TikTok proprietor ByteDance is reportedly constructing its personal blended actuality goggles

ByteDance, the mother or father firm of TikTok, is reportedly engaged on blended actuality goggles, The Information reports. The in-development system is designed to layer digital objects over your view of the true world, and is meant to compete straight with Meta’s upcoming blended actuality merchandise.

The goggles are being constructed by ByteDance’s digital actuality startup Pico, the creators of the Pico 4 VR headset. Pico’s previous merchandise have tried to match Meta’s Quest headsets by way of options, however these new goggles apparently signify a distinct method (albeit one nonetheless positioned as a substitute for Meta). Relatively than a cumbersome headset, the goggles are presupposed to be small and light-weight, in regards to the measurement of the Bigscreen Beyond VR headset, which weighs 0.28 kilos. Pico is holding the system light-weight by offloading many of the computing work to a puck that is linked to the goggles over a wire. Meta’s prototype Orion AR glasses used a wi-fi puck for the same weight-saving objective when the company demoed them in November 2024.

Pico can also be reportedly engaged on constructing “specialised chips for the system that may course of knowledge from its sensors to reduce the lag or latency between what a consumer sees in AR and their bodily actions,” The Info writes.

Loads of the main points are nonetheless up within the air, however the report notes that the ByteDance / Pico goggles ought to be similar to Meta’s subsequent blended actuality system. Following the discharge of the Quest 3S, Meta reportedly postponed work on the Quest 4 in favor of creating light-weight blended actuality goggles, according to UploadVR. The corporate has been publicly pushing AI wearables just like the newly launched Oakley Meta HSTN glasses, and it looks as if its subsequent Quest system will probably be nearer to good glasses than a VR headset with controllers.

It is not identified when ByteDance’s goggles will truly be launched or the place they’re going to be offered. Present Pico headsets aren’t offered within the US, and given the priority over ByteDance’s ownership of TikTok, it appears unlikely the corporate would be capable of promote a blended actuality system with out pushback.