If you loved playing games on Switch, now you got something more to rejoice – A Switch VR Experience, courtesy of the Nintendo themselves. Based on the Labo Cardboard-buildings concept, Nintendo tries to reinvent the Switch as a VR device with the company’s Labo Project that was announced in 2018.
Experience a new dimension with the latest #NintendoLabo kit! With more games & creations than any previous kit, Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit is a unique first VR experience kids & families can build themselves! Arriving 4/12, only on #NintendoSwitch.https://t.co/PCxm9sZSed pic.twitter.com/B21Fa2FLCQ
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 7, 2019
If you look at the packaging that comes with the Nintendo Labo: VR Kit you can see the different cardboard builds that you can create with it. If you had been following Nintendo Labo from early 2018, you might have noticed that many of the builds that were shown in the launch video have been added to the mix.
However, Nintendo Labo: VR Kit comes in two variants, the full set that costs $79.99, which will include 5 build designs (which includes a bird, a camera, a wind pedal, an elephant, a rocket launcher) plus the VR hardware like the Googles and software. The next variant costs only half the price at $39.99 where you will only get one design and the VR hardware. The product will be available for purchase from April 12.
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If you were to compare the new set with the one that was released on April 20, 2018, you can see that the new ones come with ergonomic design changes where the goggles have been integrated into the cardboard itself and have gone for a more traditional peripheral orientation.
There is no limitation to how much builds that the user can own, so if you have purchased the lower end version that cost $39.99, you can buy more build designs later on. The expansion units come with a cost of $19.99 that either contains Toy-Con Camera and Elephant or you can buy one that comes with Toy-Con Wind Pedal and Bird.
You can also create your own custom VR experiences using the Toy-Con Garage software suite. Don’t expect top of the line VR experience with the Switch as this is just a fun way to get familiar with the technology with custom made Nintendo titles.
We have seen similar experiments from Google themselves with the Cardboard VR.