VR sales to 'skyrocket'

Virtual reality headset sales will explode this year, according to IDC. Applying its trademark number-of-units-sold forecaster to the VR market for the first time, IDC reckoned 9.6 million VR hardware units will be sold in 2016, worth a total of $2.3bn – an increase of 183.8 per cent on last year. Samsung, Sony, HTC and …

[BugabooSue]

Well, duh!!

Just like 3DTV sales "skyrocketed." (Then most people got over it, and 3D was no longer "must have.")

I'm sick of these twats pronouncing the bleeding obvious - Gartner, I'm looking at you as well!!

[I want VR to succeed - this time. I was around in in the 80's, 90's... where it looked like 3D and VR were going to make it big. They didn't then, but here's hoping....]

[Barry Rueger]

Re: Well, duh!!

Ack. Beat me to it.

If world + dog concluded that being forced to wear cheap sunglasses to watch TV wasn't worth the hassle, I'm pretty sure that strapping a VR rig on their head will get old equally fast.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Well, duh!!

A cheap ass 1388x768 laptop screen is overkill for most of the content of Netflix, Youtube, Steam...

[robert_m]

Um...

"Samsung, Sony, HTC and Facebook’s Oculus"

Pretty sure that HTC have nothing to do with the Oculus, given that they have developed the HTC Vive which is one of it's main competitors....