Pico, the XR headset maker owned by TikTok dad or mum ByteDance, is reportedly growing a blended actuality gadget aimed toward rivaling Meta’s next-generation XR headset.
Based on a report from The Info, Pico is at the moment engaged on a pair of blended actuality “goggles” codenamed ‘Swan’, that are stated to be skinny and light-weight—reportedly weighing round simply 100 grams.
Citing three individuals with direct information of the venture, The Info reviews that the gadget includes a hybrid design that offloads processing to a tethered compute puck. This method permits the glasses portion of the gadget to be considerably thinner and lighter than current-generation XR headsets just like the Quest 3 or Pico 4 Extremely.
Swan can be stated to rely totally on eye and hand monitoring for enter, shifting away from bodily controllers. Moreover, the report notes that Pico is growing “specialised chips for the gadget that may course of knowledge from its sensors to attenuate the lag or latency between what a consumer sees in AR [sic] and their bodily actions.”
Swan is claimed to be conceptually much like Meta’s reportedly upcoming blended actuality gadget codenamed ‘Phoenix’, which additionally features a compute puck and a glasses-like type issue. Based on a current Wall Road Journal report, Meta’s headset might launch in both 2026 (WSJ’s estimate) or 2027 (as cited by The Info) and will price underneath $1,000.
The codename itself continues to be a matter of hypothesis: The Info refers to Meta’s headset as ‘Phoenix’, whereas the WSJ makes use of ‘Loma’, and on-line sources have additionally talked about ‘Puffin’.
That stated, there may be at the moment no data on what Swan will price or the place it’s going to ship. Up to now, Pico’s client headsets have sometimes been priced barely above Meta’s equivalents and have been out there primarily in East and Southeast Asia and Europe—however not in North America.
