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Phoenix News (Author/Wang Haotong) On August 20, PICO released its new MR hybrid display headset, PICO 4 Ultra, in Beijing. After the event, PICO's product manager, Mr. Hu Xikun, who is responsible for hardware, Mr. Ma Jiesi, who is responsible for product OS, Mr. Yao Shuai, who is responsible for the app store, and Ms. Tang Zhen, who is responsible for somatosensory equipment, were interviewed by media including Phoenix News.

PICO OS Director Ma Jiesi

The PICO 4 Ultra released this time uses the new second-generation Qualcomm XR 2 processor platform in terms of hardware, upgraded to 12GB of memory and supports Wi-Fi 7. With the help of the upgraded hardware, the PICO 4 Ultra supports the multi-window function of 20 windows opened at the same time. In fact, compared with other similar products in the industry, the PICO 4 Ultra is not equipped with other coprocessors, and only uses the Qualcomm XR2 Gen 2 platform for data calculation. In this regard, Ma Jiesi, head of PICO OS, said that under the existing computing power, it is indeed necessary to make trade-offs in certain functions. PICO will give priority to several aspects. The first is the clarity and number of windows. In addition, PICO 4 Ultra has also optimized the VST experience. The parameters of VST are relatively high. For example, 8 million pixels are twice that of other head products.

At the same time, the PICO 4 Ultra released this time emphasizes more tool attributes and productivity scenarios through functions such as multi-window workbench. Regarding the possible changes in the positioning of PICO products, OS director Ma Jiesi also mentioned: "The early idea of ​​VR was not to make a game console, but to regard XR and VR as computing platforms. Under the technical limitations at the time, games were the most reasonable and best choice as the main usage scenario. Now with the enhancement of chips, the maturity of various sensors and software, and the development of technology, devices can move from entertainment scenarios to more general scenarios. This is an inevitable trend of technological development."

Regarding the question of whether PICO products will be divided into two product lines in the future, in view of the gaming users and general computing users in the current head-mounted display market, Ma Jiesi also said that MR is just like a computer, and powerful gaming devices are also powerful productivity tools. Powerful devices are not only for playing games, but can also be used in other scenarios, such as AI or video editing.

In addition, regarding the wearing comfort of PICO 4 Ultra, Hu Xikun, PICO product manager and hardware director, said that for PICO 4 Ultra, we have optimized the overall dizziness, and the proportion and degree of dizziness of users have improved compared with PICO 4. In addition, we have also optimized the camera, computing processing and screen delay, especially the video perspective frame alignment technology emphasized at the press conference today, which makes the camera and display more synchronized. These optimizations ultimately reduce the dizziness.

Tang Zhen, head of PICO somatosensory equipment

Finally, regarding the macaron tracker launched at the press conference, PICO said that only two are needed to capture the whole body movements with the PICO 4 Ultra. Ms. Tang Zhen, who is responsible for the somatosensory equipment, said that in terms of hardware, PICO has upgraded the visual solution, and its solution has become the same as the handle. In addition to the traditional IMU, there are also IR lights, which is equivalent to two small handles tied to our feet. Secondly, PICO has done a lot of algorithm training, and various action training in the laboratory. In order to make everyone reach a low threshold, we can all get started easily, and the tracking effect is very good. It is the result of the joint efforts of hardware, software and algorithms.