NBCUniversal Inks Deal With Meta to Bring Peacock, ‘The Office’ and More to Quest VR - Variety

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Meta, looking to spark broader involvement successful VR, announced a caller concern with NBCUniversal nether which the companies volition squad to bring media company’s Peacock streaming app and a scope of properties to the Meta Quest VR headsets. Meta announced the NBCU pact astatine Meta Connect 2022, its yearly developers conference, alongside different caller

The caller VR content, acceptable to travel to Quest successful 2023, volition see VR experiences for deed sitcom “The Office,” Universal Monsters, DreamWorks Animation, Blumhouse and Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights.

“Virtual world isn’t immoderate obscure hobby anymore,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the event, claiming that millions of radical are already utilizing VR to play games, interact with others and collaborate with coworkers.

Also astatine the Connect presentation, Meta is expected to denote the adjacent procreation of Quest VR headsets, which has been code-named Project Cambria. The higher-end VR and mixed-reality headset is expected to much people correspond the wearer’s expressions and assemblage connection with precocious eye- and facial-tracking features.

Details aren’t instantly disposable for what Peacock oregon the different NBCU experiences successful VR volition look similar connected the Meta Quest headset.

NBCU intelligibly is looking for each accidental it tin to propulsion immoderate upwind into Peacock’s sails. Last week CEO Jeff Shell claimed the media company’s streamer gained much than 2 cardinal paid subscribers successful the 3rd quarter, to apical 15 million. That came aft Peacock’s paid lawsuit basal was level successful Q2. Shell credited a beardown contented lineup, including Peacock’s reclaiming day-after-air rights to episodes of NBCU shows from Hulu.