Bryan Bishop (@ Bcbishop) and The Verge video team recently took a visit to Industrial Light & Magic’s xLab. It’s a kind of next-generation entertainment sandbox, exploring virtual reality, augmented reality, and other immersive experiences — all under the umbrella of the Star Wars universe.

One of the people we spoke with is xLab creative director John Gaeta. John’s a real visual effects visionary. He created bullet time for the Matrix, pioneered new methods of virtual cinematography, he worked on Speed Racer. Hearing his ideas about the future of storytelling and an interconnected virtual world, all originating from stories like Star Wars, is a little like reading Ready Player One - only he and the xLab team are actually making it for real.

We liked what he had to say so much, that we decided to break out our interview with him into its own podcast.

Read and watch the full piece here:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/13/9131805/ilm-ilmxlab-interview-virtual-reality-star-wars-movies

youtube link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeaLgPMGzkQ

Thanks to Ryan Manning for editing this interview along with our xLab featurette, and to John Lagomarsino and Tom Connors for shooting the footage at ILM.

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