Disney's Star Wars Land will be a great multiplayer game thanks to a mobile application

The new Star Wars-themed Disney Parks will include a unique augmented reality experience powered by a park-integrated mobile app. New details on the integration of the application have been announced today at the Star Wars Celebration fans convention in Chicago. The app will apparently transform Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Anaheim, California, and Orlando, Florida into immersive interactive digital experiences.

The application, called Play Disney Parks, has been available for some time for iOS and Android devices. Originally, it was an event that guests could do when they were waiting online for rides or character encounters with brackets such as player progression and items of collection.

Once in Galaxy's Edge, the application will have more features than ever before.

Members of the Walt Disney Imagineering and LucasFilm team, including Doug Chang, Vice President and Executive Creative Director, were on hand to add details to this highly secretive land. Asa Kalama, creative director of Walt Disney Imagineering, took the lead in the detailed description of the new feature of the app for the first time.

Previously described by Entertainment Weekly, the app will allow guests to "hack", "scan", "translate" and "tune in" at certain locations on the Galaxy's Edge. Guests will be able to connect with droids and other physical elements all around the park, collecting fragments of the story as they go.

These are not just Easter eggs, however. According to Disney, the app will contribute to a light game of alternative reality played throughout the park. The actions of the guests will reverse elements of the park between the Resistance check and the First Order for a while before the winner is declared and the game is restarted.

This is not the first time that Disney has been trying to incorporate a high-tech interactive experience into its theme parks. A previous attempt was Trading card game Sorcerers of the magic kingdom, a collectible card game that can be played for free, but only works in the parks.

Players use a physical map to discover secret portals scattered throughout the magical realm. Once activated, the hidden cameras are able to read data encoded on trading cards, allowing players to cast spells.