NVIDIA GeForce NOW PICO Launch Adds Ray Tracing to VR Headsets

pico 4 ultra vr mr headset - which you can download the GeForce NOW PICO app

VR headset owners can get up close and personal with some traced rays thanks to the new NVIDIA GeForce NOW PICO app.

 

Pico VR and NVIVIA are bringing the RTX right into your eyeballs today. VR headset owners can access the GeForce NOW cloud gaming service across today. Access more than 2100 games unlock via the PICO app store from today. That includes some huge games streamed straight into your eyeballs. Turn the graphics all the way up and immerse yourself in Night City, stare down the demons of DOOM, and head into Honkai Star Rail without a top end gaming rig. After an initial announcement at CES 2025, when I admittedly jumped the gun on this one a bit, owners of all PICO VR headset, including thew newest Pico 4 Ultra, can head to the PICO Store and grab the GeForce NOW app. Existing subscribers can download the app, log in and play on the biggest small screen. Owners of the newest WiFi-7 compatible headsets can expect a blistering big screen experience. Anybody looking to turn their VR headset into a powerful cloud gaming rig can choose from a range of subscriptions, each with their own price plan and features.

 

Free

• Basic rig | 4 vCPUs
• Ad-supported
• Longest queue times
• N/A monthly playtime
• Maximum per session length: 1 hour
• Streaming resolution: Up to 1080p
• Streaming frames per second: Up to 60 FPS
• NVIDIA RTX: Off
• Ultrawide monitor support: Off
• In-game settings persistence: Off
• DLSS Frame Generation: Off
• NVIDIA Reflex: Off
• HDR and SDR10: Off
• Cloud G-Sync: Off
• Stereo audio

Performance

• GeForce RTX | 8 vCPUs
• No ads
• Short queue times
• 100 hours monthly playtime with 15 hours rollover
• Maximum per session length: 6 hours
• Streaming resolution: Up to 1440p
• Streaming frames per second: Up to 60 FPS
• NVIDIA RTX: On
• Ultrawide monitor support: On
• In-game settings persistence: On
• DLSS Frame Generation: Off
• NVIDIA Reflex: On
• HDR and SDR10: Off
• Cloud G-Sync: Off
• Surround 5.1 audio

Ultimate

• GeForce RTX 4080 | 16 vCPUs
• No ads
• Shortest queue times
• 100 hours monthly playtime with 15 hours rollover
• Maximum per session length: 8 hours
• Streaming resolution: Up to 4K
• Streaming frames per second: Up to 240 FPS
• NVIDIA RTX: On
• Ultrawide monitor support: On
• In-game settings persistence: On
• DLSS Frame Generation: On
• NVIDIA Reflex: On
• HDR and SDR10: On
• Cloud G-Sync: On
• Surround 5.1 / 7.1 audio

You can even try things out by grabbing a day pass, coming in at less than a high street coffee, or £3.99 here in the UK. Head over to the PICO Store to download and download the GeForce NOW PICO app, hook up a Bluetooth gamepad, and immerse stream your back catalog. Find out more on the PICO website now.

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For those of you who I’ve not met yet, my name is Ed. After an early indoctrination into PC gaming, years adrift on the unwashed internet, running a successful guild, and testing video games, I turned my hand to writing about them. Now, you will find me squawking across a multitude of sites and even getting to play games now and then

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