Pico 4 Ultra review: powerful, but second fiddle to the Meta Quest 3 VR headset
Pico 4 Ultra: Two minute review The Pico 4 Ultra is giving me serious deja vu, and it’s not entirely the good kind. That’s because its launch is extremely reminiscent of its predecessor; the base Pico 4. A Meta Quest VR headset is the dominant force in the budget/mid range market (then the Meta Quest 2, now the Meta Quest 3), and Pico is launching a device with better specs at an only marginally higher price. In this instance, the Pico 4 Ultra will net you the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset, 256GB of storage, and 12GB of RAM for £529 (around $695 / AU$1025). Meanwhile, the Meta Quest 3 ($499.99 / £479.99 / AU$799.99) only boasts 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM with the same chipset. But despite that additional oomph, the Pico 4 Ultra (like the Pico 4 before it) is let down by a lack of software with which to demonstrate its hardware superiority. With Meta picking up more and more hard-hitting exclusives that you can’t play on Pico systems – including entries in ...