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JANUARY 10, 2022

Such sentiments reflect the backlash to VR’s circa-2016 hype cycle. And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Now as Q4 winds down, we continue the tradition with a critical mass of milestones for a VR data roundup. Oculus Quest 2 grows to 35 percent of SteamVR headset usage. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Seven months after its initial Steam debut and Survios’ Raw Data remains one of our favorite co-op action games on the HTC Vive, even while its still in Early Access. And pretty soon, it will be on the Oculus Rift too with official Oculus Home and Touch integration. pic.twitter.com/f7wRuotvA2. pic.twitter.com/f7wRuotvA2.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Such sentiments reflect the backlash to VR’s circa-2016 hype cycle. And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Now as Q3 winds down, we continue the tradition with a critical mass of milestones for a VR data roundup. One ongoing misperception in the tech world is that VR has stalled out. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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JULY 2, 2021

Such sentiments reflect the backlash to VR’s circa-2016 hype cycle. And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Now, at the end of Q2, we continue the tradition with a critical mass of milestones for another VR data roundup. Pavlov Shack gained 3,000 more players after its Oculus App Lab launch. —

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VRScout

APRIL 3, 2019

More lifelike avatars and a new avatar editor arrive on Oculus Rift & Go headsets. Since launching in December of 2016, Oculus Avatars has brought a much-needed sense of humanity to the Oculus platform, allowing users to interact with one another on a personal level while in VR.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

Such sentiments reflect the backlash to VR’s circa-2016 hype cycle. And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 launched. Now, two months later, there’s a critical mass of milestones for another VR data roundup. Oculus’s Android App?—?an Oculus Quest 2 is now the most-used VR headset on Steam. -

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

These sentiments represent the pendulum swing from VR’s overhyped status circa 2016. And that demand was given a place to go when Oculus Quest 2 Launched. Now just a month later, there’s already a critical mass of milestones for another VR data roundup. Some have even pronounced its time of death. But demand remained strong.

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Road to VR

APRIL 1, 2021

While Facebook has yet to reveal official unit sales figures for Oculus Quest 2, various data points the company has offered, along with data from developers, has allowed us to hone in on a reasonable estimate. The last data point the company shared is that PSVR reached 5 million unit sales as of January 1st, 2020.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store. Finally, Penrose Studios’ award-winning narrative VR experience is available for the Oculus Rift for $7.99. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Griffith of VR.”

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Road to VR

APRIL 7, 2017

With the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive shipping one year ago this month, Valve is getting in on the ‘VR Anniversary’ action with deep discounts on more than 200 VR titles and free-play access to Raw Data (2016) and Tilt Brush (2016). Free-play Raw Data and Tilt Brush All Weekend. Dig 4 Destruction.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Starting toward the end of 2017, the number of listed job openings at Oculus has nearly tripled, with the current number of openings floating around an all time high. The number of openings has spiked significantly since November, data collected from the last 20 months by Road to VR shows. Data collected by Road to VR.

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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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JUNE 7, 2017

IDC started to collect market share data for VR and AR shipments since Q1 2016 and just reported their Q1 numbers for 2017. For Q1 IDC reported 2,241,000 headsets being sold, that is lower than the 3,825,500 headsets sold in Q4 of 2016. However, compared to Q1 of 2016, it is a 69% increase from 1,321,300 units to 2,241,600.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While Oculus doesn’t offer much publicly in the way of understanding how well individual apps are performing across its VR storefronts, it’s possible to glean some insight by looking at apps relative to each other. Here’s a snapshot of the top 20 Oculus Rift games and apps. Oculus Rift. Name. $10. Witchblood.

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Road to VR

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. Announced at E3 2017, Raw Data will launch out of Early Access simultaneously on Vive, Rift and PSVR in September, bringing a wealth of improvements to its already polished Early Access state.

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Ultimately Oculus stole headlines at CES — for both better and worse — with the launch of pre-orders for the Rift. Oculus had already set everyone’s expectations. The $599 price tag for Vive’s biggest rival kept people guessing about just how much the more fully featured room-scale headset would really cost.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Google has partnered with CyArk , the non-profit studio behind VR app MasterWorks: Journey Through History (2018), to expand CyArk’s mission to 3D laser-scan the world’s historical sites and provide open access to the data. Google and CyArk are making the source data of the models available to anyone interested.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

MARCH 5, 2020

Google has taken its sweet time bringing its VR creation app Tilt Brush (2016) to PSVR, although having recently slimmed down the app to fit on the modest mobile chipset of Oculus Quest may have given the company needed incentive to finally launch on PSVR. Image courtesy Gamstat.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The ‘Summer of Rift’ is coming to a close, with Oculus announcing today that September 4th is the last day to nab the $400 Summer Rift sale price. The cap off the eight week headset sale, Oculus is running an ‘End of Summer Weekend Sale’ featuring two bundle deals and 30 individual titles on sale.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

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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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. Close to that.”

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VRScout

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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VRScout

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Facebook looks to up the Oculus ante by investing in eye-tracking technology. With 2016 coming to a close, it’s time to start looking toward the state of virtual reality in 2017. ” Now the company will be bringing this exciting tech to Oculus, hopefully adding a whole new dynamic to the already impressive headset.

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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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Road to VR

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. The post Steam 2016 Autumn Sale Discounts Nearly 300 VR Supported Titles appeared first on Road to VR.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2016

There’s been a lot of talk about the latest data from Valve’s latest Steam Hardware & Software survey , most of it drawing erroneous conclusions about overall market share of VR headsets while missing out on a very interesting data point. See Also: HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Install Base, Steam Data Suggests.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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AllThingsVR

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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AR Insider

JANUARY 6, 2020

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. An overhyped 2016-2017 was followed by a bad hangover in ’18 and ’19.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 22, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of the sobering realities of industry shakeout and retraction. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Oculus Link, and hand tracking).

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Road to VR

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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