By 2026, total AR/VR goggle sales will trail a single quarter of current tablet shipments
But there’s one big category of tech that AR/VR headwear looks set to outstrip: gaming consoles, which between Sony’s PlayStation, Microsoft’s Xbox and Nintendo’s Switch struggle to shift 30 million units a quarter.
So maybe this whole metaverse thing has legs: if IDC is right there will be over 100 million AR/VR devices in circulation by 2026, and that fleet will grow about as fast as the world’s console collection.And on current form, those developers will have to do things Mark Zuckerberg’s way, because Meta’s Quest 2 headset has owned 84.6 percent of the global AR/VR headset market during the first three quarters of 2022. ByteDance's Pico is next with 7.4 percent share.
IDC believes the market will heat up as Sony launches a next-gen product and Apple gets into the game. "Augmented reality has long been the domain of standalone headsets geared towards commercial use, helping to transform the way companies train their workers," said Ramon T. Llamas, research director, Mobile Devices and AR/VR at IDC."While these have been sophisticated in their use, the form factor has sometimes been a challenge within certain work environments.
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