Fans will be able to stream the experience through the “Star Wars” mobile app, available on iOS and Android devices, and the content will be viewable through Google Cardboard.
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Yup, be prepared for Star Wars surprises in your Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Chrome and more with Google’s first theme to extend across multiple products.
But there’s something they didn’t announce.
Google has (belatedly) come to the party, with a new plug-in letting you “awaken the force within” – basically, to bring Star Wars into every facet of your online life. “What if Google Translate could decipher galactic languages?’… and on and on and on”, Google vp product management Clay Bavor wrote in an introductory blogpost about the promotional campaign.
To restore the earlier settings, simply click on the “Back to Default” option on the page that asks for choosing sides.
In order to make this easter egg appear, type “A long time ago in a galaxy far far away” in the Google Search bar on a phone, tablet, or desktop computer. Lucky for us, today’s Star Wars easter egg is a lot more fun.
These include transforming Google Maps to include either Tie Fighters or the iconic Millennium Falcon.
While many people are counting down to this week’s holiday (or maybe to Black Friday), there’s a whole fandom out there that is probably most interested in what’s happening December 18: the premiere of the new “Star Wars” movie.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger was similarly cautious in his assessment of the Star Wars enthusiasm in his third-quarter conference call with Disney investors in August.
