Pico 4 Enterprise Specs vs Quest Professional vs Vive Focus 3

Pico 4 Enterprise was introduced in the present day with a considerably lower cost than its opponents. However how do its specs & options evaluate?

Right here’s an on-paper comparability between it, HTC’s Vive Focus 3, and Meta’s Quest Professional:

After all, on paper spec sheets don’t inform the entire story – now we have a overview of the patron Pico 4 evaluating it to Quest 2, and we plan to overview Meta’s Quest Professional and evaluate it to Pico 4 when it ships.

Pico 4 Enterprise and Vive Focus 3 are marketed and offered to companies with business-focused system software program and enterprise administration options.

Meta hasn’t but launched its equal Quest For Enterprise providing – it’s coming subsequent 12 months.

Vive Focus 3 has fresnel lenses, as did all headsets outdoors China when it launched. Pico 4 Enterprise and Quest Professional have pancake lenses, which help smaller panels with a shorter hole to the lenses, and thus a slimmer & lighter visor.

Pancake lenses additionally are usually sharper & clearer than fresnel, particularly off-center, and exhibit much less glare.

However Vive Focus 3’s lenses have a wider area of view than any present pancake lenses. Pico’s lenses have a taller area of view although.

Focus 3 additionally has by far the best decision, 2448×2448 per eye. Pico 4 Enterprise has 2160×2160, greater than Quest Professional’s 1800×1920.

All three headsets use LCD panels, however Quest Professional’s are distinctive. They’ve native dimming by way of over 500 Mini-LED backlights, and quantum dots. Meta claims the Mini-LEDs ship 75% extra distinction and the quantum dots allow a 30% wider shade gamut.

Quest Professional has 3 face monitoring cameras: 1 on your higher face and a pair of on your decrease face. Pico 4 Enterprise has 1 face monitoring digital camera, on your decrease face.

Vive Focus 3 doesn’t have face monitoring built-in, however HTC sells a $100 single-camera decrease face monitoring add-on.

Pico 4 Enterprise and Quest Professional have eye monitoring inbuilt. Vive Focus 3 doesn’t, however HTC sells a $250 add-on.

All three techniques use one digital camera per eye. Additionally they all help Eye Tracked Foveated Rendering – the method the place solely the small area of the show you’re at present is rendered in full decision, thus liberating up efficiency or permitting for a better base decision, because the relaxation is decrease decision. 

Eye monitoring has different use circumstances too, reminiscent of making eye contact in social experiences and measuring your IPD.

Every particular person has a barely totally different distance between their eyes – their interpupillary distance (IPD). If a headset’s lenses aren’t intently aligned along with your eyes, the picture might be blurry and it will possibly even trigger eye pressure.

All three headsets have steady lens separation adjustment, however how precisely it’s set differs.

Pico 4 Enterprise handles IPD absolutely mechanically. The attention monitoring measures the gap between your pupils, and the motorized lenses transfer to match. They will get as shut as 58mm. Nonetheless, in our shopper Pico 4 overview we famous the lenses crush your nostril beneath 62mm. The Enterprise mannequin seems so as to add nostril padding, however Pico is just itemizing help for 62-72mm.

Quest Professional additionally makes use of its eye monitoring to measure your IPD, however the lenses aren’t motorized. It guides you to maneuver them by hand to the right separation on your IPD.

Vive Focus 3’s lens separation adjustment is absolutely guide. As with most shopper headsets, you need to simply select what separation appears to be like greatest.

Pico 4 Enterprise and Vive Focus 3 use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 chipset. Quest Professional is the primary headset with Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1.

XR2 has the RAM stacked on high of the chip, whereas XR2+ has the RAM to the facet to allow higher thermal dissipation and thus greater sustained efficiency. Qualcomm stated XR2+ can ship “50% greater sustained energy”. Nonetheless, a Meta consultant advised UploadVR that on Quest Professional that determine “refers back to the elevated SoC energy that helps further sensors and new use circumstances” and apps not utilizing these new options will solely have “a bit of extra efficiency headroom”.

Vive Focus 3 has 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM, whereas Pico 4 Enterprise has 8GB of quicker LPDDR5 RAM.

Quest Professional has 50% extra RAM than both, with 12GB LPDDR5 RAM.

All three headsets can present you the actual world by way of onboard cameras, however there are important variations.

The passthrough on Pico 4 Enterprise and Quest Professional has shade, whereas on Vive Focus 3 it’s in black & white.

However the extra important distinction is in depth. Vive Focus 3 passthrough is monoscopic, that means there’s no sense of depth in any respect. Pico 4 passthrough is stereoscopic, nevertheless it’s faked from the monoscopic RGB digital camera within the heart so isn’t depth-correct – the size appears to be like off and it feels fallacious.

Quest Professional’s passthrough is 3D and depth-correct, reconstructed from the 2 entrance monitoring cameras then colorized with the RGB digital camera. It’s appropriate for combined actuality apps, making Quest Professional each a VR and MR headset.

Colocation means having a number of headsets sharing the identical bodily area with the identical digital coordinate area.

Pico 4 Enterprise doesn’t help colocation. Vive Focus 3 does, and it’s already being utilized in VR arcades to considerably cut back price by eradicating the requirement for an exterior monitoring system.

Quest Professional received’t have colocation help at launch, nevertheless it’s coming in a software program replace later this 12 months.

Pico 4 Enterprise and Vive Focus 3 use 4 fisheye cameras to trace infrared (IR) LEDs underneath plastic geometry on their controllers. Vive Focus 3’s controllers home these IR LEDs in a hoop in entrance of your hand, however Pico 4’s controllers have them in an arc over your fingers. The benefit is which you can carry your fingers a lot nearer collectively with out bashing collectively plastic you may’t see inside VR.

Quest Professional’s controllers are self-tracking, with three cameras and an onboard chipset, that means monitoring works at any angle no matter the place the headset is dealing with. Included stylus suggestions connect to the underside to allow them to act as pens to attract on digital whiteboards.

Vive Focus 3 controllers have a primary haptic motor, whereas Pico 4 and Quest Professional controllers have a VCM motor for advanced lifelike haptics. Quest Professional controllers even have LRA motors within the index set off and underneath the thumb relaxation so builders can present exact haptics to the index finger or thumb.

Pico 4 Enterprise has a listed battery life of two+ hours, in comparison with 2 hours for Vive Focus 3 and 1-2 hours for Quest Professional. Meta “Consulting CTO” John Carmack stated Quest Professional lasts longer when not utilizing its new options, nonetheless.

All three headsets cost by way of USB-C, however Quest Professional additionally has pogo pins to cost wirelessly by way of the included dock.

Vive Focus 3’s distinctive function is the battery is detachable and swappable, so if you happen to purchase a number of you may rapidly get again into VR when one runs out.

Pico 4 Enterprise helps Wi-Fi 6. Vive Focus 3 helps Wi-Fi 6E, and Quest Professional is getting Wi-Fi 6E in a software program replace early subsequent 12 months.

Wi-Fi 6E provides the brand new 6 GHz frequency band. The upper frequency, in comparison with the prevailing 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, permits for greater bandwidth and fewer interference from different units – although it will possibly’t journey as far or penetrate partitions as properly.

Quest Professional has a 3-microphone array, in comparison with the 2-microphone array on Pico 4 Enterprise and Vive Focus 3.

Meta claims this permits 20% higher noise canceling and “superior beamforming” in comparison with Quest 2.

Pico 4 Enterprise and Quest Professional have 256GB storage, however it will possibly’t be expanded.

Vive Focus 3 has solely 128GB onboard, nevertheless it has a microSD slot that helps as much as 2TB playing cards.