A virtual reality experience will bring Disney's Galaxy's Edge theme parks into the homes of Star Wars fans everywhere.
ILMxLAB, in tandem with Facebook's Oculus Studios, has announced a new virtual reality project entitled Star Wars: Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge. Slated for release later in 2020, the game is set in the time period between The Last Jedi and Rise of the Skywalker. It will take place in the Black Spire Outpost on the planet Batuu, the location represented by the Galaxy's Edge theme parks.
"Our guests can immerse themselves in these stories both inside and outside our parks," Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Executive Scott Trowbridge said.
Meanwhile, ILMxLAB Executive-in-Charge Vicki Dobbs Beck said that Tales From the Galaxy's Edge "not only speaks to the promise of connected and complementary experiences by extending the lore around Black Spire Outpost, it represents another meaningful step in ILMxLAB’s quest to transition from storytelling – one-way communication – to storyliving, where you’re inside a world making consequential choices that drive your experience forward."
Tales From the Galaxy's Edge is the newest extension of the Galaxy's Edge theme parks, which opened in Disneyland in May 2019 and in Disney's Hollywood Studios in August 2019.
Star Wars: Tales From the Galaxy's Edge has yet to receive a release date.
(via Variety)