Pico was set to debut its next flagship standalone XR headset early next month, however now the ByteDance subsidiary says it’s postponing the reveal and release date of its long-awaited Apple Vision Pro competitor.
Initially teased earlier this year as ‘Project Swan’, Pico announced last week it was putting on a big product launch event for the newly-named Pico Space Pro, which was set to take place in Beijing on September 2nd.
There, we expected Pico to fill in the gaps of the headset’s spec sheet, global release plans, and pricing for what is surely one of the company’s most expensive XR headset’s to date.
Now Pico says it’s adjusting the product release date to sometime in Q4 2026, citing the need for more time to push a “major upgrade” to the software experience.
Here’s Pico’s announcement below, machine translated below from the original Chinese , courtesy Antony ‘Skarred Ghost’ Vitillo:
Hello everyone, to allow PICO Space Pro to be presented to you in a more complete state, we have decided to adjust the product release date to the fourth quarter of this year. Over the past period, the hardware and software of PICO Space Pro have reached a high level of completion, but during the final stage of experience verification, we saw an exciting new opportunity and wanted to bring it to everyone in the initial release. Therefore, we decided to spend more time on a major upgrade to the software experience. We hope these investments will ultimately lead to a better product experience and look forward to bringing you some new surprises. We sincerely apologize for this adjustment to the release date and for the wait it has caused, and thank you for your continued attention and patience. In the coming months, we will expand our Pioneer Experience Program, inviting more users to experience PICO Space Pro early and work with us to refine the product.
In the meantime, Pico is expanding its ‘Global Early Access Program’ closed beta test, which includes sending pre-production units and software to applicants for external testing.
As the company’s next flagship, Pico Space Pro is the slated to arrive with microOLED displays boasting 4,000 pixels per inch (PPI), an average ~40 pixels per degree (PPD), and a dual-chip architecture: a custom XR silicon for perception and imaging (claimed ~12 ms perception latency) and separate flagship SoC with “more than 2× CPU and GPU performance vs XR2 Gen 2.”