For years, we’ve enjoyed watching Star Wars stories from the outside. And typically Star Wars in VR and AR feels more like a very cool tech demo than a full immersion into a galaxy far, far away. But with Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series - Episode 1, it seems like ILMxLab has crafted an untold chapter in the Star Wars saga that fans will love. This thing is no tech demo.
Darth Vader needs your help. But are you worthy? That’s the set up for Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series — Episode I, a new VR experience developed by ILMxLab for Oculus platforms telling a canon story set between Episodes III and IV.
Right now, even the mightiest graphics card on the market would melt like Mustafar trying to render this new Star Wars short made with Epic Games' Unreal engine. But in the future, Nvidia hopes new technology it showed off this week will bringing gamers one step closer to some ... well, very shiny graphics.
