How ILMxLab brought the Galaxy’s Edge to virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 18, 2021
Updated June 18, 2025
10 min

Star Wars: Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge — Last Call debuted in virtual reality this week on Facebook’s Oculus Quest.

ILMxLab (a division of Disney’s Lucasfilm) debuted the first game, Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge, in November. In that VR experience, players crash landed on the planet Batuu.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.