Nintendo Labo Explained: 9 Things You Need To Know

7. It Proves The Right Joy-Con Has Functionality (A Built-In Camera) We All Missed

How's this for a real humdinger?! Turns out the IR sensor - which to date had only been used to fire out an invisible beam to measure distance, as seen in 1-2-Switch - is actually a camera too.

Though Nintendo showed a really tantalising glimpse of future Labo products (using the IR cam to snap pics in place of a lens, seen above), inside the Variety Kit is a set of small, "RC car"-style bugs, which have the Joy-Con placed so you can see out the front of them. This literally means you can pilot your bug around the house or wherever you like, spy cam-style, getting a ground view of everything as its beamed back to the tablet.

Strangely, the reality of having infrared imagery means everything will always look like it was shot at night-time, no matter what. So why show a full-on camera setup in the video, if the reality is far more fuzzy? Time will tell.