Based on its founder, REK will likely be a VR robotic preventing recreation the place the highest gamers are flown out to pilot humanoid robots in fights at bodily occasions.
REK comes from XR entrepreneur Cix Liv, who beforehand cofounded the VR livestreaming device LIV and the VR health tracker YUR. Cix had beforehand envisioned REK as a blended actuality preventing recreation in 2022, however canceled that concept in 2023 citing low viewers curiosity in addition to the technical and sensible points inherent in utilizing headsets outdoor.
Cix says the digital robots within the REK VR recreation, which can “possible” be free to play, may have the identical motion mechanics as the true robots, such that gamers can instantly switch their expertise to the true fights.
The highest gamers of the VR recreation will likely be flown out to a bodily location to pilot robots on the bodily fights, utilizing a tethered PC VR headset linked to a PC on the identical native community because the robots, to attenuate latency.
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Final yr, Cix stated he was making a fitness-focused sensible glove, and finally a fitness-focused headset, below the model Vi, however that is now not taking place. Cix tells UploadVR that he could not elevate sufficient cash, although nonetheless hopes to make his personal headset “in some unspecified time in the future” to regulate the REK robots.
Cix can also be an outspoken critic of Meta, ostensibly pushed by the corporate not supporting background providers on Quest, a functionality he wanted to deliver his YUR health tracker to the platform. Cix has additionally repeatedly claimed that Meta stole his YUR thought with the introduction of Oculus Transfer, the health monitoring characteristic which Meta paradoxically discontinued final month.
Cix’s criticism of Meta has verged into the realm of misinformation, although. In November he publicly claimed that Meta was set to conduct main layoffs within the VR part of its Actuality Labs division in Q1 2025, and that Meta was outsourcing Quest headset design to China, with the {hardware} group “gone”. Q1 has now handed, and these claimed layoffs didn’t occur, whereas Meta’s CTO publicly and instantly denied the claims of outsourcing headset design.
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REK plans to launch the VR recreation this yr, and conduct the primary bodily robotic fights later this yr too.
