Pico Interactive right this moment introduced it’s on the point of reveal “a brand new product” this month, promising to spice up your “MR/VR expertise to the subsequent degree.”
The machine is slated to get its massive reveal on August twentieth. A picture obtained by Antony Vitillo of Skarred Ghost maintains it is going to be revealed at 14:00 China Normal Time (native time right here).
Evidently the brand new Pico Headset is approaching August, twentieth at 2pm Beijing Time!#VirtualReality #VR #China #know-how #metaverse pic.twitter.com/nuuv3On8zq
— TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) August 7, 2024
The corporate additionally teased the brand new headset in a separate X publish yesterday, with the hashtags ‘Pico 4’ and ‘Improve’:
Brace your self for a shock! Coming quickly! 😼#PICO4 #Teaser #Improve pic.twitter.com/5tQhpynZe4
— PICO XR (@PICOXR) August 6, 2024
The tease suggests it’s going to seemingly be one other XR headset and never an non-compulsory accent, though the point out of ‘improve’ isn’t conclusive.
Offered it’s certainly a brand new headset, a attainable candidate could possibly be the rumored Pico 4S, which was the topic of a leaked controller design again in March.
Much less seemingly is Pico 5 or potential Pico 5 Professional Max, each of which have been rumored since late final yr. Since then, Pico mother or father firm Byte Dance issued wide-reaching layoffs, which can have dampened its shopper ambitions—not less than exterior of Asia and presumably Europe the place it has launched earlier headsets.