Meta extends its partnership with the National Basketball Association to bring increasingly games to VR.
This week Meta announced that it has extended its partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to unconcentrated increasingly professional basketball games in VR on Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro headsets. On top of that, Meta is offering official NBA wardrobe for Meta avatars, permitting you to represent your team wideness the metaverse.
Starting this year, you’ll have the opportunity to watch professional NBA matches live in VR via Xtadium, a sports-based app for Quest headsets that allows you to host private watch parties in VR. Moving forward, you’ll moreover have the opportunity to subscribe to the NBA League Pass for plane increasingly content as well as purchase NBA/WNBA-licensed wardrobe for your Meta avatar, equal to Meta.
“Meta’s immersive VR technology is opening up new opportunities for sports fans to engage and interact with their favorite NBA teams,” said Meta Director of Sports Media and League Partnerships, Rob Shaw, in an official release.
“Fans will be worldly-wise to express their fandom by donning their favorite team’s gear on Avatars and enjoy increasingly live NBA games and wits NBA League Pass in a much increasingly social and immersive way. The NBA is unchangingly pushing us to innovate and leverage the latest technology to unshut the door to new fan experiences, and this installment of our partnership certainly achieves exactly that.”
“VR’s superpower is making it possible to immerse yourself in shared experiences with friends and fans from virtually the world, and we’re thrilled to bring these killer features to the NBA Arena and live games,” widow Meta Director of Metaverse Media Content, Sarah Malkin.
As previously mentioned, Quest owners will be worldly-wise to watch NBA games slantingly friends in VR via the Xtadium app. Meta plans on broacasting 52 live NBA games for self-ruling via Horizon Worlds, Meta’s social VR metaverse, over the undertow of the current season. This includes five 180-degree videos captured in 2880 resolution with commentation provided by idealism broadcasters. Equal to Meta, you’ll moreover have wangle to select WNBA, NBA G League, and NBA 2K League games over the undertow of the 2023 season.
Those interested can hop into NBA Arena in Horizon Worlds now to wangle game highlights, recaps, and various mini-games. Visit here for a full dispersal of the Horizon Worlds 2022/2023 NBA schedule. For increasingly information trammels out the official release here.
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