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"Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope,” pleads a pale, flickering image of Princess Leia, projected from the faithful droid R2-D2. In an iconic scene from the first Star Wars film (1977), heroes Kenobi and Luke Skywalker are transfixed by the three-dimensional display, which materializes before them as if a miniature Leia were present in the room.