Star Wars is heading at light speed toward Google’s Cardboard headset, in the form of a new virtual reality experience that will be available from 2 December.
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Disney’s partnership with Google for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie is continuing apace, with VR content to be released soon. I assume that J.J. Abrams himself could have rattled off some Star Wars trivia, hence his role as the host.
“Over the next five years there’ll be more Star Wars entertainment than there’s been over the last 30 years”. If that wasn’t enough, Google has now planted a new Star Wars Easter egg.
See? Adventure! Excitement! I crave those things.
-Only a few select friends and family members of J.J. Abrams have seen the movie. When you search for Star Wars on Google, it generates millions of search results, whereas this Easter egg quick links to latest Star Wars news, images, Wikipedia page and other interesting stories from publications. ILMxLab have also been quiet on what the VR experience will be like, so there’s not a whole lot to go in terms of understanding the tie in to the film.
Sources at Variety predict The Force Awakens will easily pass this projected number, though with a film that has such universal awareness, it can be hard to predict just where the box office numbers will land. That’s actually a much larger spoiler (if true) than you might think, as many believe Rey to be the daughter of Luke Skywalker, and that she will spend Episode VII on a mission to find her estranged father.
“What they’re really saying underneath it is, ‘If you screw this up I’ll kill you'”.
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Oh, and evidently, we shouldn’t read too much into the fact that “this” rearranged spells “Sith”. Plus, Star Wars: The Force Awakens looks pretty dark, with General Hux and Captain Phasma set to scare the young ones even more than Darth Vader once did, so this rating was pretty much expected.
