get involved in the VR market right now. True immersive VR requires some pretty heavy duty graphics, and the Switch shouldn't have to be a $500+ system to get it there.
@Elvie Can you do that? Could I cross it with the vehicle kit and make a VR racing game? Can you use 4 joy con?
really smart of them to make a cheaper starter pack. i might actually buy this instead of thinking about how clever labo is for once lol
The video moved this from a strong maybe to a day one for me. The garage vr mode is gonna be fun, for sure.
@SimplyCinnamon53 I believe you can use 4 joycon in garage mode. Joycon 1-4, with “5” being handheld mode. I saw a car in the video, so I’d imagine you could use the console’s gryo for steering and a joycon in the vehicle kit pedal.
I’m gonna need another notebook 😂
Looks like an absolute blast(er). This’ll be my first VR experience, and it’s shaping up to be a good one!
Ooooh nooooo
ITS BLAND ITS BLAND
SOUND THE NOT SURPRISED ALARMS
I have to actually eat my words on this. The video definitely intrigues me to the point that I could see myself buying into it. My biggest worry was that you wouldn’t be able to make your own content in VR but apparently you can.
Seeing this, along with the positive preview in the other article has really convinced me to get this, not day one, but later on, it looks like great fun, i really hope it's supported after launch, would be great if it was integrated into other first party games down the line.
Just read the rather long hands on, then watched the video.
I'm certainly not as high on this as the hands on was, though some of it looks good enough that I'll probably have to purchase the starter kit and the camera kit.
Some quick thoughts -
The elephant has nothing whatsoever to do with elephants. Why is it an elephant? The "Dreams" like 3D designer was nice, and the puzzle games looked better, but why an elephant?
Will never play that frog game, it just looks stupid, as does the foot-fan.
Hippo Herder needs to be skinned w/ Devin Nunes cows.
Bird graphics are a bit weak. After reading the hands on I was hoping for something more koi pond Wii U tech demo. They should have just asked Sega for permission to make "Nights into Dreams" instead. You all know you want it.
Fish camera. Why not Pokemon Snap! for the 20th anniversary? Oh well, I'm a sucker for fish, need the camera.
64 minigames. That's a lot, nice bonus. Will need to find out if all 64 come w/ the $40 pack or only the $80 pack.
Toy-Con VR > Toy-Con garage. Got a little bit of Little Big Planet going on in there, not bad, Not bad at all.
I do have a PSVR so I have a little experience w/ VR, not expecting anything like that, not getting anything like that, but whats' here for the money isn't bad at all if you already have a Switch. Certainly not worth buying a Switch only for this, but I don't think thats really a fair expectation for anyone to have.
Wow, it's even more ambitious than what I thought... I'm really getting Mario Artist vibes... I mean, it even has a VR Game Maker! It makes me wonder what Nintendo could be planning beyond Labo VR.
Even with a 720p resolution the graphics look very polished. But I hope it benefits more from new Switch models.
@Desrever This kit seems to address pretty much every major issue with other Labo kits. Optional price points, more content and game variety, and it seems like it's expanding on the Toy-Con Garage, which can give it a ton of life after the builds are made and the available games have been played. The only thing missing would be the option to share levels online, but I can see some obvious problems with that given the freedom in the maker. As of now, it's also the cheapest iteration of VR available... so, if nothing else, you can't say it's not unique.
@MH4 I have to wonder how anyone who played the Virtual Boy feels about Nintendo's return to VR.
Yes this had convince me to get this for my nephew, he'll enjoy making imaginary world out of this.
I don’t get the worry about resolution and graphics when it’s Nintendo we’re talking about. They’ve always pushed weaker hardware to its absolute limits to create innovative and beautiful games.
Doom Eternal with the Toy Con Blaster. A match made in heaven.
@rjejr
I think that it's an elephant just because of how the control scheme works. You have to hold the unit to your face and use a joycon in front of it. When they tethered it on there I guess they just thought it looked like an elephant, I can't see any other reason.
The Labo VR kits look great and the kids are going to have a blast with these.
Very impressed by the ambition level on display here! Full 3D painting, cheap adaptive controllers, node programming for kids, with full 3D scene editing. The works!
Also impressed by the way in which Nintendo is avoiding to splooge their signature characters all over everything. They did learn something from Nintendoland.
@rjejr
The software included in the base pack is the same, so the plaza games are there. This time around, if you buy the expansion sets on their own, you literally are paying for the cardboard.
Also, my guess on the elephant thing; the painting software likely relies on the IR camera to track the position of the joints in the "trunk" in relation to eachother, for accurate 3D positioning, so rather than explain this concept to customers, they went with the general animal theme of the pack, and called it an elephant. Explains/defends the limited range of motion as well.
I hope they add the online share place to try games people have done. I'm not that smart or talented to make things, but love to see what others do.
I wonder how they can add features to other games:
Pokemon Shield & Sword (pokesnap mode, film Pokemon battles?)
Mario Kart and Tennis (film and Picture mode)
Animal crossing pictures of wildlife and villagers
Impressive amount of content. Had preordered starter pack. Will cancel now and get the full pack. Sorry wallet!
Loving what I'm seeing so far, though the 3D art one is too similar to the one in Harmonix's for the PSVR.
@Fresnokila It's "too similar"? And it's not both of them that are too similar to Tiltbrush, Quill, AnimVR, or Medium?
There are already quite a few 3D painting packages for VR out there, some better than others, and it seems to me LABO has a fair few of its own ideas going. But what do I really know, I haven't tried it yet.
@Pod Ha it's not like I've played them all, but it was the first thing that came to mind since I played it recently...it's still fresh in my head.
Did no one noted the part of the video, at 6:40, where there's a realistic view of a garden with trees and deers in the front. And a hand that looks like it's giving them food. What was that? It looked totally out of place and lasted like 2 seconds...
@Ricube
Nicely spotted! That one IS weird. The deer look like a video recording, but the hand feeding one of them is a simplified model of what appears to be Princess Daisy's skin and dress colors, as well as her signature cuff frills.
How would that even work out?? Is this an animal feeding chill-out thing, where you can use Miis or Nintendo characters and go to various places around the world?
That... Actually looks super cool
This looks pretty cool. However, I don't think it'd work out so well for me because I need glasses. Glad I didn't try Virtual Boy back in the 90's since my eyes are bad enough as it is.
The hippo game just reminded me of playing "Hungry Hungry Hippos".
Ok I’m sold, and I was originally planning to pass.
I just don’t want to have to make all those cardboard LABO creations. And where the heck am I going to store them
Seeing the ton con garage robot: And Jesus wept, for there were no more world's to conquer.
Looks awesome. I wish you could share game creations, but Nintendo being who they are decided it’s dangerous for the children - surely there’s a simple solution for that...
The garage is pretty cool. Might get the Starter Set when it's cheap.
I'm sorry - but this looks really really clever!
Looks even better than I thought it would, definitely getting at least some of them. Also, who would've expected that elephant trunk to be one of the most fun looking Toy-cons. ^^'
This is VR for the younger demographic of the gamer market. But I suppose the Labo brand is predominantly targeted at the 7 to 16yrs. As a mature gamer (45+) I’ll have to wait for a new more powered generation of Switch (Switch 2) where maybe, just maybe, they will produce a mainstream head set for the Switch and some games that would warrant using it.
I'm sold. At only £30 for the starter it's an easy jump-in point.
It looks wat better than I expected! Not into Labo at all, but this one... Hummm...
Very impressed by this. Not sure I'll be purchasing but it's such a clever idea and looks to have the content to back it up.
OK, now I'm convinced. These may not be full games but they def look like very solid demos of the kinds of novel things you can do in VR, and stuff that often can really be experienced similarly in any other medium.
looks impressive with a lot of work gone into it, dont think it will sell much more than the other though
@jockmahon I think this is going to probably blow away the sales of the others to be honest. It might even end up being one of the best selling VR headsets out there, especially given that being able to build your own simple VR games is literally built into the software you get with the heads--that's likely a system-selling feature imo.
By the way, anyone who now wants to claim that this isn't good value for money after seeing the full reveal, especially with all the games/demos you get (64+) and the included VR Garage mode, is a moron.
Starter kit for me. This is the best labo so far. If this does good I’m sure there will be vr 2 kit
This is amazing! I had a feeling this would be great! The only thing we need now is a head strap for the standard headset, and I'm happy!
@nessisonett The main issue regarding the graphics is more about low frame rates than high resolution or pretty renderings. True VR requires at least 90fps, which is a bit excessive for TV play, but anything lower is more likely to cause motion sickness.
I don't see it being too big of an issue here, though. This isn't geared towards hour long gameplay with a device strapped to your head, but more about quick minigames that you can pull your face out of when you need your eyes to readjust.
nice! Can't wait to try
The elephant really looks the most appealing to me.
@CaPPa "elephant"
All I'm saying is - I can imagine a lot of little kids wanting to make the elephant to BE AN ELEPHANT. And they are going to be disappointed if there is no elephant. All they need is a quick little first person elephant simulator. Pick up a log w/ your trunk, hold onto another elephants trunk in a parade, shoot some water out of your trunk to make a rainbow shining through the spray, pick up a crow feather and fly. I'm all about the piggyback marketing. They might as well just have made it a flamingo, at least it would be pink then. Or an orange octopus. Just saying.
@Pod "if you buy the expansion sets on their own, you literally are paying for the cardboard"
Is that really the case? If you buy the starter pack for $40 do you think that includes the other 4 game modes - elephant, camera, bird, foot-fan? If it did, why even buy the cardboard, just build something similar on your own. I figured they only made 2 sets so they only had to package the software twice - full set and gun set - then the other sets would come w/ DLC codes for that content.
Hope you wont' get offended if I go off and do some Google reconnaissance on my own rather than simply asking other people to do it for me, b/c now I'm actually curious.
@Pod So after wasting too much time on this for what it is I've decided you are probably right, there is only 1 software, they really are charging $20 for the cardboard kits. And since I want the camera I may end up buying the elephant anyway, so it goes. Or I may try to build my own camera since I'm really not too interested in the elephant.
Got it in my Amazon cart since I have Prime, might as well for $40. I'll let ya know how it goes.
I mean, I was expecting less, so good job Nintendo.
@rjejr
Alriiiight!
Hope you have fun, I'll be waiting to hear!
@Ricube I noticed that as well. Maybe they bring back the 360° videos from the early WiiU days.
I even bought one of those (the one where you drive through Kyoto with a geisha). It was cool but the video was pretty low res.
I actually really like how this looks. especially the garage. as an artist who has yet to scratch the surface with VR because the technology is somewhat intimidating ,, this appeals to me tbh.
also the elephant painting and bird ones look amazing
> Will you be purchasing the Labo VR Kit on 12th April?
No, I bought it today after I saw that wonderful trailer. So excited to play this now!
I am completely SOLD on this kit
I'm in, will build this with my nephew and I can't wait for the look on his face when he tries it for the first time
I won't buy it since its still a bunch of demo's (and I don't have room for all that cardboard) but it does look fun.
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