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As Sales Slide, Virtual Reality Fans Look to a Bright, Untethered Future

posted by martyb on Wednesday December 05 2018, @02:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the virtual-progress dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

El Reg:

Wearable watchers, CCS Insight, had good news and bad news for the virtual and augmented reality industry today. Sales are tanking but look! New hardware!

The report underlines just how much the industry has been driven by users of smartphone-based VR, which peaked at 8 million units in 2017 before plummeting to just 3 million in 2018. The net result is the total VR shipments in 2018 will actually end up less than 2017.

[...] But all is not doom and gloom. Stand-alone VR is tipped to hit the big time in 2019, with 29 million of the wireless beauties expected to ship in 2022.

VR vendors, not least the Facebook-backed Oculus, hope so. The Oculus Quest is due to ship in 2019, free of the pesky wires and PC gear needed with the Rift. A cheaper tetherless variant, the Go, has already shipped.

Meanwhile, virtual reality cafes are empty.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @01:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 05 2018, @01:37PM (#770057)
    I believe the order that drives new technology is porn, games, then everything else.