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The Google Cardboard-style VR and chinese clones are outselling Oculus and Vives by an order of magnitude at least. Cardboard itself is 10 million viewers: ht
by GFischer 9y ago
The Google Cardboard-style VR and chinese clones are outselling Oculus and Vives by an order of magnitude at least.
Cardboard itself is 10 million viewers:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/google-has-shipped-10m-cardboard-vr-viewers-160m-cardboard-app-downloads/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/google-has-shipped-10m-car...
Samsung shipped almost 5 million:
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/56150/6-3-million-vr-headsets-shipped-2016/index.html https://www.tweaktown.com/news/56150/6-3-million-vr-headsets...
The Chinese VR glasses are sold everywhere in Latin America (I'm not sure if they're actually used or just a novelty item), and I expect them to be in the tens of millions too.
- ashark 9y agoDo people actually use phone-based VR for anything? I got to try one of the Google phones in VR mode for a few minutes and was... thoroughly underwhelmed. It was ugly and unconvincing enough, and so low on interactivity (necessarily, best I could tell, having no input device other than the phone itself) that I can't imagine actually using it on a regular basis, and I'm the guy with a 10-year-old TV and similar-vintage monitor, so my standards aren't exactly high. I'd probably sell or throw away one of the headsets, given it for free. Do people actually use them much? And if so, what for?
- GFischer 9y agoHonestly I can't tell... I do see them being sold, maybe as a trap gift for grandparents. I've heard of people using it to watch YouTube or Netflix as a replacement for a big TV (most people have a phone but not everyone has a big TV in his room here).