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Virtual Reality (VR) - Statistics & Facts
Through the use of specific hardware and software, virtual reality - sometimes called 'immersive multimedia,' as well as 'virtual environment (VE)' or 'computer-simulated life' - can help replicate or create an environment, based on reality or the imagination of the creator. The aim of VR is to create a sensory experience for the user sometimes including sight, touch, hearing, smell, or even taste.
In order to experience virtual reality, the user needs a specific set of hardware. The most important device that helps the user immerse in the virtual environment is probably the head-mounted display (HMD) - a wraparound headset which does not allow light or images from the real world to interfere with the virtual one. The installed base of virtual reality headsets was estimated at around seven million in 2016 and is forecast to grow to 37 million by 2020. The Samsung Gear VR was the best selling VR device in 2016 with 4.3 million units. Other virtual reality devices of which at least 200 thousand units were sold in 2016 include the PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream and the Oculus Rift.
The VR industry is growing at a fast pace, with revenues from virtual reality hardware and software projected to increase from 3.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to more than 40 billion U.S. dollars by 2020. Another forecast projects revenues from the global virtual reality market to reach 21.5 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. Mobile based virtual reality head-mounted displays are forecast to account for about 75 percent of global VR display sales by that time, as the number of mobile virtual reality users worldwide is forecast to grow to more than 130 million.
Virtual Reality (VR) - Important statistics
- 1. Market size forecast
+Global economic impact from virtual and augmented reality technology 2016-2020- Projected size of the augmented and virtual reality market 2016-2020
- +Global augmented, mixed and virtual reality headset revenue 2015-2020
- +Virtual reality hardware and content revenue worldwide 2014-2020, by segment
- +Global virtual reality market share by geography 2015-2019
- +Global revenue from virtual and augmented reality device sales 2016-2020
- +Global shipments of virtual and augmented reality devices 2016-2020
- 2. Hardware & software overview
- +Global virtual reality market size 2016-2020
- +Global virtual reality software market size 2016-2020
- +Worldwide virtual reality software revenue share 2018, by category
- +Global virtual reality hardware market size 2016-2020
- +Global virtual reality hardware unit shipments by product type 2014-2020
- +Global virtual reality hardware unit shipments by type 2016-2020
- 3. Head-mounted displays (HDM)
- +Installed base of virtual reality headsets worldwide 2014-2020
- +VR headsets installed base worldwide 2016-2021
- Global augmented and virtual reality headset shipment forecast 2016-2021
- Global unit shipments of virtual reality head-mounted displays 2015-2017
- Global unit sales of virtual reality head-mounted displays 2016 and 2020
- +Projected AR/VR unit shipments worldwide 2020, by hardware type
- +Global augmented and virtual reality headset sales share by region 2014-2019
- +Projected AR/VR sales revenue worldwide 2020, by hardware type
- 4. Brands & platforms share
- +Projected installed base of virtual reality headsets worldwide 2015-2020, by platform
- +Global consumer/commercial virtual reality hardware shipment share 2015-2020
- Global sales share of VR head-mounted displays 2016 and 2020, by platform
- +Value share of VR headsets 2016, by tech platform
- +Share of virtual reality headset sales value worldwide 2016, by device category
- +Share of virtual reality headset volume sales worldwide 2016
- Global virtual reality device shipments by vendor 2016-2017
- +Global virtual reality headset shipments by brand 2016
- +Installed base share of VR headsets worldwide 2016, by brand
- 5. Developers, users & ASP
- +Top patent holders of VR 2016
- +Investments in virtual/augmented reality companies worldwide 2015-2016
- +Share of developers in North America working on AR and VR content by platform 2016
- +Mobile virtual reality users worldwide 2015-2020
- +VR game genre interest in the U.S. 2016
- +VR standalone HMD average selling price 2015-2020
- +VR tethered HMD average selling price 2015-2020
- +VR screenless viewer average selling price 2015-2020
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