

"Meta has led the AR/VR industry by offering a very accessibly priced headset and by moving beyond the core gaming audience, piquing the interest of non-gamers as well as businesses,” said Jitesh Ubrani, research manager for IDC Mobility and Consumer Device Trackers. Reinforcing the Quest 2's established and unchallenged place at the top of the monthly Steam hardware survey, IDC reports that Meta's Quest 2 was by far the most popular product with 78% share of the combined AR/VR market during the year.

IDC says this was, "A record year that hasn't seen similar volumes since 2016 when low-cost VR screenless viewers such as Samsung's Gear VR reigned supreme".

With nearly 15mn units sold since its announcement at Connect 7 in Sep 2020, the Quest2 has contributed to massive growth in VR sales & consumer adoption."Īlthough Jeronimo states that "VR Sales grew 97% in 2021", according to the IDC's Worldwide Quarterly AR/VR Headset Tracker, the global market for augmented and virtual reality headsets grew 92.1% year over year in 2021, with almost half the annual volume shipped during the holiday season. Jeronimo said, "OculusQuest2 is the most successful #VR headset to date.
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That compares favourably with the latest combined sales data for Series X/S at 11.4 million to year end 2021, at which time Quest 2 was just 0.2m behind. Standalone VR headset Quest 2 from Meta (formerly Oculus under Facebook) has outsold Microsoft's Xbox Series X/S consoles, according to the latest information from the International Data Corporation (IDC).Īccording to a Tweet by Francisco Jeronimo, associate VP, devices EMEA, lifetime unit sales for Quest 2 have now exceeded 14.8 million.
