GoKawiilApple and Star Wars share a history of collaboration, and that continues with the newest film premiering in May. The Mandalorian & Grogu director Jon Favreau recently described how he used Apple Vision Pro to help bring Grogu to the biggest of big screens.
Apple Vision Pro is a portable IMAX theater
The Mandalorian & Grogu director Jon Favreau was interviewed by Matt Belloni during CinemaCon in Las Vegas recently.
During the interview, Favreau named Apple Vision Pro as consumer technology used by him to help create the latest Star Wars movie.
You can watch the full interview with Jon Favreau on YouTube below or listen on Apple Podcasts:
Specifically, Favreau highlights the benefits of using consumer tech to create movies because of the rate of innovation compared to more niche technology:
There’s a lot of great gaming tech that’s 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. 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.
In the case of Apple Vision Pro, the mixed reality headset is basically the director’s sole viewpoint into framing up shots for IMAX from the set.
So I’m making an IMAX movie and I’m looking at a TV screen. No matter how big your TV screen is, it’s 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’re lining a shot up. I could watch that take and see what people will see. That’s a piece of technology that existed without us. We did a little bit of a software build on top of it, but we’re leveraging in an industrial capacity consumer facing tech.
So there we have it: Apple Vision Pro has its fingerprints on the next Star Wars movie.
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