Meta brings UFC Fight Pass to virtual reality - MIXED Reality News

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Meta and the UFC are entering into a practice that volition let mixed martial arts to beryllium experienced successful virtual world successful the aboriginal via “Fight Pass”.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the world’s largest organizer of mixed martial arts. MMA mixes assorted techniques from antithetic combat sports – specified arsenic boxing, judo, taekwondo, muay thai, oregon karate – and is highly popular.

The UFC’s main events broadcast arsenic pay-per-view events and regularly publication income successful the millions. Soon, martial arts fans volition beryllium capable to acquisition the spectacle successful virtual reality.

UFC Fight Pass comes to Horizon Worlds

Recently, UFC and Meta announced a concern to bring the organization’s events to virtual reality. As a result, the subscription work UFC Fight Pass – done which fans entree unrecorded MMA shows – volition beryllium disposable successful Meta’s proto-metaverse Horizon Worlds.

The fights volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded determination arsenic 180-degree videos and past disposable arsenic on-demand replays for a acceptable play of time. With “LFA 144,” the archetypal unrecorded broadcast took spot connected Oct. 14 and tin beryllium replayed from Oct. 23-27. The accumulation institution YBVR prepares the shows for VR broadcast.

UFC brag considered a VR fan

UFC President Dana White, who himself comes from a boxing background, has been progressive with virtual world for immoderate time. On his Instagram channel, the UFC brag recommends a VR crippled for boxing training. For retired boxers similar him, helium says, Thrill of the Fight is simply a existent workout. Misha Cirkunov besides uses VR boxing.

The progressive MMA combatant prepares for fights successful virtual world utilizing Creed: Rise to Glory. However, Cirkunov has a antithetic focus:

“In training, you tin bushed anyone, but however to execute nether each those lights and successful beforehand of each those radical … that’s what I’ve been moving on. I simulated it with a instrumentality astatine home,” Cirkunov explains. To get a grip connected his signifier fright, helium said, helium trained successful VR headset. “I enactment connected this helmet and past I got into a title boxing ring, and present nary of that itches maine anymore.”

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