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2016 VR sales were below almost everyone's predictions. Rift and Vive under 500K units. PlayStation under 1M (with market analysts backtracking on their estimat
by callmeed 10y ago
2016 VR sales were below almost everyone's predictions. Rift and Vive under 500K units. PlayStation under 1M (with market analysts backtracking on their estimates last month).
For FB, I see it as a moonshot project much like the various things Google does. Being a moonshot project doesn't guarantee you success.
As for investments, I think we've entered an era where everyone is afraid of being disrupted by a startup or missing out on a unicorn. Now, you have large companies putting money into VR projects and VCs scrambling to fund anything VR-related. I think a similar thing happened with smart watches and wearables.
I don't know enough about the state of VR interfaces for work, but it seems ideal for specialized industries (medicine, military, etc.).