This weekend Industrial Light and Magic have been showing off a load of interesting and shiny toys to do with the Star Wars franchise, at the Star Wars Celebration event that's been held in London's ExCel centre. Among the things on show was a VR game/demo called Trials of Tatooine and now its been announced that the game will be made available free to Vive owners from Monday.
The game was co-written by Lucasfilm CTO Rob Bredow and Pablo Hidalgo, keeper of the Star Wars canon. Set in a time just after Luke Skywalker has defeated the Emperor, the Jedi Order is slowly being rebuilt and new hopefuls are being recruited to learn the ways of the Force.
As one of these hopeful padawan learners, you travel to Tatooine, end up aboard the Millenium Falcom and have a familiar astromech droid gift you a lightsaber to use. This is of course the thing that will appeal to fans young and old, and will be used through the experience to reflect blaster fire.
It's nice to see such a game being made available to adopters of the new VR tech, especially since I dare say it was one of the first things most people thought of when VR started to become a larger thing.
