Welcome to ILM's Secret STAR WARS Virtual Reality Lab
Industrial Light & Magic has a secret virtual reality lab called ILMxLab that they are using to help make the new Star Wars movies and other things. The Verge has released a video that takes us inside this lab, and it shows the kind of stuff that they are doing there. It features interviews with the crew and engineers who are developing the technology. It also shows us some footage of people playing around with it.
They are currently running several different experiments and looking to see which of them will be the most successful. In the process, the filmmakers who are developing all of the upcoming Star Wars films come into their lab and work and collaborate with them on different projects.
The lab is a developmental playground for any and all kind of interactive or immersive experience. Virtual reality, AR, theme park attractions; it’s all up for grabs, uniting decades of visual effects expertise, computer wizardry, and Lucasfilm’s own creative team into a self-contained entertainment studio of the future.
The goal isn’t to just create what people will be trying out on their Oculus Rift next year. It’s to come up with the interconnected virtual experiences we’ll be having 10 years from now. And you’d better believe they’re starting with Star Wars.
The future sure does look awesome!