Steam Hardware Survey - July 2025 results included (see latest post in this thread)

Could be, last year January 2019 showed a 14% increase, but this year the increase was 51%. The 0.87% in Dec 2019 was strangely low though, like some had removed their hmd and then reattached it. Maybe the real increase was more like 25 to 30%... but still that would be much higher than the Christmas effect last year.
I'd expect to see effects of Stormland and Asgard's Wrath in Dec, although you're right that the current time is a great one for VR adoption due to the many AAA-like titles. S&S arrived Jan 23, I doubt that game has had a great impact on Steam hmd numbers, but maybe next month...

Should increase a bit more this week. A couple of friends of mine are coming over to try my Rift S and I'm pretty sure they're going to buy one afterwards.

Spark has never tried VR before and Lauren has only tried a rollercoaster at a party so I think they'll both jump on it. Particularly when Spark tries VR Porn lol ?

snowdog said:

Should increase a bit more this week. A couple of friends of mine are coming over to try my Rift S and I'm pretty sure they're going to buy one afterwards.

Spark has never tried VR before and Lauren has only tried a rollercoaster at a party so I think they'll both jump on it. Particularly when Spark tries VR Porn lol ?

Nice, be careful with the locomotion though, one of my friends experienced profound motion sickness the last time, I probably should not have let him take a walk in Stormland  :(
So First Contact, The Lab Robot Repair, Beat Saber, Art Plunge, Moss ... ;-)

snowdog said:

Should increase a bit more this week. A couple of friends of mine are coming over to try my Rift S and I'm pretty sure they're going to buy one afterwards.

Spark has never tried VR before and Lauren has only tried a rollercoaster at a party so I think they'll both jump on it. Particularly when Spark tries VR Porn lol ?

Be interested to hear what Lauren thinks of VR Porn. Most of it is catered towards men but the 1% that isn't might appeal. My missus tried it with a mixed reaction. I think the bottom-line is these things need to be shot/directed by women on the basis of appealing to women. Not men thinking they know what is appealing to women. 

Interesting group mechanic you got going on there Snowdog.   +1:

@runesr2 what I meant was, the same rule that applies to HLA  can also apply to S&S. Obviously less anticipation with S&S unless you're a WD fan. People don't rush out and buy the headsets on the day of the game release. I assume then some would have looked at the release schedule before-hand and purchased a VR headset based on the upcoming releases as well as what's available now.

The quality of games being released lately is the reason for more headset sales. I think that's quite clear to see and I just hope game devs continue to create quality content instead of some of the rubbish we see. I also hope some of the large devs houses don't just continue to ignore VR, given we have small groups of devs making quality content for VR. All this just goes to show what a few quality games can do.

Unfortunately my Oculus CV1 is on it's last legs and I'm struggling to find a VR headset to replace it. I have a HP Reverb but it has some limitations. I just wish I could find a VR headset that matched the HP Reverb resolution and had better controllers with more camera's or outside in tracking.

RedRizla said:

The quality of games being released lately is the reason for more headset sales. I think that's quite clear to see and I just hope game devs continue to create quality content instead of some of the rubbish we see. I also hope some of the large devs houses don't just continue to ignore VR, given we have small groups of devs making quality content for VR. All this just goes to show what a few quality games can do.

Unfortunately my Oculus CV1 is on it's last legs and I'm struggling to find a VR headset to replace it. I have a HP Reverb but it has some limitations. I just wish I could find a VR headset that matched the HP Reverb resolution and had better controllers with more camera's or outside in tracking.

If you don't want Rift-S or Quest Link, then I think it's hard not being able to use CV1 due to asw 2.0, but to some degree also due to oled.

You could consider Vive Pro with Knuckles, but that'll be more expensive than the Index. Or get Index - or Pimax, but due to Alyx being just 1 of 3 Valve flagships I chose Index, also to support Valve's initiative - haven't regretted that decision. 

RuneSR2 said:

snowdog said:

Should increase a bit more this week. A couple of friends of mine are coming over to try my Rift S and I'm pretty sure they're going to buy one afterwards.

Spark has never tried VR before and Lauren has only tried a rollercoaster at a party so I think they'll both jump on it. Particularly when Spark tries VR Porn lol ?

Nice, be careful with the locomotion though, one of my friends experienced profound motion sickness the last time, I probably should not have let him take a walk in Stormland  :(
So First Contact, The Lab Robot Repair, Beat Saber, Art Plunge, Moss ... ;-)

Yup, I'm going to do the following in this order:

1) Dreamdeck
2) First Contact
3) Google Earth VR
4) TheBlu
5) Robo Recall
6) Elven Assassin
7) The Climb
8) SuperHOT VR
9) Dreadhalls
10) Face Your Fears
11) Skyrim VR
12) Fallout 4 VR
13) Five Nights At Freddy's VR
14) Elite Dangerous
15) War Thunder
16) Project CARS 2

I think Lauren will be okay regarding sim sickness because she's a gamer but not sure about Spark.

I had to put FNAF VR at number 13 ?

How long can OculusVR still continue to support Oculus Rift (CV1)?

kevinw729 said:

How long can OculusVR still continue to support Oculus Rift (CV1)?

Oculus stopped selling CV1 in March 2019, but shops had supplies for longer, and you got 2 years of warranty in the EU. I'd say at least until 2022.

Also Oclulus still sells brandnew CV1 sensors and Touch, these also come with 2 years of warranty. I doubt that Oculus has any plans of not supporting the CV1 the next years.