PICO 4 Ultra 256 GB - VR and Mixed Reality Headset

Pico 4 Ultra VR Headset: A Capable All-Rounder with Room for Improvement As an avid VR enthusiast, I was excited to get my hands on the Pico 4 Ultra. After spending some quality time with it, here's my take: Pros: Easy Setup & Performance: The headset was a breeze to set up, and its 12GB RAM delivers great performance and multitasking capabilities. Clear Visuals: The pancake lenses provide clear, edge-to-edge vision, and the display, while LCD, offers good resolution with minimal screen door effect. Impressive Mixed Reality: The mixed reality passthrough is a significant upgrade, offering excellent tracking and room recognition, making for immersive experiences. Seamless PCVR Streaming: Pico Connect makes PCVR streaming straightforward, providing good quality even wirelessly. Accurate Full-Body Tracking: The optional motion trackers are incredibly easy to set up and deliver accurate full-body tracking, a huge plus for social VR. Cons: Facial Interface Discomfort: The biggest drawback for me was the facial interface, which caused discomfort and light leakage due to its shape. Subpar Hand Tracking: While present, the hand tracking lacked accuracy and responsiveness, with noticeable latency. Smaller App Store: The app store, while growing, is still not as robust as some competitors. Overall, the Pico 4 Ultra is a strong contender, especially for its mixed reality capabilities and effortless full-body tracking. If the facial interface fits you well, and you're looking for a solid all-around VR experience, it's definitely worth considering, especially with the pre-order bundle. However, be mindful of the less-than-stellar hand tracking and the comparatively smaller app library.

Very good for pc vr, battery lasts longer than quest 3 and its more comfortable with a better fov and picture. There is slight glare on the lenses if you have the brightness turned up or have the vr on at the wrong angle and it’s probably not the go to unit for standalone games or if you already have a meta library full. I’m very impressed with how much nicer and faster this is than the quest 3 for steam / vd pcvr. Pass through is about the same as quest 3 and much nicer than the original Pico 4. Got this as a used like new unit (box opened return) and no issues.

amazing quality and performance especially with SteamVR on WIFI7

An excellent headset with a much simpler connection process to PCVR than the Meta Quest 2, but the microphone leaves a lot to be desired. I have no idea what incompetence led to the microphone being placed on the front of the headset instead of the side. It’s constantly picking up harsh wind sounds from p and b words and when you turn the noise reduction on it greatly reduces the quality of the mic. Not to mention the audio from the headset’s speakers get picked up if you’re using it without noise reduction too. Furthermore, there’s a slight delay in the mic when playing PCVR as well. This would be a perfect headset but the microphone really holds it back.

Great headset, confortabil to wear and modern design and the battery life seems to be decent, perfect as a first VR headset, you get a few free games plus another one when you send feedback. If you have already the Pico 4 don't upgrade,no significant/visible improvement, wait for the next model. Downsides: store content and no monthly subscription compared to competitors.

Upgraded from a wired Oculus Rift S gen 1, and the difference is night and day, really I didnt believe the advertising before that its more comfortable and provides a better image or that it can do streaming from pc wirelessly without issues. Well all those came true, streaming is awesone no hiccups with av1 decoding/encoding, games work perfectly virtually no lag, its almost not noticeable, beat saber does have a bigger delay but with adjustment its almost the same, and the best part if you want it to be the same, just grab a type c cable and use it wired! Screen and ipd adjustment are amazing, in the rift s i could clearly see the pixels with this its way less noticeable. The clarity is great and the colors are well oled cannot be beaten, no more grey darks, and no more yellow whites. Pico connect app works fine, sone settibg tweaking is required for better quality but it still is a great streaming app, and yes it works with youtube and with sbs movies. There is a pico app store and some games can be found on it but i still prefer streaming from steam. Updates are pushed fairly often and all settings are adjustable, developer mode is easy to unlock and adb debugging is also available. As for other settings Hand control is also great, no controllers required! Its a bit of a weird mess but when the lighting is good it works amazingly. Definitely my new favorite.

Had a lot of fun with this, replacing my aging Reverb G2. This has a simple usb-c connector for charging and data. It worked well for about 8 months and then the usb-c port broke because it's quite badly secured. The connector doesn't go all the way in. Over time, the simple weight of the cable is enough to break the socket and then this whole lovely headset is just an expensive brick. The socket for connecting USB-C cables needs to be much stronger. The cable for mine was long, never snagged, not regularly connected/disconnected, used for seated gaming only... and still the socket on the headset failed. If you buy one of these, you need a 'sacrifical' usb-c extender, permanently connected to the socket and taped to the side of the headset so it can take the stress away from the headset socket. Pico really didn't think this through. You can use WiFi for data but it's too stuttery, even on a dedicated WiFi 7 hotspot, for PC gaming

Purchased this for my son as a gift. I haven’t seen him since. “Hours of fun, highly addictive.” - said my son