I got hands on with the upcoming Pico 4 standalone VR headset during Gamescom. Now I can finally talk about my first …
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Pico 4 Hands On – VR Competition Heats Up!
I got hands on with the upcoming Pico 4 standalone VR headset during Gamescom. Now I can finally talk about my first …
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Getting points in the mainstream VR headset rivalry will be an extreme challenge for Pico.
No matter how silly it may sound – Meta does not only have an impressive budget to work with, but also, or – from my standpoint – most importantly: Meta has John Carmack on board. Ecosystems that flirt with APK/Android environments are in desperate need for some hardcore optimization techniques. Carmack is one of the best optimization-focused programmers in the world (that actively work nowadays), and has already proved his skills in the field, for example by allowing Quest 2 to run with 120Hz refresh rate. Therefore I highly doubt that successfully competing with Quest 2 will be a doable task for Pico Neo 4.
I personally think that focusing more on PC connectivity on the budget would make Neo 4 a dangerous competitor for Meta. Instead, Pico simply tries to step in with a hardware that's a little bit improved Quest 2, but not so impressive with the remaining, but still crucial, technical aspects.
The girl dancing at 7:51 LOL !
The USA gets most stuff first, so cant say i am sad for them, gives them a chance to feel what its like for us Europeans once in a while.
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Yeah looks fantastic but like you mentioned.. games??
Until I personally try this myself, I don't mind using this mainly for PCVR. My Quest 2 just serves good enough for portable VR gaming.
BE CAREFUL PEOPLE THERE IS A GUY PRETENDING TO BE MIKE AND GIVING AWAY FAKE PRICES.ASKING YOU TO PAY FOR THE SHIPPING COSTS DO NOT FALL FOR IT!
Preordered yesterday.
I will just sideload games into it and use it for PCVR as well.
Quest 2 was uncomfortable, front heavy, with poor lenses.
Pico 4 seems like THE headset for me!
Perfect if you want more data shared without consent than Facebook does, let’s face it … we’ll never get what we’re after but will always be given what could have been better, only slower
I thought to place battery on the back years ago, strange someone did it just now. 😅😁
Choose to send my data to Facebook or the Chinese government 🤔
True that meta headset not sold in asia. but those headset were imported by resellers. It's selling a lot here in Thailand.
Quest 2 was a no go for me because of a mandatory facebook account requirement. Will pico have the same requirement i wonder now
I am not very familiar with the internal hardware side of things so I have a question for those who are. How does the XR2 processor hold up to this day? I know that it has been quiet a while since it's release and I feel like it might cause bottlenecks for the rest of the hardware.
Would be interesting to see if there is adoption by the flight simulator community, as that is my area of interest. The Quest 2 is already quite awesome and wireless AirLink works great. So this needs to be a serious step-up on Quest 2 to justify more money spent.
The FOV specs are still disappointing, was hoping for a bigger jump with these new gens.
I gotta say, it looks like Pico waited to see how third party companies handled improving the Quest 2 and just applied it to their headset by default. And for just a little more than the quest 2, I think a whole lot of people will be choosing this over the Quest 2 now.
if i didnt spend 86 trillion dollars on the quest store then i would definitely look into the pico 4
why can't there be a software that mimics the inputs and motions of all vr headsets so all games works on all headsets?
In the us can't get one of those ) i rather get the quest 2 pro .
I absolutely hate the God rays on the Quest 2, so this pancake lens sounds great. While higher resolution sounds good, it also means you'll need better hardware to push those extra pixels. I think those tracking rings are fugly, but I like that they're designed not to bump each other, which happens all the time on Quest 2 when reloading guns.
Might be the next HMD I get👀
Honestly a vr headset could be bright pink and I wouldn’t car cuz you can reven see it when your using it
Honestly a vr headset could be bright pink and I wouldn’t car cuz you can reven see it when your using it
No hand tracking still on pico3 pro link or pico4?
this thing is looking really good i may upgrade to this
I wouldn't buy a VR headset from a Chinese company. I'd stick to American brands.
Owners of TikTok?! oh boy……..
Im really interested however those huge pancake lenses will make it difficult to get prescription lens inserts for. hope its comfortable wearing glasses with it
Compelling headset for a wireless PCVR unit.
8:40 The camera angle/background has got to be one of the best on YouTube it looks so good
They've implemented some genuine innovation on the hardware side. Very nice.
They need to sell them in the USA though, it's by far the biggest market – they're going to struggle to turn a profit targeting Europe and Asia, where there are so many native languages that indie developers will almost completely overlook their entire eco system simply due to the cost and complexity of language localisation. VR market is already too small without that additional hurdle to overcome.
This means software library will be small, though high quality, but consumers will shelve their units even faster than they already do in US with Quests.
Long term that's very bad for Pico.
Get these units into the USA though, and you double the market size and half the complexity of development. Suddenly you'll see a genuine competitor for Meta.
And that would be awesome.
It really looks impressive,I might see how well it’s doing a couple of months into next year and maybe get one,I got psvr when that came out then got quest 2 when that came out and I’ve got 207 games for it so far,we shall see and I might treat myself 🤪
Will pico have an app like Immersed for displaying multiple monitors from your desktop?
I mean, if its launching in EU, wouldn't it still be just as easy to purchase and ship to north america?
My only question Is gorilla tag Going to be on there If it's not I'm just gonna buy a quest 2
for me, I've been investing in primarily a steam vr library, so having a dongle for seem less wireless connectivity is VERY enticing 🤔
It is strange to me why they are not in the US. Why is that?
I've bought quite a few games on the Quest platform: will I be able to play them on the Pico 4?
What's the price?
… and still no expandable flashcard memory…..
How long does the Battery last when running the PCVR Stream?
Glad for the completion but I ain't supporting anything coming from tik tok the biggest source of cancerous content on the Internet , some of the worst stuff I've ever seen , shame we need a company that isn't just utter garbage working on standalone vr they would win everything right now , people love quest but hate Facebook , people will like the Pico but will disspise tik tok we need something different
Oh this is the first time I’ve heard that pico is owned by bytedance… hmm that changes how excited I can feel about this headset quite a bit :/
Wow! Tbh I'm really sceptical of the software side considering it's proven TikTok grabs data anyhow they possibly can. But the headset itself looks like a real banger and I'm highly considering buying one. Can't wait for your hands on!
Wake me when we've moved beyond the XR2 soc, small FOV, and LCD screens…
Too many headsets, not enough games