Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s UFC card set the stage for Metaverse VR events - Bloody Elbow

The different footwear has yet dropped successful the enigma of conscionable what the hellhole the UFC was reasoning erstwhile they closed the doors of their Apex installation to media and the nationalist for UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan earlier this October.

The basal motivations down the determination became wide connected the nighttime of the lawsuit itself, when—despite dense denials successful the days prior—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spotted sitting cageside arsenic 1 of a precise prime fewer radical successful attendance. Whether 1 of the world’s richest men had, successful fact, rented retired the full lawsuit similar a it was a laser-tag day enactment oregon the UFC had simply decided to acquisition him with sole occupancy was purely pedantic. Whatever the case, the Endeavor-owned combat promotion had fixed itself implicit to 1 precocious illustration guest.

Now we cognize why.

The UFC announced connected Thursday, October 13th, that they person officially partnered with Zuckerberg’s Meta institution to present on-demand VR MMA events. In the adjacent aboriginal fans volition beryllium capable to entree VR feeds of MMA cards connected the Fight Pass level (h/t MMA Fighting).

“We are excited to connection an unprecedented level of engagement for Fight Pass subscribers and MMA fans astir the satellite by producing a unrecorded MMA lawsuit successful virtual reality,” Crowley Sullivan, Fight Pass vice president and wide manager is quoted arsenic saying. “With Meta providing the VR level and YBVR lending their accumulation expertise, we’re assured this volition beryllium a large acquisition for combat fans.”

The archetypal lawsuit to beryllium hosted via this caller level volition beryllium LFA 144: Gafurov vs. Silva. Which tin beryllium accessed done the Meta Horizon Worlds app. That paper takes spot this Friday, October 14th, successful Sioux Falls, SD. Fans who motion up for the virtual world provender volition seemingly get entree to a 180 grade panorama presumption of the combat fight card, and the quality to spot and chat with different VR fans live. No connection yet connected what pricing volition look similar for aboriginal VR events.

The determination has seemingly been a semipermanent extremity of Dana White’s. As acold backmost arsenic February, the UFC President was teasing his hopes for bringing the UFC to virtual world sometime successful the adjacent future.

“We’re looking to bash a combat successful the Metaverse,” White enthused. “We’ve been moving connected it for a while. It’ll beryllium a unrecorded fight, an existent combat that takes spot wrong the metaverse.”

“It’d beryllium kids astatine home, you enactment connected your (goggles) and you tin (get) up and spell locomotion around. We’re inactive moving it out, but yeah, it’ll beryllium soon. We’ll beryllium doing a combat successful the metaverse. It’ll beryllium a existent fight.”