There, we expected Pico to fill in the gaps of the headset\u2019s spec sheet, global release plans, and pricing for what is surely one of the company\u2019s most expensive XR headset\u2019s to date.<\/p>\n
Now Pico says it\u2019s adjusting the product release date to sometime in Q4 2026, citing the need for more time to push a \u201cmajor upgrade\u201d to the software experience.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Pico\u2019s announcement below, machine translated below from the original Chinese<\/a>, courtesy Antony \u2018Skarred Ghost\u2019 Vitillo:<\/p>\n PICO Space Pro Release Date Adjusted <\/p>\n Hello everyone, to allow PICO Space Pro to be presented to you in a more complete state, we have decided to adjust the product release date to the fourth quarter of this year. Over the past period, the hardware and software of PICO Space Pro have reached a high level of completion, but during the final stage of experience verification, we saw an exciting new opportunity and wanted to bring it to everyone in the initial release. Therefore, we decided to spend more time on a major upgrade to the software experience. We hope these investments will ultimately lead to a better product experience and look forward to bringing you some new surprises. We sincerely apologize for this adjustment to the release date and for the wait it has caused, and thank you for your continued attention and patience. In the coming months, we will expand our Pioneer Experience Program, inviting more users to experience PICO Space Pro early and work with us to refine the product.<\/p>\n In the meantime, Pico is expanding its \u2018Global Early Access Program\u2019 closed beta test, which includes sending pre-production units and software to applicants for external testing.<\/p>\n As the company\u2019s next flagship, Pico Space Pro is the slated to arrive with microOLED displays boasting 4,000 pixels per inch (PPI), an average ~40 pixels per degree (PPD), and a dual-chip architecture: a custom XR silicon for perception and imaging (claimed ~12 ms perception latency) and separate flagship SoC with \u201cmore than 2\u00d7 CPU and GPU performance vs XR2 Gen 2.\u201d<\/p>\n Pico Space Pro is set to not only compete against Apple Vision Pro, but also Samsung\u2019s Galaxy XR headset which released late last year as the first to run Google\u2019s Android XR processing system, both of which largely appeal to prosumers and enterprise.<\/p>\n My Take<\/p>\n While Pico is undoubtedly going to focus on the Chinese domestic market with Space Pro, the device is also launching globally. I\u2019ve always thought of it primarily as a Vision Pro\/Galaxy XR competitor, but it\u2019s also set to be a direct competitor to Steam Frame across a number of regions too. That\u2019s not a comfortable spot to be in if you can\u2019t go toe-to-toe in the software department, which Valve has in spades, as it\u2019s delivering a native Steam user experience on standalone for the first time. <\/p>\n That said, I don\u2019t know if I entirely buy the company\u2019s supposed launch day software woes as the full reasoning behind the delay, as Pico could simply release updates post-launch to literally no one\u2019s surprise.<\/p>\n I think it has more to do with actively avoiding the very present risk of being upset by Steam Frame\u2019s launch, which is due any day now. Imports of literal tons of units\u00a0<\/a>into the US, FCC certification<\/a>, a constant influx of the best Frame-compatible games<\/a> via Valve\u2019s \u2018Great on Frame\u2019 page, and now a number of leaked Steam Frame unboxing and user setup videos<\/a> all point to Valve\u2019s long-awaited reveal of both the release date and price of one of the most-anticipated VR headsets in recent memory.<\/p>\n And at least from the limited spec sheet mentioned above, Pico Space Pro sounds like it will be a very capable device. Still, it\u2019s competing against Valve, which has more good will stored up among consumers than almost any other company in the space right now. Stepping aside and regrouping as the market digests Steam Frame (for good or ill) may just be the best move Pico can make right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pico was set to debut its next flagship standalone XR headset early next month, however now the ByteDance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[49,48,61,260,261,262],"class_list":["post-871175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787681296_74_pico-project-swan.jpg\")
Leaked \u2018Project Swan\u2019 render | Courtesy Luna<\/p>\n