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15Jan/20Off

Here’s The Good News About Virtual Reality

960x0-2Boneworks and Superhot VR

Boneworks, the experimental physics VR adventure which launched just before the holiday season, reached 100,000 players in its first week. This equates to an estimated $3 million in revenue. To put this into perspective, Beat Saber made $2 million in revenue in its first month. In addition, Boneworks was only released on Steam, making those figures even more impressive!

Superhot VR, one of the most popular VR games out there, also saw great success over the holiday period. The company announced the game grossed $2 million across all platforms in the week over Christmas. This roughly equates to 80,000 copies of the game being purchased across PSVR and Oculus platforms in seven days. 

Oculus Quest

Since its release in 2019, Oculus Quest has seen steady sales and helped to thrust VR into the mainstream. Oculus Quest is Facebook’s first all-in-one headset that offers six degrees of freedom (6DoF) tracking.

The Quest was such a hot item over the holidays, the device sold out pre-Christmas and we saw the resale price of the headset going up to 157% of the retail price.

Valve Index And Half-Life

Valve’s flagship Half-Life: Alyx VR game garnered a lot of positive media attention at the end of 2019. With more than 10 million views of the traileracross YouTube and Twitter in its first 24 hours, widespread media coverage, and tens of thousands of social media comments, it was impossible to ignore the news.

The announcement of the game has resulted in the Valve Index VR headset selling out across all 31 regions where sold.

See the full story here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/solrogers/2020/01/15/heres-the-good-news-about-virtual-reality/#7534bfed3196

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