Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew.

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• 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  that’s terrifying. fuck Facebook. so mad that they took oculus from us

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don‘t know about that. That Oculus founder seems worse than Suckerberg somehow.

    However I still think that somehow Facebook‘s dominance bottlenecks the VR industry right now. Their little data extractors are ironically too cheap for a healthy and vibrant VR economy, keeping competition and ideas out that the industry needs so desperately.

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    • Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Plus the early adopters are not going to be lay-people, they are going to be tech enthusiests and people who know what they are shopping for. Having Meta and their data harvesting gadgets all over your home is something they would be very concious of, and in my case, avoid entirely for that reason.

      The outcome, is dispite the lower cost to get a VR headset, a lot of people still havent entered the space yet, due to the security concerns and refusal to accept the data collection terms of more afordable devices.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Years after the initial releases VR still very much feels like a solution looking for a problem. As long as the industry doesn’t figure out why it should even exist there will likely just be a slow decline and there is no chance for growth.

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    • Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I respect palmer luckey for what he as done for VR and what he still does. Yea i’m not a fan of the defence contracts but even there he did some cool stuff.

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• WormFood@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  in my opinion the market is too segmented. Facebook took Oculus and refocused them onto standalone vr instead of pcvr, and secluded away a bunch of releases as Oculus exclusives. psvr is in a similar state. there isn’t enough vr software being made to support two separate walled gardens plus steamvr. in their rush to establish a vr monopoly, Facebook killed it. that’s my opinion

  I’ll be hanging onto my vive cosmos for occasional games of beat saber but I think vr at this point has become an expensive novelty

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    but I think vr at this point has become an expensive novelty

    Always has been. I went to demonstrations of this tech in the nineties when I was in college. It was going to be the next big thing. That never happened. It seems to come back every few years and then fade out again.

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    • shikitohno@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s seems like the 3d movies of the tech world. Every so often, they release a new iteration, tell us it’ll change everything, and while people get excited at first, they rapidly realize it’s not as useful as it was presented and often impractical. Start developing the next gen version, rinse and repeat.

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    • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, when I had some extra money I considered getting VR but ultimately decided that it would be a waste & I’d only use it for 1-2 games then never tough it again.

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quest 3 is relatively affordable and provides excellent pcvr experience.
    There really aren’t and have never been any such offerings in this price level, and wireless is an absolute game changer.

    The fact that most people use it as standalone is understandable. It’s like pc vs a console - regular people just want to press power and go.

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• Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I kinda find it shocking apple did have 9% of the new shipments at some point.

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• DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m really sad VR went the way it did over the past decade. I was blown away with the simplicity and affordability of it when Google Cardboard launched. The standalone VR devices of today could have been just our current phones put inside head mounted brackets: easily available for most of us for cheap.

  Besides gaming, VR has loads of cool educational uses. I find myself repeatedly going back to Google Earth VR on my Vive just to explore (both in 3D and street view mode) random places that I might never visit in real life.

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meta ruined it. Just poisoned the entire industry. Short of Valve stepping back into the ring, I see the tech shriveling until Apple glasses finally launches in 2099.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is the Valve Index really that unpopular? Or is it not included in the list for some reason?

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  • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Index is pretty old and expensive. I’d love to have it, but there are also third-party headsets that are Index-compatible that are quite impressive.

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    • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also they never sold it in many countries.

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• randomname@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the vision pro is the most laughable excuse for a product i’ve ever seen, over 3000 dollars for a VR headset that cant play games and cant connect to a PC is insane. its a glorified web browser that makes your face sweaty.

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• Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sadly there isn’t even any company I could see making a dent in this in the near future. The Pico did something but not enough and Valve’s new headset will be too expensive to get a major %

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    if Valve can get it working with the steamdeck… oh man that could be pretty awesome

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    • Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The new headset will be standalone as far as we know so it’ll run games on its own like the quest does!

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  • Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m hoping the google XR OS will make the number of affordable headsets rise and new companies getting in the VR market.

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m so stupid excited for the Samsung headset they showed off. I use my quest in XR/MR almost every single day and its so close to being really good.

      I will absolutely be picking it up, and I’m willing to be a guinea pig for this

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  like AI, corportions are obssesed with pushing a product onto consumer where theres no demand.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is demand, but there are no truly great headsets. Vision can barely match quest and quest has way more contect, but it’s heavy and they seem to be slowly dropping PCVR support. HTC seems out of the game. Valve might come up with something in the future, but for now it’s just… barely an improvement in video quality from my PCVR headset from like 8 years ago.

    I hope China enters the game.

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    • eleitl@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And it’s all proprietary walled garden. I have no interest in VR if it’s not free/libre.

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    • CrowLady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Bit late to the party but there’s Pico if you want China to enter VR competition. I changed from Quest 2 to Pico 4 Ultra and I don’t regret it. Almost all the games I had on the Quest are also available for Pico and if that is not enough there’s still the possibility to use it as PC headset.

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• aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not showing the “Other” percentage on the graph is extremely misleading.

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It probably doesnt show the percentage if its 2%. I dont think that little of a portion would make the graph extremely misleading

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