NVIDIA reveals details on some of the tech that will power the Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Millennium Falcon attraction

Posted: Thursday March 29, 2018 10:56am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Graphics technology company NVIDIA has revealed a few details about the upcoming Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Millennium Falcon attraction, set to open at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland Resort in 2019.

Millennium Falcon ride in Star Wars Galaxy's Edge

Walt Disney Imagineering has partnered with NVIDIA, ILMxLAB and Epic Games to develop new technology to drive the attraction.

Guests will enter the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon, with the on-screen visuals powered by a single BOXX chassis packed with eight high-end NVIDIA Quadro P6000 GPUs, connected via Quadro SLI synchronizing five projectors.

“We worked with NVIDIA engineers to use Quadro-specific features like Mosaic and cross-GPU reads to develop a renderer that had performance characteristics we needed,” says Bei Yang, technology studio executive at Disney Imagineering. “Using the eight connected GPUs allowed us to achieve performance unlike anything before.”

Yang and Principal Software Developer Eric Smolikowski dove into more details during their GTC talk, “Walt Disney Imagineering Technology Preview: Real-time Rendering of a Galaxy Far, Far Away,” and discussed how Disney Imagineering took advantage of the latest NVIDIA technology and the technical modifications they made for the Unreal Engine, which allows eight GPUs to render at unprecedented quality and speed.

You can see a sample of the on-screen visuals from the Millennium Falcon attraction at the NVIDIA website.

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danlb_20009 days ago

The one doing that panel does a Galactic Starcruiser podcast. https://heroesofthehalcyon.com/

Movielover9 days ago

Maybe it's Kevin going incognito... ;)

ChrisFL9 days ago

Does anyone know of another Martin Smith who is specifically a Star Wars fan? Since Smith is the most common last name

danlb_20009 days ago

Or that's just what you want us to think. ;)

HauntedPirate9 days ago

Anyone else do a double-take reading the last two names the first time? 😂😂😂

Unbanshee9 days ago

A simple Google search of the names reveals: - Peter Sciretta is a vlogger - Martin Smith is a Star Wars fan - Kristine Smith appears to be Martin's wife and a Star Wars fan Nothing about this seems to be official or anywhere near official

HauntedPirate9 days ago

Shoot, I’m still waiting for Bob to tweet that GE is open in DL. 😎

MisterPenguin9 days ago

If they're Disney employees revealing what they've been working on and what's coming... it can be pretty much considered official. But, of course, things can change even after public revelation. Still waiting on a name-change for DHS, Mr. Iger!!

marni197110 days ago

🤣🤣 I know I’m not going to San Diego this month. Or anytime soon !

Unbanshee10 days ago

This is a fan panel, right? Not official from Disney

mattpeto10 days ago

@marni1971!?

Haymarket2008Apr 18, 2026

Thank GOODNESS. I’ve been thinking about how this all lined up a few days ago. Thanks for the work!

Mike SApr 18, 2026

Yes that’s what I was referring to. The fact that both were done after the fact when they realized their mistake but with those they used real cover and not tarps with space in between.