ILMxLAB announces panel for Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge – Enhanced Edition, their Star Wars VR Experience, at Star Wars Celebration Europe. The PlayStation®VR2 title will be unveiled during the event in London as the creative team gives fans a look at the process involved in creating the recent VR release. The Beyond the Spires: Making of Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge panel will provide a behind-the-scenes look featuring the voice of Mubo, Matthew Wood.
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge is a Virtual Reality first-person shooter game designed by the ILMxLab, which previously created and released the Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series. The game was originally released in 2020 for the Oculus Quest system (Meta Quest) and was given DLC in September 2021 called Last Call. The VR Title was nominated for VR Game of the Year by the VR Awards 2022 and was recently released for the PlayStation®VR2 on February 22, 2023. The player takes on the role of a droid repair technician who gets swept up into a grand adventure when you crash land on the planet Batuu, following an attack by the Guavian Death Gang.
Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge Panel Revealed
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ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s award-winning immersive storytelling studio, will be giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at the hit PlayStation®VR2 experience Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge – Enhanced Edition during a panel at Star Wars Celebration Europe. Matthew Wood, who voices the fan-favourite character Mubo, will take the stage with key members of the ILMxLAB development team who helped bring the experience to life.
Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge Panel Panel Details:
Title: Beyond the Spires: Making of Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge
Description: Hear from key creators of Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge – Enhanced Edition, the hit experience on PlayStation VR2 that expands and explores the world of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and get a behind-the-scenes look at how this VR adventure came together.
Panelists: Matthew Wood (Mubo), Ronman Ng (CG Supervisor) and Jacob Edelen (Lead Experience Designer)
Host: Holly Frey
Date, Time, and Stage: Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. GMT on the Twin Suns Stage
ABOUT MUBO
A sixth-generation droid builder and technological genius, Droid Depot owner Mubo (voiced by Matthew Wood) loves tinkering at his bench and talking to anyone that will listen. To keep his business booming, he relies on a handful of ships to keep parts moving steadily into Batuu. As an extension of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the immersive and epic lands at Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, fans can also visit Mubo’s Droid Depot at Black Spire Outpost in the Parks.
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The VR game has allowed many fans to dive into the Galaxy of Star Wars and offered an unforgettable immersive experience. It’s a great opportunity to discover how the team manages to create the wonderous adventure, while also providing interactions with iconic characters. The game has only recently been added to the PlayStation®VR2 library but the game has been a fan favorite and perfectly captures the essence of the franchise. It will be exciting to discover how the team worked to achieve this masterpiece for fans to enter their beloved franchise.
Beyond the Spires: Making of Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge will be hosted at the Star Wars Celebration Europe this weekend. The panel will start at 2 p.m. GMT on Sunday, April 9, on the Twin Suns Stage.
ABOUT STAR WARS: TALES FROM THE GALAXY’S EDGE
Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge gives players the opportunity to live their own adventure and explore a new part of a galaxy far, far away in virtual reality. The original story features both new and iconic characters from the Star Wars universe with multiple styles of gameplay and difficulty settings to accommodate a wide variety of players, from Star Wars fans to VR gamers alike.
Primarily taking place between Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on the planet of Batuu, the adventure is set on the outskirts of Black Spire Outpost of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the immersive and epic lands at Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge originally released on Meta Quest, with part I releasing in November 2020 and part II in September 2021.
ABOUT ILMxLAB
ILMxLAB is Lucasfilm’s award-winning immersive storytelling studio, pioneering a new era of interactive entertainment through world-building and character development. ILMxLAB crosses platforms, deepens engagement, and transitions storytelling to “storyliving” through virtual and mixed reality experiences. The studio is known for the Emmy-nominated Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, location-based experiences like CARNE y ARENA, the Oscar-winning collaboration with Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Legendary Entertainment, Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, and Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Damage Control, and much more. ILMxLAB believes that allowing audiences to interact with compelling characters in engaging stories can have a profound impact, and create lasting memories.
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