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APRIL 1, 2020

Valve’s long running Steam Survey has been one of the most transparent data sources for gauging which VR headsets are the most used. Our last major analysis of the Survey data is here. Previously, the company explained, VR headsets were counted by the Survey only if they were plugged in via USB at the time the data was collected.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

In the latest set of data from Vale’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the Vive Pro has finally made an official entrance and shows that the gap between Rift and Vive isn’t as wide as it appeared. Participation in the survey is optional. Why 5 months prior?

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Valve says it fixed “collection and analysis” issues with the Steam Hardware Survey’s VR section. Last week we published an article outlining r ecent anomalies in the Steam Hardware Survey ’s VR section, including large unexplained jumps in the key ‘Steam users with VR Headsets’ figure.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Valve’s monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam. Participation in the survey is optional. Image courtesy Valve. tracking standard.

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MAY 13, 2019

As the VR market is poised for a handful of new headsets launching in the coming weeks, the latest Steam Survey unsurprisingly shows Vive and Windows VR making some gains after Oculus discontinued the Rift ahead of the launch of the Rift S.

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MARCH 2, 2019

The latest data from Valve’s Steam Survey shows the Rift and Windows VR headsets continuing growth streaks in their share of monthly-connected headsets on Steam, snatching share mostly from the Vive and Vive Pro.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Recent anomalies in the Steam Hardware Survey’s VR section suggest it has become unreliable. Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. Historically the Steam Hardware Survey was the the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption.

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APRIL 8, 2024

The Steam Hardware & Software Survey reports the percentage of Steam users that use a VR headset on SteamVR each month. This figure has been gradually trending down since March 2020, when Valve changed the survey's methodology to scan your SteamVR logs for the past month instead of only currently connected headsets.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

That’s one of the primary questions we want to help VR devs answer with a survey which aims to understand real VR users. Wanting to help developers understand that question, we’ve created a survey in conjunction with our friends at Greenlight Insights, a VR and AR market intelligence firm.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

In the latest set of data from Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the Oculus Rift and Windows VR headsets posted gains in marketshare at the expense of the HTC Vive. Participation in the survey is optional. Image courtesy Valve.

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DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s user base each month. of SteamVR users in November, a significant increase from 0.15% in October when the headset launched and first showed up on the survey. Quest 3 was the headset of choice for 5.2% Quest 3 was the headset of choice for 5.2%

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MAY 4, 2022

It also predicts markets going forward and highlights some specific hardware and software options. Working on hardware and software for enterprise and education, this group has been interested in long-term trends and solutions for years. Accelerate Your Organization’s Digital Transformation. That growth could lead to $45.6

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JANUARY 30, 2023

While VR and AR remain a comparatively small segment of the games industry, the industry is taking notice as VR hardware in particular improves. VR and AR in the Larger Games Industry This GDC survey, the 11th in an annual series, found that “the metaverse has become more than a buzzword.”

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The data point comes from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey. The hardware survey counts using Quest as a PC VR headset via Valve's Steam Link app, Meta's (Air) Link mode, and the third-party app Virtual Desktop. Quest 3 was the fourth most used VR headset on Steam in December, surpassing the original HTC Vive.

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MAY 25, 2022

The survey of 2,500 US consumers between the ages of 18 and 64 went beyond the numbers to ask consumers about their VR purchases, but also how they use XR and how they think and feel about it. From the start, the survey doesn’t pull punches. Fortunately, the survey did reveal more about headset owners specifically.

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JUNE 2, 2020

Valve just released its Steam Hardware Survey for May , and it seems there’s been zero pull-back in connected headsets one month after the usership surge. Granted, Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware Survey only tells a part of the story when it comes to its VR users.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the platform’s population, and to see how things are changing over time, including the use of VR headsets. Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam. Share of VR Headsets on Steam. Windows VR headsets ( ?0.99%

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MARCH 2, 2018

According to Valve’s February Steam hardware and software survey, the Oculus Rift is now the most used VR headset on the Steam platform, taking the market share of VR headsets on Steam with a near 2% lead over its competitor HTC Vive. This is the first time Rift has surpassed Vive in Valve’s monthly survey.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The data comes from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey. The hardware survey includes Quest via Valve's Steam Link app, Meta's (Air) Link mode, or the third-party app Virtual Desktop. Quest 3 was the third most used VR headset on Steam in January, surpassing Oculus Rift S and almost catching up to Valve Index.

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JULY 2, 2018

The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn’t revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets are making slow, but steady headway on the platform. Participation in the survey is optional.

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AR Insider

MAY 21, 2020

And how can VR software developers and hardware players optimize product strategies accordingly? adults in Thrive’s established consumer survey engine. At a high level, 19 percent of consumers surveyed have bought or used a VR headset, up from 16 percent in 2019. These are key questions at VR’s early stages. million in 2019.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. The Steam Hardware Survey remains the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. The survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s userbase each month. But could a clue lie in another section of the Hardware Survey?

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APRIL 3, 2018

Valve’s monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out, and it appears Oculus Rift is still gaining momentum over HTC Vive on the Steam platform as the number one VR headset among Steam users. Participation in the survey is optional. There’s still a contingent of Oculus DK2 owners still playing through Steam.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Last month we noted that the portion of users with VR headsets on Steam had dropped sharply from 2.31% to 1.86% , according to the data provided by Valve in the monthly Steam Survey. This was an anomaly compared to the occasional up-and-downs seen in the data previously.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 27, 2022

360 photographers can use the hardware to create real-time 3D (RT3D) digital twins of locations. Many firms are adopting photogrammetry for a range of use cases, with companies such as RUAS and Optelos employing Lidar-powered surveying technologies to provide rich RT3D data of physical locations. ‘Unpacking’ Mosaic X.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 20, 2021

Working closely with Thrive Analytics , ARtillery Intelligence authored questions to be fielded through its established survey engine to more than 46,000 U.S. Following the last episode on the corresponding AR survey data, we now dive into consumer VR flavor of the study. VR Usage & Consumer Attitudes, Wave V. Keep it Simple.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

A Road to VR analysis of the latest data from Valve’s Steam Hardware & Software shows that VR users on Steam have not only been growing, but are at their highest point in history. Not only has the tech has fostered a strong enthusiast community, but that group continues to grow.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

According to latest set of data from Valve’s monthly Steam Hardware & Software survey, the number of VR headsets on Steam has reached a new record. Participation in the survey is optional. Meanwhile, the Vive Pro and Windows VR headsets have reached new peaks in their share of VR headsets on Steam.

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JULY 12, 2021

Valve has committed to making Steam a hardware agnostic place for VR headsets, even going so far as actively maintaining the code that makes Oculus headsets work on the platform in the first place. The latest update to SteamVR, version 1.18.5, The update comes as Quest 2 reaches 31.07% of all VR headsets in use on Steam.

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MARCH 6, 2023

This partnership resulted in the full equipment of the entire school system with the necessary hardware and applications. Thanks to the partnership with a local company specializing in developing VR solutions for the educational field, Lobaki , the school district’s 19,000 students will soon have access to virtual reality in the classroom.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the platform’s population, and to see how things are changing over time, including the use of VR headsets.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Working closely with Thrive Analytics , ARtillery Intelligence authored questions to be fielded through its established survey engine to more than 98,000 U.S. Untethered Orientation Building from the VR hardware sentiments explored in the last installment (what headsets have the best satisfaction?), So we set out for answers.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 10, 2021

Because it’s browser-based, it has broader compatibility with mobile hardware. This scale is also owed to the work of web AR innovators like 8th Wall that have been able to get AR to work on commodity hardware and standard cameras. Web AR meanwhile lingers at 17 percent of survey responses. Indeed, web AR’s best days are ahead.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

The Steam Hardware Survey shows a near quadrupling of VR users in July – but this data is almost certainly erroneous. Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. The Steam Hardware Survey is the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption – or at least was until recently.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered some useful insight into which headsets are actively connected to users computers and the share of the Steam population that’s using each, but the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets on the platform.

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VRWorld

MARCH 7, 2018

The Oculus Rift surpassed the HTC Vive in popularity among Steam users for the first time, according to the results of the latest monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey. The survey, which scans users’ PCs for different hardware components, found that the Oculus Rift accounts for 47.31 percent share of the market.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. Historically the Steam Hardware Survey has been the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. The survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s userbase each month. ” .

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