Pico delays its Space Pro headset nine days before launch
Pico canceled its own hardware launch nine days before it was scheduled to happen.
Pico canceled its own hardware launch nine days before it was scheduled to happen.
The company had booked a Beijing stage for September 2 to unveil Space Pro, a mixed-reality headset built around dual 4K micro-OLED panels at roughly 4,000 pixels per inch, a custom vision co-processor, and a chipset Pico says beats Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 by more than double on CPU and GPU. By Pico's own account, hardware and software had already "reached a high level of completion." Then, in final testing, the team found something worth delaying for — pushing the launch to Q4, three weeks before Meta Connect, the one week a year this category gets the most attention.
For years the contest in this category was fought on a spec sheet: pixels per inch, latency, chip generation. A company walking away from its own announced date to fix the experience rather than the hardware is a different kind of signal. It says the silicon was never the hard part.
