Rumors about Metaphrases death Abroad may have been a bit premature, even as Pico headset manufacturer It seems like a rather anti-climactic year in VR. Rumors on the street were that ByteDance, the China-based company best known as the owner of TikTok, was looking to get out of the virtual reality game. Getting started with …
VRChat is now listed as “coming soon” in the app store on the Pico 4. VRChat continues to be the leading virtual reality social platform with millions of users. On Meta Quest headsets it’s almost always a top 10 popular app, and on Steam (where it also supports non-VR) it usually has tens of thousands …
Update 10/21/2023: Bytedance tells AP (link in source notes) that the rumors are false: Pico is operating normally and the company will continue to invest in the XR business for a long time. Bytedance’s Oliver Wheeler would not comment on the rumors to MIXED. However, he said Pico will soon be at AWE in Vienna, …
The Pico OS 5.8 update brings a range of improvements to the ByteDance Quest competitor. Released in August, the 5.7 update reduced hand tracking jitter and increased accuracy and stability. Pico says 5.8 improves hand tracking by fixing an issue that caused more lag and improving tracking when hands overlap, as well as increasing reliability …