“It’s aspirational stuff, and as he riffs I notice the team shares an unexpected point of inspiration: Disneyland. “Walt Disney believed that he could take a fantasy world from cinema that he was making, and basically create a physical experience that you could walk into,” Gaeta says. “This is like a 2.0, supercharged version of the same philosophy.” It makes sense; when you zoom out, Gaeta’s grand vision resembles nothing so much as a digital Disneyland, and Walt Disney Imagineering even has a satellite team embedded at ILM for working on Disneyland attractions. “There’s a lot to be learned from those formats in the parks.””