Star Wars at Sundance an augmented reality
Showing off The Holo-Cinema, a new technology being developed by Lucasfilm to expand the Star Wars universe to the living room.
Users, wearing augmented reality glasses, can explore the Jakku desert and walk around a three-dimensional C3PO while he neurotically frets and BB-8 rolls around. The world comes into 3-D focus with the glasses on. Without them, the scene looks like an unfocused projection against the wall.
In a few years, technology will have developed to the point where the projection and immersion could be experienced just by putting on a pair of augmented-reality glasses, he said. It could be accessed at theme parks installations, or by consumers in their own home.
Gaeta expects the augmented-reality technology to be prevalent in three to five years and mainstream for all sizes of movies in five to ten years. The team isn’t beholden to Star Wars; they’re also developing experiences for other filmmakers, he says.
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