[Update] Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine revealed for HTC Vive

Update on March 15th at 10:09: Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine as now been officially revealed and the experience seems to be 10 minutes long. Here's the first teaser trailer:

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With an inadvertent early trailer release, a Virtual Reality Star Wars experience from ILMxLab has been confirmed for HTC Vive.

Likely to be fully revealed during GDC, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine is set on the desert-like homeplanet of Anakin Skywalker, and will feature many Star Wars prerequisites, such as R2D2, the Millennium Falcon, and - of course - Lightsabers.

ILMxLab are an experimental part of Lucasfilm's special effects division, and their recent work includes bringing Holo-Cinema to the Sundance Film Festival. This would be their first official VR release.

While the images don't give much away, the experience is described as a 'Cinematic Virtual Reality Experiment', which perhaps suggests this will be more of a tech-demo as opposed to a fully developed game.

However, it does appear that you'll get to run around the beautifully barren planet, controlling the iconic illuminated sword with Vive's position tracked controllers and that sounds totally fine to us!

A Star Wars VR experience was originally slated to release alongside The Force Awakens back in December, but after Vive was pushed back it would seem the game followed suit.

This strongly suggests that Trials on Tatooine will now be a HTC Vive launch title, and will certainly give the headset even broader mainstream appeal when it hits next month.

We'll likely learn more about Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine later this week as the studio has a developer session on 'Immersive Cinema: Stories from the Experiments Underway at Lucasfilm's ILMxLab' on the 15th March. We'll update this story when we hear more.