'Star Wars' fan-made VR experience puts you in an X-Wing Fighter

In a galaxy far, far away, an incredible virtual reality video of Star Wars put everyone in the seat of an X-wing Starfighter

Unfortunately, Lucasfilm, the studio behind the Star Wars franchise, issued a cease and desist.

That order forced the video's creators, HammerheadVR, to scrub it from Vimeo. Fortunately, someone managed to save a version of the epic video on YouTube. It doesn't have sound, but it's nearly as good

Using the Unreal Engine 4, the Oculus Rift-ready experience puts you in the cockpit during an X-wing space battle, in the seat of a 74-Z speeder bike in the forests of Endor and airborne while fighting on the snowy planet Hoth. Read more...