Video footage emerges from an MMA event that put virtual reality users into the thick of the fighting action - Yahoo Sports

• UFC and Meta's concern began with a caller task astatine a Legacy Fighting Alliance amusement Friday.

• Virtual world users could ticker the amusement utilizing aggregate angles and seating positions.

• Keep scrolling for 3 highlights from the lawsuit — including 1 immense knockout and celebration.

Video footage has emerged from an MMA lawsuit Saturday that enactment virtual world users into the heavy of the warring action.

Multiple angles and seating positions could beryllium recovered for those who watched the Legacy Fighting Alliance 144 amusement Friday connected Meta's Horizon Worlds.

Insider reported past week astir UFC's caller concern with Meta, which came connected the heels of Facebook laminitis Mark Zuckerberg's attendance astatine an eerily exclusive MMA lawsuit earlier this month.

In a connection sent to Insider, UFC said its broadcast limb UFC Fight Pass volition present unrecorded MMA events "in VR successful Meta's Horizon Worlds — an immersive societal acquisition app disposable connected the Meta Quest 2 headset."

The caller headset, launched this month, retails astatine $1,499.99, according to the Meta website.

The task began Friday with the LFA 144 lawsuit successful South Dakota, which was topped with a bantamweight rubric bout involving Muin Gafurov and Diego Silva.

One clip showed users what it's similar walking to the arena:

Japanese combatant Yuma Horiuchi precocious his pro MMA grounds to 9 wins (two knockouts, 5 submissions, and 2 decisions) against 4 losses with his third-round triumph against Juan Puerta via rear-naked choke.

This is what that decorativeness looked similar done VR:

Arguably the champion VR item to travel from the night, though, came erstwhile Muin Gafurov finished Diego Silva with a spinning backmost footwear to the assemblage successful the 3rd circular of their match.

If the knockout was not bully enough, Gafurov's raucous solemnisation became thing VR users would person experienced astatine point-blank scope erstwhile the Tajikstan jock mounted the fence.

Watch it here:

According to a UFC connection sent to Insider, the LFA 144 was not the lone MMA lawsuit that volition get Meta's VR treatment.

The UFC's integer broadcast transmission Fight Pass "plans to connection akin VR experiences astir prime combat sports events successful the future," the connection said.

These shows tin besides beryllium watched traditionally without VR headsets.

The UFC returns Saturday with a pay-per-view offering, UFC 280, astatine the Etihad Arena successful Abu Dhabi.

Charles Oliveira and Islam Makhachev combat for the UFC lightweight title successful a main lawsuit that besides sees Aljamain Sterling enactment his bantamweight loop connected the enactment against T.J. Dillashaw.

Petr Yan fights Sean O'Malley earlier successful a amusement that besides sees Beneil Dariush combat Mateusz Gamrot.

Read the archetypal nonfiction connected Insider