{"id":267366,"date":"2025-07-16T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267366\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:28:09","slug":"bytedance-tiktoks-parent-company-might-be-developing-mixed-reality-goggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267366\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance, TikTok’s Parent Company, Might Be Developing Mixed Reality Goggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByteDance,, TikTok’s parent company, is reportedly<\/a> working on mixed reality goggles that could potentially go toe-to-toe with Meta in the virtual\/augmented reality wearable space. The team behind the company’s Pico 4<\/a> VR headset is reportedly developing a smaller, lighter wearable for mixed reality. It’s said to be similar in its feature set to Meta’s upcoming AR smart glasses<\/a>. <\/p>\n

ByteDance’s goggles are rumored to be about the size of BigScreen Beyond’s VR goggles<\/a>, which weigh about 100 grams. Like Meta’s Orion prototype, the computational heavy-lifting will be mainly done in a separate puck. Unlike the Orion, the extra device will attach to the goggles via a wire.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no word yet on whether the device will be released under the Pico brand, or even when it will launch. But a trickier question could be where it will be sold\u2014a release in China seems certain, but given the contentious relationship between the U.S. government and TikTok<\/a>, it’s hard to imagine it will be a smooth process for ByteDance to release hardware in the U.S. any time soon.<\/p>\n

ByteDance has reportedly agreed to divest its U.S. TikTok operations<\/a>, as mandated by federal law to avoid a nationwide ban, and is also said to be working on an America-specific version of the TikTok app. Maybe, once the dust settles and everything cools down, we\u2019ll see ByteDance-branded XR headsets on U.S. shelves next to those from Metas.<\/p>\n

What do you think so far?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, for a deeper dive into Meta’s plans, I’ve rounded up the rumors swirling around Zuckerberg’s next VR\/AR devices<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByteDance,, TikTok’s parent company, is reportedly working on mixed reality goggles that could potentially go toe-to-toe with Meta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-267366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114864567420502692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}