Star Wars is getting the VR treatment

Lightsaber battles, space dogfights and the Force… if there’s one major franchise that seems ripe to adopt the techno-wizardry of virtual reality, it’s Star Wars. And that’s exactly what’s happening. Soon enough, anyway. A video shared by Industrial Light and Magic shows how its effects gurus are working with Lucasfilm and Skywalker Sound to create the ILM Experience Lab – a new division focused on virtual-reality story telling. Given the teams are all intimately associated with Star Wars, it’s no surprise most of the assets shown off in the demo video include Star Wars properties – but that doesn’t make…

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