VR Download: Meta Quest HDMI Link, Pico 4 Ultra Launches In China

[@jadrankoVRCatalans]

"I'm going to risk going offtopic here.." coming from Ian this is terrifying

[@chidorirasenganz]

bizzaro world moment 😂

[@frankjonestba]

😂🤣. LMAO #1 comment 🎉

[@jadrankoVRCatalans]

your thoughts about a decent-looking compact charging case are spot on. I've given up arguing against the charging docks that are huge and leave your headset exposed to the dust. I suppose many people want to show off their headsets on a shelf but I just find it impractical

[@Metzanine]

Box To The Beat will support the Pico leg trackers - for Kickbox To The Beat! Can't wait. It's already an awesome game!

[@JorgTheElder]

Just for general information Ian. "Pull out all the stops" refers to the stops on a pipe organ, and has nothing to do with trains.

[@BenDowswell]

Oh that's cool, didn't know that

[@joshuadadad5414]

Pico hardware is great- superior to Meta (even if the lenses are not quite as good) and I loved my Pico 4. But I have gone Meta Q3 for now because of the great ongoing software upgrades and questionable ongoing commitment of Bytedance. We know Meta will stick with VR support for some time, but Pico can flip on a dime and failed to get promised accessories out for years for Pico 4. For media consumption I will wait for microoled rather than P4U. Ideal situation for consumers would be Pico headsets with Horizon.

[@joshuadadad5414]

As far as trust, I don't care about having Alexa in every room of my house or using google or Chinese things that track much of what I do. I am not that important! So long as any monetary account details are not leaked it doesn't really matter to me.

[@claytonyoung1351]

Ian is 100% correct on Internet speed.

[@ivan-j4l9x]

I use freethink battery hotswappable battery system. It uses a single or double dock with 5000ma sticks. This is great because it is slim i can mount it to the side of my quest when lying down. It has 18w output so it can keep up with the quest 3 power draw.

[@frankjonestba]

53:12 when I... *_I mean a "Friend"...._* forget to charge their headset but don't really want to use their Quest 3 sometimes used and extension cord to their belt and then have the power supply with a USB-C cable to the headset via a wrap around the head strap. When I *ahem* **they** run the cable inside their shirt the cable is forgotten -but that is in immersive, engaging content. _they never use this strategy to play on their headset after the batteries were full: when the battery and backup battery dies after been fully charged._ That *never* _happens_ 😂

[@frankjonestba]

50:50 .... Ahh and credit to Meta too.

[@dragonmagicstudio]

PICO hardware always been better compared to META, there are a lot of things META does wrong too and even missed opportunities, even when it was Occulus they had their own mistakes too. Ian is reporting very biased, David is the one doing the good work here, covering the devices open minded based on facts rather than on speculations. For me the best VR device is simply the device that delivers what i need, now at 10+ years in XR i can only say there is no perfect device at all they all still have flaws, it is still improving slowly and sometimes new devices do things wrong what was already done good before. If you worried about privacy you should not even use a META device at all, the whole privacy discussion is just BS, META is not any better, just use PCVR if you worried about privacy as you can control the at OS level what you are running and ofcourse run your own LINUX setup for VR if you worried about privacy as the other US company called Microsoft also likes to respect your privacy right ? I hope in future the nonsense politics could be left out and review just honestly the hardware, all those companies work hard to make what they think is the next level of hardware. There are not so many companies investing in XR as there is in other hardware, every single one deserve their respect, without them XR would already been dead in the water.

[@Metzanine]

Meta only changed their name. Their business model is still the same - datarape / surveillance capitalism

[@claytonyoung1351]

Could care less about hdmi Frankenstein solution. Way too long discussing this.

[@Uploadvr]

That's why we have chapters (timestamps) - you can choose what you want to see/hear discussed!

[@claytonyoung1351]

@@Uploadvr I appreciate the time stamps, but that misses the point.

[@claytonyoung1351]

Whatever your most pessimistic view is, of how long till AR glasses arrive, it will arrive in half that amount of time, at worst. Technology advances exponentially, not linearly. Ar glasses are already hitting the market. When Technology is new, it's overpriced and bad. That's where we are now. It will get better: rapidly. It will get cheaper: rapidly. Not a long time in a galaxy far far away.

[@tomc1380]

Until Pico offers more worldwide sales/support, including US/Canada/Australia, they are irrelevant, and a waste of time putting out videos about them. Just my opinion of course.

[@dragonmagicstudio]

If you are an XR enthusiast, every device should be get their own coverage, excluding devices makes you become biased.

[@tomc1380]

@@dragonmagicstudio I suppose that's very true mate. However, like the AVP, the Pico Ultra doesn't seem to warrant as much VR air time that it seems to be getting right now imho. Still, I agree, some VR news is better than none. Cheers.

[@_Huffy]

@@tomc1380 If there wasn't so many stories about how AVP had a better passthrough than Quest 3, I doubt Meta would have rushed out improvements in back-to-back releases. Competition is important and it's important that our headset manufactures know that we're aware of our devices shortcomings.

[@joshuadadad5414]

I have a Pico 4 in Australia, easy to buy from Europe (XR shop) and totally useable. Don't exclude tech just because it is not marketed in your region, grey imports are a big piece of the tech market.

[@tomc1380]

@@joshuadadad5414 Ya, well good luck with all that mate, lol!