Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset from ILM Zooms into Star Wars Celebration - Update

ILM’s latest experience — coming to Meta Quest — will put you inside the world of podracing like never before, and you can be among the first to get your hands on it at Star Wars Celebration Japan.

April 18, 2025

Get ready to team up with Sebulba and go Beyond Victory!

Announcing Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset, the new experience in development at Industrial Light & Magic and Lucasfilm! Meet up-and-comer Volo Bolus as they join forces with the legendary podracer pilot Sebulba in this heart-pumping and engine-thrumping mixed reality experience. Set around the time of Solo: A Star Wars Story, Beyond Victory will feature an electrifying story and a variety of unique modes for players to enjoy.

Star Wars: Beyond Victory is currently in development for Meta Quest headsets – and fans in Tokyo are among the first to experience it.

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Meet Volo, Luuda, and an Especially Dangerous Dug

In their first look at Beyond Victory, Celebration attendees find themselves in the boots of young Volo Bolus, a podracer desperate to make a name for themselves. Luuda, Sebulba’s business partner, has a proposition for Volo, and they’re eager to accept. But do they really know what they’re getting into?

Take a look at the electrifying new trailer that debuted today at Star Wars Celebration!

In Beyond Victory, you’re in control of a podracer as it zips through canyons and races past (and occasionally into) obstacles on the podrace track. With Luuda and Sebulba in your ear offering tips, suggestions, and occasional insults, you’ll get a crash course in podracing unlike any other.

The VR experience will offer three distinct modes for fans to enjoy:

- Adventure: Using a combination of virtual and mixed reality, the story follows Volo – an aspiring podracer whose life gets flipped upside down under the mentorship of the infamous Sebulba.

- Arcade: Experience the thrill of podracing in mixed reality on a virtual holotable that brings players right into the heart of the action like never before.

- Playset: Transform the physical world around you and create your very own incredible Star Wars moments in mixed reality with a collection of unlockable virtual action figures and vehicles.

Only at Celebration

Marvel’s Star Wars: Beyond Victory cover

“We’re beyond excited to share an early look at this new experience with the incredible Star Wars community at Star Wars Celebration this year,” says Jose Perez III, Director of

Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset

. “Our goal at ILM has always been to find new and exciting ways for players to experience Star Wars stories. Focusing on mixed reality has opened several fascinating doors from an immersion standpoint and allows us to literally bring a galaxy far, far away right into the comfort of players’ homes in a way that’s unlike anything we’ve done before.”

Plus, an original Marvel comic will delve into the prequel story for the experience and is available only as a giveaway at the ILM/Meta booth during Star Wars Celebration Japan. Get your first look at the cover art by Phil Noto for Marvel’s Star Wars: Beyond Victory, written by Ethan Sacks, with interior illustrations by Will Sliney, Steven Cummings, and Shogo Aoki.

Celebration attendees can get some hands-on (and headset-on) time at over a dozen playable Quest stations equipped with the first look at Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset, as well as demos for fan favorites Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series and Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge.

Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 takes place April 18 - 20 at the Makuhari Messe convention center. The ILM/Meta activation can be found at Hall 4, Booth #20-5.

Stay tuned as more information on Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset is revealed at Star Wars Celebration 2025!

Kelly Knox is the author of Star Wars Conversation Cards, Be More Obi-Wan, and Star Wars: Dad Jokes, and a co-author of the upcoming The Phantom Menace: A Visual Archive. Her puns are always intended.