David S. Goyer and Others Discuss The Story And Experience Of 'Vader Immortal'

By: Dominic Jones

In a new feature by Entertainment Weekly's Anthony Breznican, Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series writer David S. Goyer and other key creatives gave fans new insight into the story of the upcoming virtual reality experience, developed by ILMxLABs. The first episode of Vader Immortal will be available for $9.99 on the Oculus Quest headset on May 21st (just two weeks from now).  Two more episodes are slated to come out later this year.

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David Goyer Talks 'Vader Immortal' With 'The Star Wars Show'

By: Benjamin Hart

These days there's so much amazing new Star Wars content to get excited about! Some of the most fascinating and innovative projects by Lucasfilm come from the teams at ILMxLAB, which are developing incredible virtual reality experiences for Star Wars fans. We were just treated to a trailer for their latest creation, Vader Immortal, which brings you face to face with the Dark Lord of the Sith himself. Yesterday a new episode of The Star Wars Show dropped and it featured an interview with one of the biggest creators behind Vader Immortal, David Goyer.

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'Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series' Announced!

By: Dominic Jones

Lucasfilm and ILMxLAB announced today that a new Star Wars VR series, titled Vader Immortal, will launch in 2019 on the Oculus Quest in 2019.  Taking place between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, the three episode series is set on Mustafar, specifically at Vader's ominous castle first seen in Rogue One.  Vader Immortal is written by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins).  And, yes, the series is canon.  A teaser for the first episode in the series was released today on the ILMxLAB Youtube channel, which you can check out for yourself below,

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David S. Goyer and Diana Williams Talk 'Secrets of the Empire' on 'The Star Wars Show'

By: Dominic Jones

The end of 2017 saw the opening of Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire at Disney Springs in Orlando, Florida, a new hyper reality experience from ILMxLAB and The VOID.  Since then, locations have opened at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California, and London, England, with new locations expected to open in Los Angeles and Las Vegas later this year.  The experience takes fans on an undercover mission as a rebel cell as the infiltrate the Empire, with the help of Rogue One fan favourite droid K-2SO (voiced by Alan Tudyk).

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New VR Darth Vader Game From ILMxLAB, Written By David S. Goyer, Announced!

By: Dominic Jones

The ILMxLAB was the focus of a panel today at Star Wars Celebration Europe in London and they had big news, their first game that will be available for wide release!  It was announced that the new virtual reality game would be written by David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight) and will feature Darth Vader!  A short teaser (which has not made its way online yet) was also screened at the panel.

Goyer told StarWars.com,

“When we looked at all the characters, places, and worlds in the Star Wars universe available to us, we asked ourselves, ‘What haven’t we seen before? Who are we curious about?  Darth Vader is the perfect ambassador to usher us into the Star Wars VR universe.”

Next ILMxLAB Star Wars game will not be an experiment, it will be widely released and will be written by David S. Goyer!

— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) July 16, 2016

Next Star Wars ILMxLAB game will feature Darth Vader!!! pic.twitter.com/m2Rn42Bnve

— Star Wars Underworld (@TheSWU) July 16, 2016

In addition, it was announced that the ILMxLAB experiment Trials on Tatooine (which I had the pleasure of trying out today at Celebration, and it is fantastic, listen for my full report on an upcoming SWU Podcast) will be available for everyone on Steam.  To play the game you will need a HTC Vive VR headset.

No word yet on how or when the Darth Vader game will be released.  However, after playing the Trials on Tatooine today at Celebration, my excitement for this game is threw the roof!  The technology that ILMxLab is working on is truly incredible and I can't wait to experience a full game that way!

Big thanks to Rusty for live tweeting the panel for us!

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