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Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge is the Latest VR Experience from ILMxLAB & Oculus Studios
ILMxLAB has had plenty of success bringing Star Wars into virtual reality (VR), whether that’s at home with Vader Immortal or on location with Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire. Today, the studio has announced its latest collaboration with Oculus Studios, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge.
The upcoming VR experience will be an extension for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge the new area at Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. If you’ve really wanted to go – but at the moment can’t for obvious reasons – then Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge could help fill the void.
Featuring an original story set between Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the title is slated to include both new and iconic characters from the sci-fi universe. Set on the planet of Batuu on the outskirts of the Black Spire Outpost, the videogame is said to contain: “multiple styles of gameplay and difficulty settings to accommodate a wide variety of players.” Whether this will be similar to Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series interactive film style remains to be seen.
“We are so excited for fans to step into Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge later this year,” said Vicki Dobbs Beck, ILMxLAB Executive-in-Charge in a statement. “This action-packed adventure not only speaks to the promise of connected and complementary experiences by extending the lore around Black Spire Outpost, it represents another meaningful step in ILMxLAB’s quest to transition from storytelling – one-way communication – to storyLIVING, where you’re inside a world making consequential choices that drive your experience forward.”
“We’re very happy to collaborate with ILMxLAB again on Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge. VR is an incredibly powerful storytelling medium; this experience will immerse fans in a deep and thrilling adventure within the Star Wars galaxy, as they are transported to impossible places through the power of virtual reality,” adds Mike Verdu, VP of Content, AR/VR at Facebook.
As Oculus Studios is involved expect Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge to be exclusive to its platform, with Oculus Quest support almost a given. Currently, the VR experience is expected to be released later this year. As further details are released, VRFocus will let you know.
Community Download: What’s The Best Star Wars VR Experience?
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today’s Community Download, we want to know what you think is the absolute very best Star Wars VR game or experience out there?
Today is May 4th, 2020, also known as May the Fourth, also known as Star Wars Day because Fourth sounds like Force. May the Fourth be with you, get it?
Chances are if you’re a VR fan then you’re a Star Wars fan and if you’re a Star Wars fan then you at least have a passing interest in VR. That’s just the law.
But the question is: what’s the best way to experience Star Wars in VR? Obviously there’s The Void, which has an amazing Star Wars location-based VR game that runs you and up to three others through a daring adventure across Mustafar as you narrowly escape Darth Vader’s base. But it’s a bit impossible to try that right now. Then there’s the excellent and totally underrated X-Wing VR Mission in the original Battlefront remake from DICE for PSVR. It still rocks. Plus, Vader Immortal is a wonderful episodic experience for Quest and Rift (coming to PSVR soon) that’s definitely worth experiencing. But maybe you prefer the fan-made variety instead? There’s one for flying an X-Wing, a series of Skyrim VR mods, a Robo Recall mod, and many others, to pick from too. We also rounded up a bunch of options a few years ago here.
Regardless of your choice, there are a lot of great options out there these days. What’s your pick for the very best Star Wars VR game or experience?
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The VOID’s New San Francisco Location Is Now Open
Today the newest branch of The Void, an immersive location-based VR experience center, opened in San Francisco, CA.
This newest location for The Void debuts with two of the company’s most popular attractions in the form of Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire and Ralph Breaks VR. Secrets of the Empire is featured outside of both Disneyland and Disney World and was created in partnership by Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB as an official part of Star Wars lore. We tried it and really enjoyed it.
Ralph Breaks VR uses a very similar physical space layout but takes place in the Wreck-it-Ralph universe and is a great option of families with younger children. We liked it too for what it was.
There is no word yet on if this location will also get Ghostbusters or Nicodemus, but some of the new, upcoming experiences yet to be revealed for this year and next are likely safe bets. We’re expecting to likely see more Marvel and Disney experiences for sure based on past announcements.
In related news, we’ve been big fans of the work Nomadic is doing as well and they’re expanding to multiple new locations too. Their Arizona Sunshine zombie experience was very impressive with lots of physical object interaction.
The Void’s San Francisco location is on the 4th floor of the Westfield Mall, just off the escalator, at 865 Market St. They’re open every day from 10AM – 9PM and you can buy tickets for either Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire or Ralph Breaks VR, the two experiences on offer at this location, on the official website.
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Knights of the Old Republic: Can Star Wars make a watchable video game movie?
Disney is developing a trilogy based on the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic video game, but even the Jedi are going to have trouble overcoming the long, disappointing history of subpar game-to-movie adaptations.
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The VOID’s Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire Coming to Second London Location
In December, location-based virtual reality (VR) specialist The VOID brought its highly anticipated experience Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire to London, UK, for a limited run. Currently running at the Westfield London (Shepherd’s Bush) shopping centre until 7th March, The VOID will now bring the hyper-reality videogame to Westfield Stratford City at the end of March.
While there’s still time to book in at the Westfield London (Shepherd’s Bush) location, if you happen to live on the other side of the city the new location might be more convenient. Once The VOID has packed up after 7th March it’ll reopen at Westfield Stratford City on 29th March 2018. Similar rules apply in that the experience will only be there for a limited time run, ending on Sunday, 13th May 2018.
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire uses The VOID’s own custom built, untethered VR system to freely move about the multi-sensory experience. The videogame puts players deep into the Star Wars universe, with its own unique story: “Under the orders of the budding rebellion, your team will travel to the molten planet of Mustafar. Your mission is to recover Imperial intelligence vital to the rebellion’s survival. Alongside the pragmatic droid K-2S0, your team must navigate through an enemy facility walking into danger at every turn. Disguised as stormtroopers, grab your blaster, solve puzzles, and fight giant lava monsters in an effort to fulfill your team’s orders.”
If you’ve not yet been or have and want to go again, you can currently book a place for either locations through The VOID’s website, but Westfield Stratford City will cost a little more for some reason. Standard tickets for Westfield London (Shepherd’s Bush) are priced at £32.50 GBP per person, with off-peak tickets are available for £30 per person. A standard ticket for Westfield Stratford City is £35.00 per person, with off-peak tickets still priced at £30.
Cliff Plumer, chief executive officer at The VOID said in a statement: “Hyper-reality experiences allow us to fully immerse ourselves within worlds that were beyond our reach until now. The power of The VOID will allow guests to step into Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire and not only see this spectacular world, but also hear, feel, touch and even smell as they realize they are a part of this incredible story.”
For any further updates from The VOID regarding locations for Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, keep reading VRFocus.