Along with the consumer-focused Pico 4 headset introduced this week, the corporate has additionally introduced a Pico 4 Professional variant geared toward enterprise use-cases.
With the announcement of Pico 4 this week, Pico is squaring as much as compete with Meta’s Quest 2. However the firm is seemingly additionally making an attempt to prepared itself towards Meta’s upcoming Challenge Cambria, a high-end enterprise-focused standalone headset (which is rumored to be known as the Quest Professional).
Alongside the announcement of Pico 4, the corporate introduced Pico 4 Professional. Apparently due out later this 12 months, the headset seems to be largely the identical from a {hardware} perspective however with the addition of three inner cameras for eye and face-tracking.
With eye-tracking, Pico says the Pico 4 Professional will help automated IPD adjustment by measuring the person’s IPD every time the headset is placed on after which adjusting the IPD distance with a motorized drive. Whereas the Pico 4 additionally features a motorized drive, it lacks eye-tracking so the IPD worth should be set manually.
Pico additionally claims the interior cameras can be utilized for “52 factors” of face-tracking, although it isn’t clear if most of these are immediately sampled or inferred from a mannequin. Face-tracking is tough to get proper (as a result of the outcomes are extremely topic to the uncanney valley and getting a transparent view of the face is tough); the one industrial headsets which have tried face-tracking have needed to make use of cumbersome under-slung cameras. It will likely be to see what Pico can obtain from a largely hidden digicam (which is presumably aimed down towards the person’s mouth).
Except for eye and face-tracking, it seems the Pico 4 Professional shall be primarily the identical {hardware} in any other case, together with a Snapdragon XR2 processor, 2,160 × 2,160 (4.7MP) per-eye decision, and pancake lenses with a claimed 105° field-of-view. You’ll be able to see an in depth record of specs for the headsets right here.
On the software program facet, nonetheless, Pico 4 Professional shall be considerably completely different. The corporate says the headset will embody an enterprise centered variant of its working system and gained’t require any sort of “private identification” to function, which hopefully means no logins.
Pico has but to announce a particular launch date for the Pico 4 Professional, nor a value, although it says the headset will come later this 12 months and can grow to be out there within the US sooner or later.