Pico 4 Shipments Delayed in Europe Due to High Global Demand - Road to VR

Pico released its standalone VR headset Neo 3 Link this summer, marking its archetypal existent propulsion to motorboat a user instrumentality extracurricular of Asia. Now it’s getting acceptable to vessel the follow-up standalone Pico 4, and the institution seems to beryllium struggling to support up with request successful immoderate regions.

Pico opened up pre-orders of Pico 4 successful precocious September with the purpose of initially releasing the headset contiguous crossed respective regions, including 13 European countries, Japan, and Korea.

Note: there’s inactive nary connection connected whether Pico 4 is coming to the US, though Pico Interactive, owned by TikTok genitor ByteDance, is expanding to the US to vie with Meta.

Pico says in a caller tweet however immoderate European customers whitethorn spot delays successful shipment owed to precocious demand:

“Due to unprecedented planetary demand, determination volition unluckily beryllium delays successful fulfilling immoderate lawsuit pre-orders successful the EU region. We are moving tirelessly to guarantee that request is satisfied by the extremity of October,” Pico says.

Continuing: “We powerfully urge that you support your backmost bid successful spot astatine your preferred retailer arsenic we volition beryllium prioritising existing backmost orders first. If you are affected, delight judge our sincerest apologies. We are doing everything we tin to resoluteness it arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. In the meantime, if you can’t hold immoderate longer to get your hands connected a PICO headset, Neo 3 Link is disposable and successful banal close now.”

In Europe, Pico 4 is powerfully positioned to vie with Meta Quest 2. At €430 for the 128GB exemplary and €500 for the 256GB model, Pico 4 not lone beats Quest 2 connected pricing, but besides goes toe-to-toe successful the specs department while providing a slimmer illustration acknowledgment to the summation of pancake lenses.

Last period the institution besides announced Pico 4 Pro, an enterprise-focused variant owed retired aboriginal this twelvemonth which adds 3 interior cameras for oculus and face-tracking. Pricing and motorboat of that instrumentality is inactive unclear, though it whitethorn beryllium looking to instrumentality marketplace stock distant from the precocious announced Meta Quest Pro, which is priced astatine an eye-watering $1,500.