Darth Vader VR Experience Being Written By BATMAN V SUPERMAN Writer David S. Goyer

@JoelMcCronin

Not a movie.

From CBR:

"Although this Darth Vader project has been widely referred to as a movie, ILMxLab is quick to emphasize that it’s not that, but rather “a story experience in virtual reality.” What form that will ultimately take remains to be seen."

Insert customary response to David Goyer writing something:



Lol

I look forward to interactive cinema that allows me to lean in and touch the characters.

One day when they release a VR conversion of the Big Lebowski, I'm going to put my face between John Turturro's legs and sniff that ballsack.

Seriously though, how is this technology not going to devolve into just frustrated attempts by the audience to see what can and can't be interacted with? It's like those old text adventure games where the first command people enter is always "take off your pants". Let's say for the sake of argument that they put Felicity Jones in his Vader game.

Either they indulge the boob touchers, or they deny them. Both are actually pretty bad choices. Like so many of the current generation VR tech demos that rely on a very limited space or teleportation to navigate the game, it severely limits the immersion and sense of freedom that VR is supposed to have if you can only interact with it in a very few preprogrammed ways. On the other hand, any indulging of prurient play starts down an immensely slippery slope for it to be mainstream technology.

Just like 3D, this whole thing looks to me like a technology in search of a purpose, and that only works if you have Apple convince people to buy it without knowing what it's for. As much as I would like to see gaming and film to move in this direction, I just think the tech isn't ready until we have computers smart enough to extrapolate and predict people's behavior organically and adapt the experience to the user on the fly.

Pretty sure he is the one who wrote Martha, goofy luthor etc

Good luck, Disney. You're going to need it. If his horrific influence seeps into your Marvel Studios properties, you are going to have the same problems DC Films did.