You’ll be able to access the VR experience in the official Star Wars app available on both iOS and Android devices. You can be on the light side or the dark side, and your choice will affect your Google account across a number of products.
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Google plans to roll out “Star Wars”-related changes leading up to the movie release next month”. The Gmail inbox background will also display Light or Dark Side images.
Other notable Star Wars-influenced apps include, Google Calendar, where key movie milestones have been added, and Google Now, which gives users “this day in Star Wars history facts”.
“It’s time for him to get his own place”.
Visit Google.com/StarWars from your browser (Chrome works best, of course) and choose your allegiance when signed in to your free Google account-work, education, and government accounts can’t use this feature. Below you can vote for which of the two sides you chose to fire up when you first saw Star Wars integration with Google services this morning (or afternoon, or night). Users can navigate their destinations with “the help of a TIE fighter or X-wing”.
The company said the website was a collaboration between Google, Lucasfilms and Disney, according to CCM.
Google says this isn’t the end of its Star Wars tributes, and promises that there’s more to come, including “the Millennium Falcon in all its (virtual reality) glory”. There are even more changes to Chrome, Chromecast, Google Translate, Waze, and more. Once you choose a side, your Google profile picture gets a red or white filter and then you wait.
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Google and Verizon have collaborated to launch a virtual reality experience for “Star Wars” on December 2.
