ByteDance,, TikTok’s guardian firm, is reportedly engaged on combined actuality goggles that would probably go toe-to-toe with Meta within the digital/augmented actuality wearable area. The group behind the corporate’s Pico 4 VR headset is reportedly creating a smaller, lighter wearable for combined actuality. It is mentioned to be related in its characteristic set to Meta’s upcoming AR sensible glasses.
ByteDance’s goggles are rumored to be concerning the dimension of BigScreen Past’s VR goggles, which weigh about 100 grams. Like Meta’s Orion prototype, the computational heavy-lifting shall be primarily finished in a separate puck. Not like the Orion, the additional machine will connect to the goggles through a wire.
There’s no phrase but on whether or not the machine shall be launched below the Pico model, and even when it is going to launch. However a trickier query could possibly be the place it will likely be offered—a launch in China appears sure, however given the contentious relationship between the U.S. authorities and TikTok, it is exhausting to think about it will likely be a easy course of for ByteDance to launch {hardware} within the U.S. any time quickly.
ByteDance has reportedly agreed to divest its U.S. TikTok operations, as mandated by federal legislation to keep away from a nationwide ban, and can be mentioned to be engaged on an America-specific model of the TikTok app. Possibly, as soon as the mud settles and every little thing cools down, we’ll see ByteDance-branded XR headsets on U.S. cabinets subsequent to these from Metas.
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In the meantime, for a deeper dive into Meta’s plans, I’ve rounded up the rumors swirling round Zuckerberg’s subsequent VR/AR gadgets.
