The possible new Pico 4S VR headset could have more RAM than the Meta Quest 3

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Pico’s next step? The 4S headset may use the Meta Quest 3’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2, but it has more RAM than the competition.

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A publicly available CPU benchmark suggests that a possible Pico 4S will have the same chip as the Meta Quest 3, but paired with more RAM.

VR enthusiast Luna, who recently posted details about a possible new Quest 3S, posted the Geekbench result on X (formerly Twitter).

A Pico 4S/5 device has apparently been listed on Geekbench with what appears to be an SXR2230P (Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2) and 12GB of RAM pic.twitter.com/iKEWJim4Nc

– Luna (@Lunayian) June 2, 2024

The post shows a performance comparison of the Quest 3 with a headset called “Pico A9210”. Both devices have two 2.05GHz cores and four 2.36GHz cores. However, Quest 3 achieves 20% higher single-core performance and 5% higher multi-core performance.

While the Quest 3 has 8GB of RAM, the Pico A9210 is specified with 12GB of RAM. This means that the new Pico could be superior to the Quest 3 in terms of performance on the device, which could also have a positive effect on the use of higher resolution textures and more details.

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New effort from Pico?

According to reports, Pico has canceled the development of a successor to the Pico 4, but intends to release an improved version of the Pico 4 – the Pico 4S. Pictures of the ringless controllers have already been posted on a Chinese forum. So far there are no details about the technical features of the device.

Pico’s owner, Bytedance, bought the VR company in early 2021 for a reported $1.3 billion to emulate Zuckerberg’s Metaverse vision. In 2023, Bytedance reversed course and laid off more than half of Pico’s employees.

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