Superdata: VR grew 30% in 2018

[the-pi-guy]

SuperData: VR grew 30% in 2018 thanks to PSVR, Oculus Quest will be 2019's hit | VentureBeat

After floundering in 2017, virtual reality hardware actually outperformed optimistic sales expectations in 2018, SuperData Research said today, with annual VR revenues reaching $3.6 billion — higher than the Nielsen-owned firm's late 2018 forecast of $3.3 billion. That's a 30 percent year over year increase in revenues, a particularly noteworthy improvement given holiday price drops on some of the leading VR devices.
According to SuperData's Q4 2018 XR market report, Sony's PlayStation VR became the market leader during the holiday quarter, selling 700,000 units — the largest number of headsets sold across any category. By contrast, the standalone Oculus Go sold 555,000 units, with the PC-tethered Oculus Rift and HTC Vive selling 160,000 and 130,000 headsets, respectively

[the-pi-guy]

Awesome stuff.  

Despite huge price cuts on pretty much everything, revenue is up solidly.

[Legend]

2018 better be the start of a trend. It was great for vr.