{"id":92185,"date":"2019-04-18T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/341094"},"modified":"2019-04-18T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T21:40:00","slug":"nintendos-past-vr-research-laid-the-foundation-for-labo-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/nintendos-past-vr-research-laid-the-foundation-for-labo-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s past VR research laid the foundation for Labo VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch\u2019s Labo VR offers a different spin on virtual reality, and one that merges Nintendo\u2019s own uniqueness with the existing format.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/17\/18411200\/nintendo-switch-labo-vr-director-tsubasa-sakaguchi\">The Verge<\/a>, Labo director Tsubasa Sakaguchi explains that using Labo to bring VR to the Nintendo Switch was a natural fit, but it was one helped along by existing research done at the company.<\/p>\n<p>Sakaguchi doesn\u2019t dive too much into what direction Nintendo\u2019s earlier VR aspirations might have gone, but does say that the tactile and creative experience offered by Nintendo\u2019s craftable Labo kits proved to be the perfect vehicle for Nintendo\u2019s current-generation&nbsp;foray into VR.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always looking for that one overlap of \u2018technology meets familiar and accessible,'&#8221; he tells The Verge. \u201cWhen we thought about that little overlap, we thought the concept of Nintendo Labo and VR would be a great match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/4\/17\/18411200\/nintendo-switch-labo-vr-director-tsubasa-sakaguchi\">full writeup<\/a> explores some other aspects of Nintendo\u2019s unique cardboard-based Labo kits, like how the team went about designing the actual cardboard patterns or why they paid special attention to including small details like the click of a rotating camera lens in their creations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch\u2019s Labo VR offers a different spin on virtual reality, and one that merges Nintendo\u2019s own uniqueness with the existing format. In an interview with The Verge, Labo director Tsubasa Sakaguchi explains that using Labo to bring VR to the Nintendo Switch was a natural fit, but it was one helped along by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}