{"id":368199,"date":"2026-01-13T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:01:09","slug":"lego-smart-brick-watch-an-immersive-15-minute-demo-like-youre-right-there-with-us-at-ces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368199\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Smart Brick: watch an immersive 15-minute demo like you\u2019re right there with us at CES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/855520\/i-played-with-the-lego-smart-brick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lego Smart Brick<\/a> won our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/858494\/ces-2026-best-new-tech-tv-car-wearable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best in Show award<\/a> at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons\u2019 expert demo there. So I thought: why not let you virtually attend the same tech demo I did? Before I left Las Vegas, I snuck back into Lego\u2019s suite to film a 15-minute uncut immersive video of what these bricks can do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It just so happens I brought an unusual camera to Las Vegas this year: a Qoocam Q3 Ultra modded for VR180 capture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/AppealMundane5486\/submitted\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Siyang Qi<\/a>. It creates spatial stereoscopic 3D video that you can experience in a headset (like the Meta Quest), or tap-to-drag on a flat screen, or even tilt using the sensors in your phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">To watch it on a Quest headset, you\u2019ll want to tap this video here on the website or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zJyxqoRxS0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click this YouTube link<\/a> while logged into your Google account. Then, open the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/experiences\/youtube\/2002317119880945\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube VR app<\/a> in your headset, tap your profile pic at the upper right, and select the History tab. It should be the newest video there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">For best results, tap the gear icon, and set video resolution as high as it will go (likely 2160s). We recorded and uploaded in 8K, not just 4K, but for some reason YouTube isn\u2019t showing us full resolution yet. Fingers crossed it\u2019ll appear later!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If this video stops working for whatever reason, you can find my original Lego Smart Brick hands-on video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/NXJlyDvnvHY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTMZyiVjKFT\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@verge\/video\/7592452056548494605\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>, and embedded below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Is VR180 something subscribers would like to see more of? Let us know, but no promises \u2014 the video workflow isn\u2019t as easy as I\u2019d hoped!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131726,786,59,227,86,23552,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-368199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ces","tag-gadgets","tag-gb","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-toys","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}