IDC Sees Skyrocketing VR Hardware Market in 2016
IDC sees worldwide shipments of virtual reality hardware skyrocketing in 2016, with total volume reaching 9.6 million units worth $2.3 billion, the research firm said in a Thursday report. In 2016, the first major “tethered” VR devices from Oculus, HTC…
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and Sony "should drive combined shipments of over 2 million units," IDC said. "When you combine this with robust shipments of screenless viewers from Samsung and other vendors launching later this year, you start to see the beginning of a reasonable installed base for content creators to target." IDC expects augmented reality hardware “to take longer to bring to market,” it said. "While development kits from players such as Microsoft, Meta, and others point to a strong future in AR hardware, these devices are dramatically harder to produce than VR products."