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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. Oculus had already set everyone’s expectations. Pre-Release and Pre Release. Expected Expense.

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JULY 7, 2016

When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Seattle’s annual PAX West 2016 gaming convention starts tomorrow with VR once again expected to have a significant presence. To make things easier for VR-inclined PAX attendees, we’ve compiled a list of where you can experience VR at PAX West 2016. Oculus Rift). HTC Vive, Oculus Rift). Oculus Rift).

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JUNE 12, 2017

Survios’ stunning VR action game Raw Data , currently in Early Access for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, will launch in September on PlayStation VR. Our players have been clamoring for PvP ever since Raw Data ’s earliest demos,” said Mike McTyre, Survios Game Design Director. “ Photo courtesy Survios.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Market researcher SuperData scaled back its virtual reality forecast for 2016, particularly after a disappointing launch of the PlayStation VR headsets. But it still believes that consumer VR software could grow from $407 million in revenue in 2016 to $14 billion by 2020. SuperData scaled back its forecast from 2.6

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

Though it’s Facebook’s newest headset, Oculus Quest may be the company’s most popular so far, at least as far as search volume is concerned. Released earlier this year, Oculus Quest has entered the fray and made a big splash. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google.

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APRIL 26, 2017

2016 marked the birth of the modern virtual reality era with the launch of HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PSVR. eMarketer’s reporter compiled statistics from the International Data Corporation (IDC), finding that PSVR accounted for more than 90% of VR headset shipments in Japan by the end of Q4 2016.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

To demystify the data, Road to VR has developed a proprietary model which derives actual headset counts by correcting for Steam’s changing population. The latest data shows that monthly-connected VR headsets on Steam have reached a record high of 1.3 Data gap from seven months of data misreported by Valve. Trend Line.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

That’s to be expected, of course, given that most Steam games require just a gaming PC and not an expensive headset on top to be played, but Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and OSVR-supported games do make a small appearance in the recently-published list of 100 games that grossed the most revenue over those 366 days.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The Steam Autumn sale is once again upon us, and this time around this time Valve have flagged close to a whopping 300 VR titles for discounts, including games that support both the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and OSVR. SEE ALSO Save $100 on HTC Vive During Black Friday & Cyber Monday. Check out the full list over at Steam here.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

Sairento VR is a new made-for-VR first person action game which manages to distil everything that was cool about SUPERHOT VR , Raw Data and adds its own locomotion system for something which promises to be even cooler than either of them. ” So far so predictable then. We’ll be back with a more in-depth look at the title later.

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MAY 30, 2017

Since launching in December 2016 the Oculus Touch controllers have become an essential peripheral for any Rift owner, and Oculus’ latest data proves that. Oculus dropped the price of both Touch and the Rift at GDC 2017 back at the beginning of March, bringing the total of both to $598.

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MAY 12, 2021

What people required the most in a new VR headset, according to a survey proposed by HTC Vive. In the first one, you can read what are the features that people that HTC interviewed were asking for a VR headset : HTC has used these data to design its new headset and accompanying software ecosystem so that to fulfill these requests.

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JULY 14, 2017

Oculus seeks to bridge the gap between PC and mobile VR with a mid-level headset. Oculus is all up in the news lately. The Facebook-owned VR manufacturer shut down its Oculus Stories department and revealed a ridiculous $399 Rift & Touch bundle sale running throughout the entire summer.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Valve dropped some interesting VR user data onto its community pages during GDC, providing an easily missed but important update about how people are using the Steam platform for virtual reality in the wake of Oculus Touch. ” The update also included the first data since June 2016 showing the play spaces of people using SteamVR.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

2016 was the true birth of the virtual reality industry , so outlook was all over the place depending on who you spoke with and it makes sense that the perspective of GDC attendees would be valued. In addition, 19% of developers said they were working on an Oculus Rift game while all the others were under 10%.

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JUNE 6, 2019

To demystify the data, Road to VR has developed a proprietary model which derives actual headset counts by correcting for Steam’s changing population. The latest data shows that monthly-connected VR headsets on Steam have surpassed 1 million for the first time. Data gap from seven months of data misreported by Valve.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

VR Sales Analysis: Rift and Vive to Sell Under 500,000 in 2016, PS VR to Top 2 Million SuperData Research is a New York based research firm that has been creating detailed reports on the immersive industry for months. Its most recent study centers around likely sales figures for the major VR headsets.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The 2016 Autodesk University event kicked off in Las Vegas yesterday, and the design software company wasted no time in making some big announcements for the VR industry. Forge, the company’s cloud-based developer platform, is now coming to the HTC Vive via the Viveport platform.

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JULY 16, 2016

The SteamVR powered HTC Vive virtual reality system may see an updated “HTC Vive 2.0″ The HTC Vive, powered with technology developed by gaming giant Valve, had an impressively short gestation period. See Also: HTC Vive Review: A Mesmerising VR Experience, if You Have the Space.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Initially, SuperData predicted Sony would sell well over 2 million PS VR headsets by the end of 2016. We combine both proprietary and public data sources to arrive at an objective reading of the market, including financial information obtained through our client network. ” Tagged with: analysts , PSVR , sales , superdata.

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OCTOBER 9, 2016

Now in its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have shadowed Oculus’ developer conference Connect since the first event, with an aim to celebrate the best that this new immersive industry has to offer. Raw Data – Survios. SEE ALSO 'Raw Data' Early Access Review. Raw Data – Survios. But who else made the grade?

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JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. Shipments begin a little later than the original estimation of October 2016.

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JANUARY 6, 2019

The two largest PC VR headset manufacturers, Oculus and HTC, have been cagey on providing sales numbers, although GPU manufacturer Nvidia might have a pretty good line on how many headsets have been sold since consumer PC VR came to market in early 2016. SEE ALSO 2018 Ends With a Record Number of VR Headsets on Steam.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Hard data on the VR market is often difficult to come by, while broad ‘industry reports’ are often so general that it’s difficult to see what things look like ‘on the ground’ To get a sense of VR’s outlook in 2021, we’ve collected 14 of the most recent and concrete indicators for your perusal.

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MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

We saw the release of the Oculus Rift, the HTC Vive, the PlayStation VR, Google’s Daydream platform, the Oculus Touch controllers, and the continued growth of both the OSVR and Samsung Gear VR platforms. Survios ( Raw Data ). Insomniac ( Edge of Nowhere, The Unspoken ). Squanchtendo ( Accounting ). Accounting.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its world-changing potential that was trumpeted during the circa-2016 hype cycle didn’t pan out. The biggest factor driving that hardware base today is Facebook’s VR investments , most notably the Q4-launched Oculus Quest 2. Beyond Oculus, we don’t want to discount other hardware, as there are notable players in the market.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

With the release of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and (s00n) the PlayStation VR, as well as enthusiastic press from both specialist and mainstream publications, VR is no longer on the verge of emerging. Read More: The Full List of Winners from the 2016 Proto Awards.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Aldin Dynamics has released a detailed breakdown of user data gathered during over 300,000 sessions of Waltz of the Wizard gameplay. Launched in May 2016, the motion-controlled VR game was developed with the insights gained from using Aldin’s own data visualisation tool Ghostline.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

According to the just-released December figures from Steam’s Hardware & Software Survey, the Oculus Rift has for the first time claimed the ‘Most Popular’ designation on the platform. SEE ALSO HTC: Valve is Still "very committed" to Making its Three Full VR Games. Data courtesy Valve. Data courtesy Valve.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Someone compared this news to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook , and I agree: Pico is a very smart startup, like Oculus was, and Bytedance is a very rich company that controls one of the most popular social networks, like Facebook. As it has happened with Oculus, this news is good and bad for Pico and VR in general.

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MARCH 19, 2017

In a new report from IDC (International Data Corporation), the market research firm predicts a near 10 fold increase in the shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets in the next 4 years, bolstered by a plethora of new devices and “expanding array of content for both consumer and enterprise users.” billion in 2016 to $18.6

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JANUARY 2, 2017

We don’t have a clear idea on precisely how many units have been sold for the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Daydream View, or any other major headset on the market. Homido Grab (targeted at children, first released in September 2016) has sold 63,000 units total. Do these types of sales figures surprise you?

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JANUARY 1, 2017

Research about this rapid decline was conducted and issued by iiMedia Research, a third-party data collector and analyst of technological digital platforms. In October, we wrote about how HTC took the lead in opening the first Vive-branded cafe in Shenzhen. And this reaches all the way up to the major players. It’s growing.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Sairento , which plays like a mashup between Raw Data (2017) and Superhot VR (2017) , offers players the chance to become an agile super-ninja, wielding swords, guns, bows, and more. The game has been released across all major VR platforms (Steam, Oculus, and Viveport), and holds respectable ratings across the board.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The game will be released in Early Access and only with official support for the HTC Vive, though the developer says that support for the Rift is expected “really soon.” Construct Studio also developed The Price of Freedom VR (2016). ” Image courtesy Construct Studio.

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