Tiktok Owner Bytedance Is Reportedly Building Its Own Mixed Reality Goggles

ByteDance, nan genitor institution of TikTok, is reportedly moving connected mixed reality goggles, The Information reports. The in-development instrumentality is designed to furniture integer objects complete your position of nan existent world, and is expected to compete straight pinch Meta's upcoming mixed reality products.

The goggles are being built by ByteDance's virtual reality startup Pico, nan creators of nan Pico 4 VR headset. Pico's past products person attempted to lucifer Meta's Quest headsets successful position of features, but these caller goggles apparently correspond a different attack (albeit 1 still positioned arsenic an replacement to Meta). Rather than a bulky headset, nan goggles are expected to beryllium mini and light, astir nan size of nan Bigscreen Beyond VR headset, which weighs 0.28 pounds. Pico is keeping nan instrumentality lightweight by offloading astir of nan computing activity to a puck that's connected to nan goggles complete a wire. Meta's prototype Orion AR glasses utilized a wireless puck for a akin weight-saving intent erstwhile the institution demoed them successful November 2024.

Pico is besides reportedly moving connected building "specialized chips for nan instrumentality that will process information from its sensors to minimize nan lag aliases latency betwixt what a personification sees successful AR and their beingness movements," The Information writes.

Plenty of nan specifications are still up successful nan air, but nan study notes that nan ByteDance / Pico goggles should beryllium very akin to Meta's adjacent mixed reality device. Following nan merchandise of nan Quest 3S, Meta reportedly postponed activity connected nan Quest 4 successful favour of processing lightweight mixed reality goggles, according to UploadVR. The institution has been publically pushing AI wearables for illustration nan recently introduced Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, and it seems for illustration its adjacent Quest instrumentality will beryllium person to smart glasses than a VR headset pinch controllers.

It's not known erstwhile ByteDance's goggles will really beryllium released aliases wherever they'll beryllium sold. Current Pico headsets aren't sold successful nan US, and fixed nan interest complete ByteDance's ownership of TikTok, it seems improbable nan institution would beryllium capable to waste a mixed reality instrumentality without pushback.