ByteDance, the guardian firm of TikTok, is reportedly engaged on combined actuality goggles, The Data reviews. The in-development machine is designed to layer digital objects over your view of the actual world, and is meant to compete immediately with Meta’s upcoming combined actuality merchandise.
The goggles are being constructed by ByteDance’s digital actuality startup Pico, the creators of the Pico 4 VR headset. Pico’s previous merchandise have tried to match Meta’s Quest headsets when it comes to options, however these new goggles apparently symbolize a distinct method (albeit one nonetheless positioned as an alternative choice to Meta). Quite than a cumbersome headset, the goggles are presupposed to be small and light-weight, concerning the dimension of the Bigscreen Past VR headset, which weighs 0.28 kilos. Pico is preserving the machine light-weight by offloading many of the computing work to a puck that is related to the goggles over a wire. Meta’s prototype Orion AR glasses used a wi-fi puck for the same weight-saving goal when the corporate demoed them in November 2024.
Pico can also be reportedly engaged on constructing “specialised chips for the machine that can course of information from its sensors to attenuate the lag or latency between what a person sees in AR and their bodily actions,” The Data writes.
Loads of the main points are nonetheless up within the air, however the report notes that the ByteDance / Pico goggles must be similar to Meta’s subsequent combined actuality machine. Following the discharge of the Quest 3S, Meta reportedly postponed work on the Quest 4 in favor of creating light-weight combined actuality goggles, in keeping with UploadVR. The corporate has been publicly pushing AI wearables just like the newly launched Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, and it looks as if its subsequent Quest machine might be nearer to sensible glasses than a VR headset with controllers.
It isn’t recognized when ByteDance’s goggles will really be launched or the place they will be bought. Present Pico headsets aren’t bought within the US, and given the priority over ByteDance’s possession of TikTok, it appears unlikely the corporate would be capable of promote a combined actuality machine with out pushback.
