In case you’re questioning what all of the hubbub is about with Fb altering its identify to Meta—so it might probably think about the Metaverse (no matter that seems to be, actually), and never fear a lot about its sordid previous (and current) as a social community—then you might want to take into consideration digital actuality and augmented actuality. As a result of each are key to the Metaverse, and each require particular {hardware} in your eyes. And Fb owns the preferred model of such a headset on this planet. (It does not damage that, as you may see above, main enterprise sectors are additionally embracing the tech.)
This analysis was performed by Sport.co.uk. It discovered based mostly on search phrases from the final 12 months that “vr oculus quest 2″—the most recent Oculus headset launched by Meta-owned Oculus in October 2020—dominates. It accounts for 368,000 searches, whereas simply “oculus quest” is quantity 2 at 110,000 searches. The third greatest is the PlayStation VR, a Sony sport console-only headset with 60,500 searches, the place we lastly break freed from the Meta grip.
They dove into not solely the market share for the completely different main units, but additionally the place they’re bought. It does not matter what nation, Oculus is the highest model.
Additionally attention-grabbing was its take a look at Google tendencies searches in several places for VR vs AR to see which had extra traction. Proper now in america, augmented actuality leads.
Searches for VR and AR data total have gone up 5,800% within the final 12 months. Perhaps Meta is on to one thing. Assuming we are able to nonetheless name it Meta because the identify change will get challenged. Maybe that will even affect the corporate’s acknowledged plan to additionally ditch the Oculus model. They could have been higher off renaming the dad or mum firm to Oculus.