UFC partners with Meta for live and on-demand events in VR on Fight Pass - MMA Fighting

It would look that Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t astatine UFC Vegas 61 strictly to instrumentality successful the fights.

Zuckerberg grabbed headlines earlier this period erstwhile the UFC unopen down the Apex for the nationalist astatine UFC Vegas 61, giving the Facebook tsar and his woman a backstage viewing of the event. At the time, the determination stirred immoderate controversy, but present we cognize wherefore it happened.

On Thursday, the UFC announced a concern with Zuckerberg’s institution Meta, offering unrecorded and on-demand MMA events done Meta’s Horizon’s Worlds app for usage connected their Meta Quest 2 headset.

LFA 144, which takes spot connected Friday connected Fight Pass, is acceptable to beryllium the archetypal lawsuit to instrumentality portion successful this caller partnership, which volition beryllium produced successful VR180, giving users a 180-degree panorama of the event. The merchandise besides states that users volition beryllium capable to “see and talk with different fans successful existent time” and that Fight Pass volition connection akin VR experiences with “select combat sports events successful the future.”

“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.”

This announcement comes conscionable days aft Meta announced their caller Meta Quest Pro headset, which it called “the archetypal successful a caller enactment of precocious headsets built to grow the possibilities of virtual and mixed reality.” The caller headset volition retail astatine $1,499.99.

LFA 144 takes spot Friday successful Sioux Falls, S.D., and is headlined by bantamweight rubric combat betwixt Muin Gafurov and Diego Silva.