After saying it final month, ILM has revealed extra particulars of its combined actuality "playset" referred to 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 reveals some gameplay and provides a style of the opposite combined actuality experiences.
The expertise revolves round podracing. It consists of three distinct modes, in keeping with ILM's press launch: Journey, Arcade and Playset. The primary makes use of digital and combined to actuality to comply with Volo, "an aspiring podracer whose life will get flipped the other way up below the mentorship of the notorious Sebulba [from Star Wars Episode I]." Arcade presents 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 autos."
We're calling this a Playset as a result of it isn't only a sport; it's a wholly new option 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 finished 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 stated, there’s a dearth of respectable combined actuality content material and any Star Wars IP will probably be welcome. ILM has let to announce a launch date and value for Star Wars: Past Victory — A Blended Actuality Playset however you’ll be able to at the least add it to your wishlist on the Meta Horizon retailer.
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