VR Market Forecast To Top $70B By 2020: TrendForce. TrendForce stated that the VR market can grow to $70 billion by 2020.
The value computed the revenue from both hardware devices and software apps and services, but other research firms disagree with the prediction. (Photo : TrendForce) TrendForce places the total market value of virtual reality hardware and software at a whopping $70 billion by 2020. The forecast shows that the VR hardware should raise $20 billion in sales five years from now, while the software industry will cash in around $50 billion from VR products and services. Consumer Virtual Reality market worth $5.2bn by 2018. That’s one of the headline findings from our latest market sizing report on the Consumer Virtual Reality market.
As part of our latest KZero report – Consumer Virtual Reality, State of the Market, we’ve assessed both hardware and software forecasted sales from 2014 to 2018 (order the free State of the Market report for complete findings or view the Slideshare presentation). Unit Sales and Primary Markets This article drills into some of the detail of our market sizing. First up, unit sales of consumer VR devices (hardware), as shown in the chart below. We’ve split the primary audience for consumer VR into three main groups (Hardcore gamers/Innovators), Light Gamers/Early Adopters and the Kids,Tween and Teen (KT&T) segment. Facebook’s Oculus Likely To Trail In Virtual Reality Market.
Facebook (FB)-owned Oculus VR is a trailblazer in virtual reality headsets, but next year it’s likely to trail in the industry it pioneered, according to a new report.
Samsung’s Gear VR and Sony‘s (SNE) PlayStation VR headsets are poised to outsell Oculus Rift and HTC Vive next year, research firm IHS (IHS) says. IHS predicts that Alphabet‘s (GOOGL) low-cost solution, Google Cardboard, will be the top virtual reality platform in 2016, with 30% market share. Google Cardboard is a do-it-yourself virtual reality system that uses smartphones as the display. The VR systems from Samsung and Sony are seen as tying for second next year, each with 21% market share. Virtual Reality Video Game Industry to Generate $5.1 Billion This Year. Video games will be the key driver of virtual reality hardware this year, according to a new report from SuperData Research.
Game developers will also have a global audience of 55.8 million virtual reality users and produce 38.9 million virtual reality devices this year, according to the report. Consumers will spend $5.1 billion on virtual reality gaming hardware, accessories and software in 2016. That’s up from the $660 million spent in 2015, says the marketing leader. Meanwhile, the global market is expected to grow to $8.9 billion in 2017 and $12.3 billion in 2018. A breakdown of this year’s $5.1 billion global market shows Europe in the lead with a $1.9 billion share and North America close behind with $1.6 billion.
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The two primary challenges VR tech face right now lie in demonstrating useful content to justify the experience, and creating accessible solutions that are either inexpensive enough that anyone can try it or complex enough that users want to make VR a fundamental part of their regular entertainment. Today we're going to talk about accessibility, specifically the push to make your smartphone the key component in the VR experience. We've seen several companies release accessories that you can slide your phone into, and in doing so gain a fairly inexpensive VR experience that can be appreciated anywhere. To accomplish this level of functionality, a lot of things have to be happening in your phone all at once. Here's how it works. NFC Tag Google Cardboard for Topaz 512 NFC Tag with 454 bytes of reprogrammable message memory. You can program a NFC Tag to auto start an app. So, slide your phone into Google cardboard, phone reads the nfc tag and auto launches your favourite vr app.
It is neat, but not useful if you have a lot of VR apps installed. In theory it should allow for automatic configuration for custom (non-Cardboard) headsets (different IPD, focal length, etc.) as an alternative to QR codes. This is actually implemented in Google's updated VR toolkit, but they haven't released any documentation on it so manufacturers don't use this feature yet (as far as I know).
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