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- Unity and Meta extended their VR partnership, with Unity continuing to power many top-selling VR games on Meta's platform. This collaboration aims to enhance support for VR developers, making it easier to create high-quality experiences for Meta's VR devices. The extension signals continued investment and growth in the VR gaming sector, with a mildly positive impact on related tech stocks.
Unity Technologies (U) and Meta announced an extended multi-year platform support and enterprise agreement to continue their collaboration in virtual reality development.
The partnership extension maintains Unity’s support for Meta’s VR platform, according to a press release statement from the companies. Unity provides the game engine that powers what the companies describe as the majority of top-selling VR games on Meta’s platform.
"Meta is the world’s leading VR platform, and we’re proud that Unity powers the majority of its top-selling VR games," said Alex Blum, Chief Operating Officer at Unity. "By pairing Meta’s hardware and OS leadership with Unity’s role as the assembly point for interactive content creation, we’re making VR accessible to more developers so they can develop, deploy, and grow their games and business applications on Meta’s VR devices."
Ryan Cairns, Vice President of Virtual Reality at Meta, stated that Unity serves as a critical partner across multiple Meta initiatives, including the company’s investment in the VR developer community. "By extending our long-standing partnership, we’re making it easier for developers to bring high-quality, performant experiences to the millions of people who use Meta’s VR devices," Cairns said.
The agreement aims to provide enhanced support for VR developers creating applications and games for Meta’s VR platform. Unity offers development tools for games and interactive experiences across mobile, PC, console, and extended reality platforms.
The companies did not disclose financial terms or specific duration of the extended partnership agreement.