Build Fossils to Create Life-Sized Dinosaurs in Your Living Room With ‘Le Dino Labo,’ Out Today on Meta Quest

Imagine building the skeleton of a T-Rex bone-by-bone — and then seeing it at life-size, standing before you. That’s what’s offered by the puzzle-building experience Le Dino Labo, and it’s available today on Meta Quest.

Le Dino Labo’s premise is simple: get your hands on a dinosaur skeleton. The game provides you with a bag of fossil bones you can dump out in your own space. Then, it’s a matter of piecing the skeleton together by figuring out where each bone connects with the others to build the larger animal. You’ll know you have it right when a bone snaps into place, and with three difficulty levels, you’ll find a challenge that’s right for you.

When you’re finished, you’ll have a miniature dinosaur skeleton to enjoy on your table. But Le Dino Labo takes things one step further. Le Dino Labo gives you a life-size reveal moment, placing the skeleton in the environment around you, so you can get a sense of what a dinosaur might have actually looked like — and what it’d be like to stand next to one.

Developer Realcast created Le Dino Labo not just to be an interesting and challenging puzzle game, but to be an educational experience, too. The game provides you with scientific information about each creature as you build, and it works to help you learn the anatomy of a dinosaur and the ways their skeletons are constructed. But there’s no better teacher than getting hands-on with the bones themselves and seeing how they work.

Le Dino Labo’s mix of engaging puzzles and hands-on education have allowed it to capture players’ imaginations. Those elements also helped Realcast take home an award in the Meta Horizon Start Developer Competition, a hackathon challenge launched in 2025 that focused on encouraging developers to create innovative and immersive experiences for Meta Horizon OS.

To celebrate the release of Le Dino Labo, we sat down with Realcast Co-founder Nino Sapina and Project Lead Théodore Pelluard to talk about the team’s approach to creating fun puzzles based on real dinosaur skeletons, and how the team intends to expand the game with more dinosaurs beyond its launch.

At Realcast, we focus on physics-based interaction and hand tracking. With our background in museum experiences, mixed reality felt like the natural evolution: build a dinosaur on your table, then reveal it at life scale in your own space.

Dinosaurs are universal icons, and seeing a T-Rex you’ve just built suddenly appear where your couch was seconds before is a uniquely mixed reality moment.

The skeletons are inspired by real specimens but adapted for clarity and satisfying gameplay.

Players choose between three difficulty levels, adjusting the number of bones to assemble. The largest build includes up to 151 bones, detailed yet accessible.

It blends classic puzzle-solving with hands-on spatial construction in true 3D.

Yes. We studied scientific references and explored extensive paleontology resources to ground the experience in real data.

We see the experience as a gateway, something that sparks curiosity and encourages players to explore more, including real-world museums.

The base game includes five dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus Rex, Spinosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Styracosaurus, and Pteranodon.

Three additional species are arriving shortly after launch in our first DLC, Jurassic Giants.

We selected a mix of prehistoric icons and slightly lesser-known species to combine familiarity with discovery.

Each dinosaur includes key facts: size, era, defining traits, plus additional insights unlocked during the build.

For example, players discover how Parasaurolophus may have used its cranial crest for sound resonance. Learning happens naturally through interaction.

Puzzling Places inspired the calm, satisfying construction flow, and Cubism influenced the precision of manipulation.

Le Dino Labo extends that approach into full spatial building; tactile, immersive, and amplified by life-scale mixed reality presence.

We see Le Dino Labo as the foundation of a growing mixed reality dinosaur universe built around tactile, spatial construction.

New dinosaurs will arrive regularly, starting with Jurassic Giants, alongside deeper customization and new ways to interact with completed builds, all evolving with community input.

The competition pushed us to refine the concept under real pressure and ensure the core interaction was instantly compelling.

Winning was a turning point, it gave us the confidence and energy to expand the prototype into a complete, polished mixed reality experience.

We’re excited to see how players integrate dinosaurs into their own spaces —classrooms, living rooms, creative setups. That shift from tabletop precision to life-scale presence is where mixed reality shines.

And we’re grateful to the Meta Horizon Start team for supporting the project from prototype to launch.

Start testing your dino-building skills and seeing if a T-Rex can fit in your home with Le Dino Labo today. You can find it on the Meta Horizon Store for $4.99 USD.