- Oh, that's crazy! - Parry! Thrust!
- I've waited a very long time to be able to do this.
- (FBE) Thomas and Ben, thank you guys so much
for coming in today.
- Yeah. - Oh, please.
- (FBE) So, everyone in this episode has something in common.
You are all huge Star Wars fans.
- Mmm. - That's true.
- I remember when I played Luke Skywalker in Episode IV: New Hope.
- That wasn't Mark Hamill? - I don't think so.
- I kind of distinctly remember it being Mark Hamill.
- No, I remember it was me. - (FBE) Would you say you're more
of a light side person or a dark side person?
- I'm definitely-- the force is with me.
Now, don't get me wrong, the dark side has
some cool spaceships. I like the hero.
You know, Luke, you know, you wanna be on the hero's side, right?
- If I had nothing to do personally with playing a Star Wars character
and being in the Star Wars universe, I would probably be a little dark side.
- Light side. What are you crazy? - Dark!
- Light s-- of course-- - DARK!
- Of course you're dark side. - Just rage.
- Oh. Wow, wow, wow, wow.
To camera one would be great. - And they all have TO PAY!
(snarls) - (Ben) To camera one would be great.
- (FBE) Thanks to our friends at Oculus, you're going to get
a chance to visit a galaxy far, far away with Vader Immortal
by ILMxLab on the recently launched Oculus Quest starting at 399.
Vader Immortal is an immersive three-part Star Wars story
that takes you inside Darth Vader's mysterious fortress.
It's an interactive narrative experience
that takes place between episodes III and IV.
- I mean, I didn't know you could go in between these places.
I didn't know there was an in between.
- I have heard of VR. I'm familiar with sort of
the general concept of it, but I have never done it myself.
So, I'm super excited and a little bit scared.
- I have only done VR once at my friend's house.
I'm very excited. You have done it many times.
- Yeah, I've "done" VR a lot. - (Ben) Okay.
- I get in the zone with VR. - Oh, god.
- (FBE) So, go ahead and open that box and see what's inside.
- Okay. Whoa.
- Okay, you got a box. - Okay.
Excellent. Excellent. - Is that how the unboxing goes?
- Yeah, you got some box. - You have your-- I'm assuming
we call this the VR headset. - Nice and tight packaging.
- (FBE) The Oculus Quest has no wires, no external sensors,
and no need for a PC. - That's cool.
I'm with it. I'm with it. - (FBE) The easy set up
and built-in tracking make this all-in-one headset
the most portable VR experience to date.
Are you ready to get into this? Do you wanna try Vader Immortal?
- Yeah. I mean, you sold me. I'm ready now.
- ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! YEAH!!!
- Oh my god! (laughs) With my hands?
- Look at my [bleep] fingers. - ♪ He's a Vader and he's immortal ♪
♪ He can't be killed ♪ - "A long time ago
in a galaxy far, far away." Oh my gosh! (laughs)
- Oh my god! - (ZO-E3) We'd better move it, Captain.
- Okay. - (ZO-E3) We gotta jump to hyperspace.
- Okay. How do we do that? - Okay. Hyperdrive.
Bee-doo, ba-dop, beep, boop, bop!
- (ZO-E3) All right. Hyperdrive controls are active.
Make the jump to light speed. - Yo, this is crazy.
- Oh, guys. We're gonna be all right.
- (ZO-E3) Nice one, Captain! - You got it, girl.
- (Ben) Tell me what to turn, kid. Turn what?
- (FBE) You can turn around. There should be ship behind you.
- (Ben) Oh. OHHH!
- Okay. I'm checking on the loot, guys.
Oh my gosh. (laughs)
- (ZO-E3) ...Vinta Harvest Classic? I know I do.
- Oh, amazing. I'm wearing a helmet now, by the way. NBD.
- (ZO-E3) However, please don't do it again.
- Oh, look. Just... (grunting)
Ah, I wanna break it!
- This is so weird. - (ZO-E3) Switching to defense systems.
- Switching to defense systems. I'm doing this now? Yup.
Here. Got it. Found it. - (ZO-E3) Aww, scrag.
Looks like we... - "Scrag." (chuckles)
I didn't know that was a curse word in Star Wars.
- (ZO-E3) Something's wrong, Captain. Let's go check it out.
- Watch this. I know how to walk now.
I'll just go there with you.
- (ZO-E3) Something's pulled us out of hyperspace and put us down
in the Atravis sector. - Well, it must be an interceptor.
It must be an interceptor!
- Oh, you can-- (laughs) - Or Interdictor. Interdictor.
Right? An Inter-- it's a Star Destroyer,
the Interdictor class. - This is Admiral Karius
of the Galactic Empire. Surrender control
of your ship immediately. - (ZO-E3) The windfall
is a humble salvage vessel. - (Admiral Karius) Anything short
of immediate compliance will result in your destruction.
- (ZO-E3) My bad, Admiral. Sorry about that.
Slaving our ship's guidance to your Imperial control now.
- What are we gonna do? - (ZO-E3) Aww, scrag.
- Scrag! (chuckles) Scrag it!
Ah, scrag me all to hell.
- (ZO-E3) That looks like Mustafar.
- Yeah, this is Mustafar. - (ZO-E3) ...mining planet.
Why are the Imperials taking us there?
- Oh, I have a guess.
♪ (dramatic music) ♪ - Mordor!
- (ZO-E3) I got a bad feeling... - Oh, who's got two thumbs
and likes fine chips? This guy!
(laughs) This guy! We're gonna be all right.
Is that literally why that exists?
Hey, we're gonna be okay.
- (groaning) Okay, wait. You weren't cleared for take off.
We have landing traffic.
- Okay, just a very morbid lair that we're entering. No problem.
No big deal. - I'm a Jedi, and I know
a couple of tricks.
- Something's gonna come out from there.
It's gonna be terrifying. Yeah, I'm gonna need a killing device.
- Oh, dear. - (ZO-E3) Oh, uh, just--
just a moment! - Oh my god!
- (chuckles) - Hey, relax.
- Crack, crack, crack, koo, koo, koo, koo, koo!
Oh, I'll give them the thumbs up. - What's that? Oh my god!
(laughs) Oh my goodness.
- (Admiral Karius) You've cost us considerable inconvenience, smuggler.
- (ZO-E3) Smugglers? Who said we were smugglers?
Who these-- (laser shooting)
- Oh, [bleep]. - (Admiral Karius) Take them both...
- Scrag! Ah, scraggit. - (Admiral Karius) Take them both
to the holding cells. - (chuckles) Yeah, this is crazy.
- So cool. So cool! - My name is Admiral Karius.
In a moment, Darth Vader, lord of this monolith,
will give you a task at which you will undoubtedly fail.
You are not the first candidate to fall under his scrutiny.
And you will likely not be the last.
♪ (ominous music) ♪ - (Darth Vader breathing)
- Vader. I didn't expect to see you here.
- (imitates guns shooting)
Oh, that's crazy! - (Darth Vader) You may wonder
why I have brought you here. - (chuckles) Darth Vader's seven feet.
- You may wonder why I have brought you here.
- Oh, it's right there! It's right there!
- (Darth Vader) Open this configuration,
and I will spare you life.
- You just can't solve a puzzle? - Sure. You got it.
- So... oh! There you go.
- You brought me all the way here to do this?!
Are you so insane?! You push these.
You get the dandonian wands and the crystal flickers in there.
- You see how you can really move your fingers?
- (FBE) Yeah. - That's crazy.
- You brought me all the way here to do this. This is crazy.
Great. Can I go?
- Oh... You're welcome.
- (Darth Vader) This is the one I've been searching for.
- Darth Vader's huge.
- (Darth Vader) I will send for you shortly.
- Cool, cool, cool. - That is unbelievably cool.
- Oh my gosh. That was insane.
- (FBE) Does it make you wanna go fight with a lightsaber now?
- Yeah. - (FBE) Yeah?
- Yeah. - (FBE) All right.
- Fight with a lightsaber? Hell yeah.
- Oh, can I? Can I? - Ahh...
- (FBE) Oh, don't pick it up yet. - (disappointed) Ah!
- (FBE) Pick your lightsaber. - Oh, you--
- (FBE) So, we've got four there for you to choose from.
- I mean, [bleep]. You know what? Purple.
Let's have some fun. - (FBE) Go ahead and pick it up.
- Really? - (FBE) Yeah!
And use your trigger button to start it.
(lightsaber buzzes)
- Oh, ahhh!
Hoo-hoo-hoo!
I've waited a very long time to be able to do this.
- Come on! (grunts) Oh! (grunting)
(lasers shooting) (lightsaber buzzing)
- Oh, ho! (chuckles) - Okay, so I'm-- oh my god.
Ah! (laughs)
(lasers shooting) - Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
He's behind me?
- Can't even get a shot off with me around!
- I'm trying to block that like in the-- there you go.
You gotta try to get 'em like that.
- Oh, okay. All right. New joint.
(chuckles) This is so crazy.
- All right, let's do this. Come at me, bro.
- Careful! I'm the chosen one. I solved the cube.
Okay.
You're telegraphing.
- Oh! I see how this works.
Make you think you could really do this for real. (laughs)
- Oh, I killed it! - Parry! Thrust!
- Oh, you gotta do it right after. Point and then boink.
It's a classic point then boink. - You should all-- oh, you do do that.
Oh! Okay. I'll give you one. I'll give you one lightsaber hit.
- All right, I got it now. - Yeah! All right, one down.
- Boink. Boink, Give me three stars, kid!
I learned how to play.
One, two... See? That's what I'm talking about?
- That was so crazy! (laughs) - Yeah, that was so good!
- The coolest part was when they come right up to you,
'cause I don't talk to many people face-to-face.
- It's incredible. Seeing Vader is unbelievable.
- (FBE) Okay, Tiya, how was your first ever VR experience?
- It was honestly amazing. I had no idea what to expect,
and it was incredible. - No, that's crazy.
That's very impressive, I have to say.
You kind of wonder where the future
of gaming is going. - I found it very fun.
- Yeah, it was fun. - I also found it fun watching Thomas.
- (FBE) And how did it feel compared to previous VR experiences,
having no wires? Was that freedom really nice?
- Yeah. You know what? For a while, I mean,
you couldn't even do the technology without wires.
- It was so freeing. - Oh, yeah. 'Cause
that's your real place. - It's finally to never be tevered--
tethered. - (Ben) Tevered to anybody.
- You know, it was nice to be able to spin around,
do some lightsaber moves. - I would never wanna
have to be, like sort of tethered to something,
'cause that sort of limits your freedom.
I mean, I totally forgot what the actual space I was in was.
Thankfully, there's a thing that keeps you from walking
into a wall, 'cause I certainly would do that otherwise.
- (FBE) Are you guys curious to see where the rest
of that Darth Vader experience takes you?
- Yes! I want to hopefully fight Darth Vader.
- I wanna see what other brain-busting puzzles
he's got for me. - (Ben chuckles)
- The lightsaber part was pretty cool.
You can see how you can get good at the game.
- (FBE) Was it easier or harder to be living in that world
than you thought it was going to be? - Much easier.
I was so nervous that I didn't know what I was doing,
and I had no previous VR experience. And you don't need it,
because it's just so immersive. - You know what else is really cool?
The sound system. That was very impressive as well.
Feels like you're there. - My interest is very piqued.
I am very intrigued. And I definitely wanna see more.
- Oculus Quest, get untethered!
- (FBE) Thank you so much for watching us experience
Vader Immortal on Oculus Quest. In addition to optimized versions
of fan favorites like Superhot, Quest also features new
and original games like Dead and Buried 2.
Oculus Quest is available now starting at 399.
Just click the link in the description below!
Okay, guys. You know the drill.
If you liked this episode, hit that Like button.
Subscribe for new shows every single day.
And let us know which reaction to Vader Immortal was your favorite
down in the comments. Okay. I have a very important task
to do for a certain Sith lord, and I reaaally don't wanna
get force choked, sooo... bye! May the force be with you always.