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ILM's Virtual Reality Lab

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The Verge has posted an interesting article about ILM's work on virtual reality with their ILMxLab -

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/13/91318 ... ars-movies
The group is a collaboration between all arms of the Lucasfilm empire, taking the visual effects expertise of ILM, the latest in real-time computer graphics from the Advanced Development Group, and the audio prowess of Skywalker Sound, and mixing it all together under the incomparable appeal of the Star Wars franchise.
...it nearly looks like a movie shot on film that I’m watching on an iPad. And it’s not a simple video file being played back either; the footage is being rendered in real-time on an ILM server and then streamed to the tablet...
"Walt Disney believed that he could take a fantasy world from cinema that he was making, and basically create a physical experience that you could walk into," Gaeta says. "This is like a 2.0, supercharged version of the same philosophy." It makes sense; when you zoom out, Gaeta’s grand vision resembles nothing so much as a digital Disneyland, and Walt Disney Imagineering even has a satellite team embedded at ILM for working on Disneyland attractions. "There’s a lot to be learned from those formats in the parks."
...Director Gareth Edwards has been using an xLab Oculus Rift set-up to preview and tweak set designs for his upcoming film Star Wars: Rogue One...
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