AR, VR Headset Shipments to Rise at 56.1% CAGR Through 2021, Says IDC
Combined global shipments of headsets for augmented and virtual reality will rise at a 56.1 percent compound annual growth rate the next five years, reaching 81.2 million units by the end of 2021, IDC said in a Thursday report. VR…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
headsets will have more than 90 percent of the market until 2019, but in the final two years of the forecast, IDC expects AR headsets “to experience exponential growth,” capturing 25 percent share by 2021, it said. “AR headset shipments today are a fraction of where we expect them to be in the next five years, both in terms of volume and functionality," said IDC. They’re also “on track” to generate more than $30 billion in global revenue by 2021, almost twice that of VR headsets, since most AR models will carry much higher average selling prices, it said.