Rogue One’s best visual effects happened while the camera was rolling

When Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hit theaters in 2016, a lot of the visual effects conversation centered on how the filmmakers digitally re-created actors Peter Cushing and Carrie Fisher to reprise the roles they played in the 1977 original. While those effects are striking, there’s also another quiet revolution going on in visual effects, one that’s often just out of view.
That’s the way evolving technologies like virtual reality, augmented reality, and even interactive light