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Apple and Star Wars share a history of collaboration, and that continues with the newest film premiering in May.\u00a0The Mandalorian & Grogu director Jon Favreau recently described how he used Apple Vision Pro to help bring Grogu to the biggest of big screens.<\/p>\n
Apple Vision Pro is a portable IMAX theater<\/p>\n
The Mandalorian & Grogu director Jon Favreau was interviewed by Matt Belloni during CinemaCon in Las Vegas recently.<\/p>\n
During the interview, Favreau named Apple Vision Pro as consumer technology used by him to help create the latest Star Wars movie. <\/p>\n
You can watch the full interview with Jon Favreau on YouTube below or listen on Apple Podcasts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Specifically, Favreau highlights the benefits of using consumer tech to create movies because of the rate of innovation compared to more niche technology: <\/p>\n There\u2019s a lot of great gaming tech that\u2019s being innovated. There was so little innovation around motion capture because there was only a handful of us using MotionBuilder. The doors flung open with gaming. <\/p>\n When you visited our set, we were using gaming hardware to drive a pre-production mo-cap splash pre-vis pipeline. Because now those are consumer-facing products, you see tremendous innovation in them. Just like we use the Apple Vision Pro on set.<\/p>\n In the case of Apple Vision Pro, the mixed reality headset is basically the director\u2019s sole viewpoint into framing up shots for IMAX from the set.<\/p>\n So I\u2019m making an IMAX movie and I\u2019m looking at a TV screen. No matter how big your TV screen is, it\u2019s not an IMAX screen. We built software so that I could pop on my Apple Vision Pro and be sitting in an IMAX movie theater and see the full aspect ratio when you\u2019re lining a shot up. <\/p>\n I could watch that take and see what people will see. That\u2019s a piece of technology that existed without us. We did a little bit of a software build on top of it, but we\u2019re leveraging in an industrial capacity consumer facing tech.<\/p>\n So there we have it: Apple Vision Pro has its fingerprints on the next Star Wars movie.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the final trailer for the upcoming Star Wars movie, starring the affectionately-dubbed Baby Yoda character:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you get the chance to view The Mandalorian & Grogu<\/a> on an IMAX screen when the film premieres in May, keep in mind that Apple Vision Pro was actually used to help line up some of those views.<\/p>\n More Apple and Star Wars shared history from over the years:<\/p>\n
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