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Chinese ByteDance The most famous company in construction Tik TokWhen I entered the virtual reality game He bought the startup Pico In 2021. Now, Pico is taking its mixed reality (XR) efforts seriously by creating software that lets people use multiple apps in 3D digital workspaces. Many of its features look very similar to what you can find in Apple Vision Protwo years after the launch of this device.
in Mobile World Congress 2026 In Barcelona, Pico announced its latest XR operating system, Pico OS 6. The OS won’t run on the company’s current Pico 4 from 2022, but it aims to roll it out on Pico’s unreleased headset, nicknamed Project Swan. At MWC, Pico offered little information about the upcoming headphones. But details about the features it plans to put into its operating system offer a good look at what Pico hopes to achieve with its flagship device, which it says will arrive this year.
One of the biggest points of focus in the new OS version is what Pico calls PanoScreen, a feature that allows wearers to run multiple apps simultaneously while also maintaining a 360-degree view of the real-world space surrounding them. Other users can enter the space as 3D avatars while rotating to see spreadsheets, browser tabs, design programs, or whatever else you’re working on. “Pico OS 6 represents a step toward making the XR a practical computing tool, not just a gaming device,” the company says in its press release. (WIRED requested comment directly, but Pico declined to answer any questions about the new operating system or Project Swan.)
Spatial race
If Pico’s focus on 3D workspace sounds familiar, it’s likely because Apple took a very similar approach when it launched Apple Vision Pro Headphone in 2024.
“Their timing is a bit odd,” says Jitesh Ubrani, research director at analyst group IDC. “The fact that they’re entering the market at all seems a bit strange, too.”
Pico isn’t the only one working on XR workspaces. Sight Spacestop glasses It brought spatial computing to the workplace in a way that was more intuitive than the Apple Vision Pro, not to mention much easier to wear than bulky headphones. In July 2025, The Information reported that Biko was working on a different project Light The headset is meant to confront the Meta’s head-on Orion Glasses, but that It was eventually cancelled.
Like all Face computer There, Pico’s upcoming flagship headphone will aim to find a delicate balance between usefulness and ease of wear. At the MWC event, Pico dropped some hints on how this could work out for Project Swan. Pico says the headset will feature a micro-OLED display with a pixel density of close to 4,000 pixels per inch. It’s also supposed to have a resolution of 40 pixels per degree (PPD) with a “center sweet spot” at around 45 PPD to help read all that little text in the floating spreadsheets.
These are specifications that are very close to the Apple Vision Pro. To compete, Pico must make something cheaper and lighter, but it must also have developers building on its platform. (Apple Vision Pro starts at $3,499.)
Pico OS 6 will work with developer toolkits such as Spatial, OpenXR, and WebXR. It also allows development in Unity and Unreal Engine. The OS supports Android apps, web apps, and PCVR streaming. WebSpatial, an open source toolset, allows users to develop their own applications using standard web tools such as HTML and CSS to create spatial computing services. These apps can run across platforms across Apple’s Pico OS and VisionOS Android.