After saying it final month, ILM has revealed extra particulars of its combined actuality "playset" known as Star Wars: Past Victory for Meta Quest headsets. At its Star Wars Celebration 2025 in San Francisco, ILM launched a brand new video that exhibits some gameplay and provides a style of the opposite combined actuality experiences.
The expertise revolves round podracing. It contains three distinct modes, based on ILM's press launch: Journey, Arcade and Playset. The primary makes use of digital and combined to actuality to observe Volo, "an aspiring podracer whose life will get flipped the wrong way up underneath the mentorship of the notorious Sebulba [from Star Wars Episode I]." Arcade gives podracing in combined actuality on a digital holotable, and Playset lets gamers create "Star Wars moments in combined actuality with a group of unlockable digital motion figures and automobiles."
We're calling this a Playset as a result of it isn't only a recreation; it's a wholly new technique to expertise the Star Wars galaxy and the worlds we create at ILM. This new combined actuality expertise blends the bodily and digital worlds in a approach that's in contrast to something we've accomplished earlier than and we’re so excited to share a particular first look with our unimaginable Star Wars group.
I used to be a bit underwhelmed by what I noticed, although maybe the video doesn't do it justice. That mentioned, there’s a dearth of respectable combined actuality content material and any Star Wars IP will doubtless be welcome. ILM has let to announce a launch date and worth for Star Wars: Past Victory — A Blended Actuality Playset however you possibly can a minimum of add it to your wishlist on the Meta Horizon retailer.
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