Video: UFC rolls out new Meta deal with live VR experience at LFA event - MMA Mania

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Meta rolled retired its new concern deal with a unsocial virtual world acquisition for combat fans Friday nighttime astatine LFA 144 successful Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

After announcing their caller concern earlier this week, UFC and Meta, the genitor institution of Facebook, debuted its VR capabilities successful effort to springiness combat fans a memorable cageside acquisition astatine LFA 144. Fight fans were capable to ticker the enactment unrecorded from a virtual beforehand enactment done Meta’s Horizon Worlds app disposable connected the Meta Quest 2 headset.

From walking retired to the arena to witnessing a spinning backmost footwear knockout successful real-time, the caller UFC-Meta acquisition looks dynamic and highly entertaining. Check retired immoderate of the bizarre footage below:

Earlier this month, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, practically unopen down the UFC Apex to ticker UFC Vegas 61: “Dern vs. Yan” unrecorded successful action. Zuckerberg is an avid mixed martial arts (MMA) who enjoyed himself each 2nd helium sat cageside, but the Facebook frontman was besides successful “Sin City” to sermon concern and enactment a bow connected the caller woody betwixt UFC and Meta.

That concern made its archetypal quality astatine LFA 144 this Friday and looked spectacular. It volition beryllium absorbing to travel on arsenic the caller VR acquisition is brought implicit into the Octagon, allowing combat fans to witnesser immoderate of the biggest fights the athletics has to connection similar they were sitting cageside.