TikTok proprietor ByteDance is reportedly constructing its personal blended actuality goggles

ByteDance, the guardian 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 actual world, and is meant to compete immediately 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 unique strategy (albeit one nonetheless positioned as an alternative choice to Meta). Relatively than a cumbersome headset, the goggles are presupposed to be small and light-weight, concerning the dimension of the Bigscreen Beyond VR headset, which weighs 0.28 kilos. Pico is protecting 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 function when the company demoed them in November 2024.

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

Loads of the small print are nonetheless up within the air, however the report notes that the ByteDance / Pico goggles must 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 growing 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 shall be nearer to sensible glasses than a VR headset with controllers.

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