Tech company ByteDance announces the Pico 4, this new addition to the Pico headset line can be ordered from October 18th and will cost $420 USD. This headset is the successor to the Pico Neo 3 Link that released earlier this year.
For the second time this year Pico Interactive announces a new VR-headset. This headset will be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2-soc. The display is a 2,56″ LCD screen with a resolution of 2160×2160 per eye. The maximum refresh rate is 90Hz and the field of view is 105°, this makes the Pico 4 a little better than the Pico Neo 3 from earlier this year. Also ram has been improved to 8GB.
The Pico 4 will cost around $425 and sports 128GB of internal storage. There’s also a 256GB version which will cost somewhere in the $495 range. The battery of the new Pico 4 will last up to 3 hours and is mounted to the headstrap of the headset. This should help with balancing the headset on your head.
Unfortunately there’s not a shipping date on the roadmap for a US release of the Pico 4. The new headset wil launch in Japan, Korea and 13 European countries.
Based on the information provided by Bytedance at the Pico 4 presentation the Pico 4 looks a lot like the Meta Quest 2, sharing functions like hand tracking (added later trough update).Because of the recent price rise of the Meta Quest 2 this puts the Pico 4 in a competitive position for beginners of the VR genre. When the Pico 4 releases we will of course thoroughly test it for you!
