Meta partners with NBCUniversal to bring you into “The Office” - TechCrunch

We already cognize that Meta wants america to spell to the office successful in virtual world — but what astir The Office?

As portion of a multi-year concern with NBCUniversal, NBCUniversal’s streaming app Peacock is coming to the Meta Quest virtual world headset.

“Starting adjacent year, Meta and NBCU volition co-create experiences astir The Office, Universal Monsters, DreamWorks, Blumhouse, Halloween Horror Nights and truthful overmuch more,” said Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of Metaverse, astatine the Meta Connect event. Fans tin prosecute with this contented done the societal VR app Horizon Worlds, arsenic good arsenic astatine Universal Studios taxable parks successful existent life.

This concern could assistance Meta capitalize astir existing fandoms to get them to bargain VR headsets, but Meta didn’t supply overmuch item astir what these VR experiences volition entail. A Halloween Horror Nights-themed acquisition could capitalize connected VR’s unsocial quality to marque fearfulness adjacent much horrifying (I mean, it is immersive). And, since DreamWorks is successful the premix here, whitethorn we suggest a Shrek game?