This leaked Meta Quest 3 rival is more powerful, but it needs one thing to truly beat Meta’s VR headset

While the Apple Vision Pro has become the most prominent Meta Quest rival, offering an ultra-premium alternative to the budget-friendly Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest 3 VR headsets, there are a few other Quest alternatives out there – and based on leaks it sounds like one Quest 2 competitor, the Pico 4, is about to get a next-gen reboot.

The so-called Pico 4S – or Pico 4 Ultra as it will apparently be called in some regions – may look like the sleek original (per images shared by Android Headlines), but a South Korean certification and Geekbench score leaked in June tease some notable improvements (per UploadVR). It’ll reportedly pack a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset, 12GB of RAM, and two new cameras on the front face that should boost its mixed-reality passthrough quality.