Update: Journalists got to play with Labo kits at NYC recently, go to 1:38 of the following video to see gameplay of the Toy-Con 02 Robot Kit:
What's newly confirmed:
- Jetpack
- Visor raised up gives you third person view
- Visor facing down gives you first person view
- Can shoot lasers while in vehicle mode
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Since journalists couldn't test the Robot Kit like they did the Variety Kit, I decided to make this thread to describe how it works based on footage.
The product: https://labo.nintendo.com/kits/robot-kit/
As you can see in the above image, there is a backpack with extendable straps where the Right Joy-Con is inserted into the face of it.
There is a visor where the Left Joy-Con is inserted into a slot. (Yes, you only need to use two Joy-Cons with the Robot Kit and it's not used on your hands.)
There are four handles that act as pulleys, they are tied with string, two handles are held by the hands while the other two have straps to tie around the feet to hold it.
In the above image, you can see for the piano from the variety kit that the IR Camera is reading reflective strips of tape to detect the movement of the keys when pressed down.
This is similar to the backpack for the robot kit:
The IR Camera detects those white strips that are moving up and down based on movement of the arms and legs.
If you look at the game shown, it shows the same pulley system on the robot's back:
What does the visor do? Although it wasn't seen in the footage, the left Joy-Con attached to the visor acts as a head tracker to move the camera in-game for Toy-Con 02.
One last tidbit, technically the robot you control in-game is a Skell:
What's newly confirmed:
- Jetpack
- Visor raised up gives you third person view
- Visor facing down gives you first person view
- Can shoot lasers while in vehicle mode
###
Since journalists couldn't test the Robot Kit like they did the Variety Kit, I decided to make this thread to describe how it works based on footage.
The product: https://labo.nintendo.com/kits/robot-kit/
As you can see in the above image, there is a backpack with extendable straps where the Right Joy-Con is inserted into the face of it.
There is a visor where the Left Joy-Con is inserted into a slot. (Yes, you only need to use two Joy-Cons with the Robot Kit and it's not used on your hands.)
There are four handles that act as pulleys, they are tied with string, two handles are held by the hands while the other two have straps to tie around the feet to hold it.
In the above image, you can see for the piano from the variety kit that the IR Camera is reading reflective strips of tape to detect the movement of the keys when pressed down.
This is similar to the backpack for the robot kit:
The IR Camera detects those white strips that are moving up and down based on movement of the arms and legs.
If you look at the game shown, it shows the same pulley system on the robot's back:
What does the visor do? Although it wasn't seen in the footage, the left Joy-Con attached to the visor acts as a head tracker to move the camera in-game for Toy-Con 02.
One last tidbit, technically the robot you control in-game is a Skell:
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