All in all, it’s a nice and elegant headset, but it looks like it could have been better. The same holds for the too many buttons around the device: they are useful but are not beautiful. For instance, the front metal vent is very important to make the internals of the headset not get too warm, but it ruins a bit the aesthetics of the headset. While Oculus cares a lot about the design of its units and polishes all the details of the external aspect, Pico seems to take a more “Chinese” approach and offers a design that is nice, but that bends to the needs of what can be functional. Visually speaking, Pico Neo 3 looks like a less-refined Quest 2. These are the little things that make me understand that it is a company that cares about its users and its reviewers. Since my unit has been sent directly from Pico, I have also found a kind message from the company inside. The box contains exactly what you would expect: the headset, the controllers, a power adapter, a USB-C cable, an instruction manual. Interesting, but with not a beautiful shape, honestly. I also found the solution to store the cables and the instructions pamphlet interesting, with a bridge-shaped plastic piece that contained a little box with all the various accessories inside. Opening it, I had no sensation of delight and wonder, but I found the content well packaged in an elegant way. Pico Neo 3 Pro comes in an elegant white box with Pico branding. Wi-fi streaming or tethered streaming to SteamVR integrated in the runtime.Tobii eye tracking in Pico Pro 3 Eye model.Integrated audio, with 3.5mm jack to connect external headphones.5300 mAh battery, for around 2.5-3h of usage.All-PU materials fabrication, for easier sanitization.Optical Tracked Controllers, with 32 tracking points.Maximum 10m x 10m tracking area and mm-precision accuracy.Cameras have 400×400 resolution and run at 120Hz.Optical Positional tracking, with 4 tracking cameras.6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) for the Pro model, 8GB for the Pro Eye Model.4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display.Or just keep reading for the usual wall-of-text that you all love □ Specifications If you are a video type, you can watch it here below. But is it really that good? Can it really compete with the Quest? Well, let’s discover the answers to all these questions in today’s review □ Pico Neo 3 Pro Video ReviewĪs usual, I have also created a video version of this article, and in it, I describe to you all the main features of this headset, from the visuals to the comfort, not to mention the headset and controllers’ tracking. Pico has been a very smart company, and all these years it has been able to evolve from the mediocre Pico Neo 1, to the interesting Pico Neo 2, to arrive at the Pico Neo 3, that on paper, looks like a Chinese version of the Oculus Quest 2, and it seems to have all the features to compete properly with this device. They are the business counterpart of the Pico Neo 3, the consumer headset that Pico is selling in China for around $400, hoping to kickstart a consumer VR ecosystem there. Pico Neo 3 Pro, and its sibling Pico Neo 3 Pro Eye (featuring eye-tracking), are the latest enterprise headsets by Pico.
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