It’s worth pulling out a headset if you have one.
It’s worth pulling out a headset if you have one.
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The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons’ 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’s suite to film a 15-minute uncut immersive video of what these bricks can do.
It just so happens I brought an unusual camera to Las Vegas this year: a Qoocam Q3 Ultra modded for VR180 capture by Siyang Qi. 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.
To watch it on a Quest headset, you’ll want to tap this video here on the website or click this YouTube link while logged into your Google account. Then, open the YouTube VR app in your headset, tap your profile pic at the upper right, and select the History tab. It should be the newest video there.
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’t showing us full resolution yet. Fingers crossed it’ll appear later!
If this video stops working for whatever reason, you can find my original Lego Smart Brick hands-on video at YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok, and embedded below.
Is VR180 something subscribers would like to see more of? Let us know, but no promises — the video workflow isn’t as easy as I’d hoped!