ILM has made a Star Wars combined actuality expertise for Meta Quest

After announcing 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 exhibits some gameplay and provides a style of the opposite combined actuality experiences.

The expertise revolves round podracing. It contains three distinct modes, in line with 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 below the mentorship of the notorious Sebulba [from Star Wars Episode I].” Arcade provides 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 is not only a sport; it is a completely new approach 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 manner that is in contrast to something we have finished earlier than and we’re so excited to share a particular first look with our unbelievable Star Wars group.

I used to be a bit underwhelmed by what I noticed, although maybe the video does not do it justice. That mentioned, there’s a dearth of first rate combined actuality content material and any Star Wars IP will doubtless be welcome. ILM has let to announce a launch date and value for Star Wars: Past Victory — A Blended Actuality Playset however you possibly can no less than add it to your wishlist on the Meta Horizon store.

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