Saturday, July 02, 2016
Magic Leap & Lucasfilm are Making Your Star Wars Dreams a Reality
Sound & Picture: Magic Leap, the mysterious US tech startup with more venture capital than you can shake a Pacific Heights condo at, recently posted an incredibly impressive video of a collaboration with Lucasfilm. The video shows off Magic Leap’s mixed-reality technology, which is essentially a headset that allows users to see, hear, and interact with a computer-graphic hyperreality superimposed onto normal, everyday waking life, including all of the odds and ends in your living room.
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This article about mixed reality technology was really interesting. Partly because of the advances in technology today and partly because star wars is awesome and to interact with the characters would be really cool. There are so many insane technological advances like virtual realities where you’re actually immersed in the world (like this one) and skateboards that don’t require moving your foot. It’s really cool to see what people come up with these days. This particular virtual reality appeals to the young generation today because it’s not just a general virtual reality, it’s a Star Wars virtual reality. Most young people nowadays love Star Wars (or at least know what it is) and that’s a really good way to appeal to the public. This advancement furthers people’s imaginations by showing what it would be like to be in the Star Wars world. Plenty of people have wondered what it would be like and now they have a chance to experience it.
This article paints a very vivid picture of what the near future could look like, and it is incredibly similar to the vision sci-fi has been selling for decades. While I am consistently amazed by advancements in Virtual Reality technology, I believe that any piece of technology that superimposes this virtual reality on to your everyday surroundings is inherently dangerous. The use of this technology in any environment where danger is possible, could lead to some terrible accidents. While it is true that any somewhat intelligent consumer should avoid situations where they could be in danger, assuming the intelligence of consumers is, at least in the US, never the right path.
The new possibilities for VR continue to astound me as company upon company continues to make newer and better hardware and software, but this company’s use of a big name in entertainment like Star Wars and a combination of VR and RL components to make an interactive world might take the lead in this new and ever growing race. I think Lucasfilms is making a good decision in investing in this kind of software, as Star Wars in inherently unreal with it’s sci-fi universe but attractive to everyone watching it from kids to adults, and the material’s already existent popularity combined with the integration into a fantastical and wondrous world will make it impossible to resist. I’m interested to see who will be joining Lucasfilms in the making of VR worlds and of course, if Star Trek will be following Star Wars in the ever growing race of which Star series is better. Anyway, as a huge nerd I am super excited to see where this is going and will be keeping tabs on it!
Virtual Reality and Star Wars, two of my favorite things coming together as one. The inner child in me is squealing and jumping up and down because, HELLO R2-D2 is going to be in your living room!! However, the skeptic/reasonable tech person in me says that it probably won’t work well when it first comes out and that once it does work, it will cost a boatload of money and there will be no practical use for it. Again, the five year old in me is bouncing of the walls yelling “SCREW PRATICAL I WANT STAR WARS”. Well, I am sad to disappoint myself, but I also realize that movies in a movie theater are almost meant to give you the same experience. While Star Wars may not be in my living room, it’s not the way it was meant to be enjoyed, and as someone who works in theater, I can tell you, everything looks better from 20 feet away.
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