By Patrick Doyle Fans from all over the world gathered in Japan from April 18-20 for Star Wars Celebration 2025. In honor of this monumental event, ILM and Meta shared a special first look at their upcoming virtual and mixed reality experience Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset, currently in development for Meta Quest headsets. Additionally, demos for award-winning titles Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series and Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge were available at the booth. Here’s a recap of everything that went down at the ILM & Meta booth. The Booth: Step Inside the Star Wars Galaxy The ILM & Meta booth was a sensory playground inside the Makuhari Messe convention center. Massive screens played cinematic trailers, customized demo pods housed players during their sessions, and photo walls for each title were available for fans to snap a pic after going through the experience of their choice. With wait times of up to three hours, the booth also offered unique fixtures, like an interactive button wall, and a crew of knowledgeable staff were around to answer questions and help fans prepare for the adventures ahead. Creative director Joe Perez III and executive producer Alyssa Finley. To help set the tone, key representatives from the ILM team behind Star Wars: Beyond Victory, The Experiences: Three Unique Star Wars Adventures The ILM & Meta booth brought three unique experiences to Celebration, each telling their own story within the Star Wars galaxy: Connect with new and beloved Star Wars characters in a thrilling and creative experience. Through virtual and mixed reality, fans will get to adventure, race, and play in three modes. In development now. A three-part series that combines immersive cinematic storytelling with dramatic interactive play. Explore the world of Darth Vader and complete your journey to determine Mustafar’s fate. Available now. Experience action in the Batuu wilds with Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge and the Last Call add-on. Fight alongside classic characters like R2-D2 and C-3PO and take on unexpected alliances and deadly enemies. Available now. The Comic: An Original Story Written by Ethan Sacks As a special bonus to the fans at Celebration, an exclusive Marvel comic was available at the booth. Written by Ethan Sacks, it tells an original story about Volo Bolus before the events of Star Wars: Beyond Victory. Sacks and interior illustrators Steven Cummings & Shogo Aoki also stopped by the booth to meet fans and sign copies of the comic during the show. Beyond the Booth During Celebration, Alyssa and Jose were honored to go up on the Star Wars Celebration LIVE! Stage to talk about Star Wars: Beyond Victory, the ILM and Meta booth and, of course, to throw some t-shirts out to the audience.  The crew was also able to attend several incredible panels during the show including Light & Magic Season 2, Fifty Years of Magic: Celebrating the Legacy of Industrial Light & Magic, and Lucasfilm Publishing: Stories from a Galaxy Far, Far Away…The Force was Strong with this Booth With long lines, enthusiastic crowds and countless fans coming out thrilled/terrified to have seen Darth Vader up close or Sebulba atop a podracer after all these years, it’s clear that the virtual and mixed reality mediums offer completely new ways for fans to experience Star Wars storytelling. Whether you were honing your lightsaber skills in the dojo, tossing some repulsor darts at Seezelslak’s Cantina or testing your wits as a podracer, this booth offered exactly what we came to Celebration to do – showcase a different way to experience the galaxy we all love. We’ll have more information to share on Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset at a later date and, in honor of May the 4th, Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series and Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge are on sale for 66% off from now until 11:59PM PT on Monday, May 5 at the Meta Store and from Friday, May 2 until 11:59PM PT on Monday, May 5 on the PlayStation Store. We can’t thank all the fans enough for making this a Celebration to remember and we hope to see you all in Los Angeles in 2027! — Wishlist Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Reality Playset now, and watch the ILM.com Newsroom for the latest updates. Visit ILM.com/Immersive to learn more. New apparel and a tumbler celebrating the 50th anniversary of Industrial Light & Magic are now available on Amazon.com.— Patrick Doyle is a senior publicity manager at Industrial Light & Magic.