- TikTok proprietor ByteDance is reportedly constructing a mixed-reality headset. That will put it in competitors with Meta and Apple. It’s unclear whether or not the headset will likely be launched within the U.S. and, if that’s the case, when or what it could price.
The marketplace for mixed-reality headsets has been decidedly, nicely, combined to this point, however ByteDance seemingly thinks there’s room for development.
The Info reviews a subsidiary of the TikTok proprietor is engaged on a mixed-reality system that may layer objects over your actual world view. Pico, which made the Pico 4 VR headset, is reportedly overseeing the creation of the goggles, which might compete with the Meta Quest and, to a lesser extent, Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Not like Apple (and present Quest merchandise), the Pico goggles are mentioned to be small and light-weight, however aren’t blended into style gadgets, like Meta’s tie-in with Ray Ban and Oakley proprietor EssilorLuxottica or Snap’s AI Spectacles.
ByteDance and Pico are constructing “specialised chips for the system that may course of knowledge from its sensors to reduce the lag or latency between what a person sees in AR and their bodily actions,” in accordance with The Info. However many different particulars are nonetheless unknown.
Pricing hasn’t been mentioned and it’s nonetheless unsure if ByteDance will goal the U.S. market with these goggles, assuming they’re in the end launched. Pico’s different headsets are usually not offered in North America and ByteDance and the Trump administration have an uneasy relationship at greatest. TikTok has already been banned by the U.S. authorities, however Trump has paused the enforcement of that ban a number of occasions, hoping to safe a U.S. purchaser for the social community.
Over two weeks in the past, Trump mentioned he had discovered a bunch of “very rich individuals” to purchase TikTok, however has not but revealed who they’re (regardless of promising to take action). ByteDance has been immune to promoting TikTok and has not made any public statements about Trump’s declare.
