Meta Is Building a Smart TV In VR (lowpass.cc)
- Reference: 0179809872
- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/215216/meta-is-building-a-smart-tv-in-vr
- Source link: https://www.lowpass.cc/p/meta-horizon-tv-app-smart-tv-ui
> Except Horizon TV isn't running on a TV or streaming stick, but on the company's Meta Quest headsets. Unveiled at Meta Connect last month, the app is a big part of Meta's push to attract older, less gaming-focused audiences to VR -- a push that also includes a partnership with James Cameron, and investments into sports, and other types of leanback entertainment content.
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> Re-creating the smart TV experience in virtual reality also represents a monetization opportunity for Meta, which has for some time now tried to figure out how to bring advertising to VR. However, the approach also means that Meta is inheriting some of the very problems smart TV platform operators have struggled with for a long time. And if consumers do warm up to watching more content with their headsets, they're bound to realize that even in VR, you can't escape the collateral damage of the streaming wars.
[1] https://www.meta.com/experiences/tv/1931356740318898/
[2] https://www.lowpass.cc/p/meta-horizon-tv-app-smart-tv-ui
VR so you can watch TV? (Score:2)
I don't have a TV in real life. Why would I watch a TV in VR.
I think Zuck needs to bite the bullet like OpenAI's Altman did. AI and VR are the Ultimate PaaS(Porn as a Service) tools.
Once AI is doing porn, Zuck's VR and VR glasses have a killer product.
Zuck your VR glasses taking pictures of people in real life and OpenAI stripping them down and loading them into VR environments
Yea lots of monetization value here in AI and VR for everybody. What could go wrong.
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I don't have a TV in real life.
Nobody else on the internet has a TV, either. And BTW I just came back from the gym, and oh, I'm also a vegan.
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> I don't have a TV in real life.
Somehow I doubt you're the target market for anything which is aimed at the general population.
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> I don't have a TV in real life. Why would I watch a TV in VR.
Had a program for the CV1 that emulated a large movie screen in VR. It was sort of cool. People have weird ideas of putting on a HMD and watching little floating TV screens. It is more like sitting in a theater.
On the go if you had a portable HMD I can see people using this sort of gadget. The whole Facebook Smart TV ads thing is lame.
This might work out... (Score:2)
I could see having a "movie theater" app for the 3d headset. You put it on and bam! you are now sitting in a movie theater watching a big screen. Add your headphones and you've got surround sound. Someone might go for it.
Definitely not for me but I'm sure someone more into gadgets would be into this. I'd rather not wear a headset for any real amount of time. I'll just buy a larger monitor that up more of my field of view, though I haven't bothered with that either. I think I might be rocking a 24" monitor.
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I prefer watching stuff in my headset. (Score:2)
Yes, I am a dweeb! Anyways, at least late at night. It's a great way to watch stuff and not disturb your spouse or others from bed.
I bought a few of of those 20 dollar real time video encoders( hdmi and usb c based), just so I could stream my ROKU right into my Meta Quest 3, and other times my Steam Deck. I much prefer using the Q3 as a Steam Deck display.
It's nice to have a screen that can be as big as your wall, or an iMax depending on the app being viewed, and you can choose the environment.
Such a technological breakthrough (Score:1)
Such a technological breakthrough. They can display things on a ... display
They are doing it wrong (Score:2)
Nowadays it should be:
* AI generated smart TV in VR
or
* smart TV in AI generated VR
or
* smart TV in VR displaying AI generated content
or, even more exciting (contains more AI acronyms)
* AI generated movie about a person entering VR to watch smart TV (potentially a movie about AI generated movie about a person ...)
That is soooo innovative! (Score:2)
Not. Seriously. Hooking up some containers. How impressive.