Meta & NBCUniversal Colab Bringing The Office, Blumhouse & More To VR - Screen Rant

Meta has announced a multi-year concern with media elephantine NBCUniversal to bring smash-hit TV shows similar The Office to the metaverse.

At its Meta Connect lawsuit connected Tuesday, the genitor institution of Facebook and Instagram announced a multi-year concern with NBCUniversal that volition bring aggregate smash-hit TV shows to the metaverse. In caller years, Meta has been investing a batch of clip and vigor successful the metaverse adjacent though societal media platforms similar Facebook and Instagram stay its breadstuff and butter. To amended bespeak its latest fascination and to divert the expanding antagonistic publicity pursuing aggregate scandals, the institution besides changed its sanction from Facebook to Meta past year.

Meta has besides poured billions of dollars into virtual reality-related probe recently, with the company's Reality Labs portion reportedly losing billions implicit the past mates of years trying to bring the metaverse to life. However, undaunted by the mainstream consumer's deficiency of enthusiasm astir the metaverse, Meta is going up with its planned VR announcements, launching the Meta Quest Pro mixed world headset astatine today's lawsuit for a whopping $1,500. The device, which had long been rumored arsenic Project Cambria, volition deed shelves connected Oct. 25, with Meta claiming that it volition connection users a mode to interact with virtual objects overlaid onto a afloat presumption of the existent satellite astir them.

As portion of Meta's multi-year woody with NBCUniversal, respective of the latter's fashionable TV shows and movies volition present deed VR. The astir notable among them is The Office, which chronicles the bizarre goings-on successful the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Besides The Office, users volition besides beryllium capable to acquisition a batch of further contented successful VR, including shows and movies from Universal Monsters, DreamWorks, Blumhouse, Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights, and more. In addition, NBCUniversal's streaming app Peacock volition besides beryllium disposable connected the Meta Quest VR headset arsenic portion of the deal.

The Office Coming To Horizon Worlds

According to Meta's vice president of the metaverse, Vishal Shah, fans tin acquisition the contented mentioned supra within Horizon Worlds not lone from the comfortableness of their location but besides astatine Universal Studios taxable parks. The caller experiences volition travel to the metaverse successful 2023, but the institution did not springiness a much circumstantial timeframe.

It's not instantly wide however Meta plans to capitalize connected the popularity of the NBCUniversal shows, but the institution volition apt beryllium hoping that it volition help initiate much radical to the metaverse, if lone to cheque retired the technology. The institution could besides usage the shows to merchantability a fewer much of its VR headsets, truthful it volition beryllium absorbing to spot however the Meta-NBCUniversal concern works successful the agelong run.

Source: Oculus

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