{"id":119346,"date":"2021-02-02T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=119346"},"modified":"2024-02-28T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T08:12:58","slug":"oculus-quest-2-is-the-hottest-vr-headset-for-the-2020-21-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/oculus-quest-2-is-the-hottest-vr-headset-for-the-2020-21-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus Quest 2 is the hottest VR headset for the 2020-21 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research agency\u00a0<b>SuperData Research has<\/b>\u00a0published a report that recorded record sales of the\u00a0<b>Oculus Quest 2<\/b>\u00a0VR headset\u00a0in the fourth quarter of last year.\u00a0Experts predict that by the end of 2021, 87% of the VR headset market will be occupied by this model.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Oculus Quest 2 is the hottest VR headset for the 2020-21 season\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/a1e9171a3b67d45f3216bc2f16b70350.jpg\" alt=\"Oculus Quest 2 is the hottest VR headset for the 2020-21 season\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recall that the\u00a0<b>Oculus Quest 2<\/b> VR headset\u00a0went on sale in October last year and in fact in three months\u00a0<b>Facebook<\/b>\u00a0was able to sell more than 1 million copies of the virtual reality headset.\u00a0The report\u00a0<b>SuperData Research<\/b>\u00a0indicates that the second generation of\u00a0<b>Oculus Quest<\/b>\u00a0spared in terms of sales of the first generation model due to lower cost.\u00a0In quantitative terms, the second place is taken by the\u00a0<b>PlayStation VR<\/b>\u00a0helmet\u00a0(125 thousand pieces), followed by the\u00a0<b>Valve Index<\/b>\u00a0headset\u00a0(61 thousand) and another model from\u00a0<b>Oculus<\/b>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<b>Rift \/ Rift S<\/b>\u00a0(55 thousand).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Oculus Quest 2 is the hottest VR headset for the 2020-21 season\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/b7f5e408e6f6e99fb618a6a63a5f7e06.jpg\" alt=\"Oculus Quest 2 is the hottest VR headset for the 2020-21 season\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, until the end of last year, demand for the\u00a0<b>Oculus Quest 2<\/b>\u00a0was higher than supply, which caused the manufacturer to experience supply problems.\u00a0By the beginning of the new year, there was a deficit.\u00a0But today the headset can already be ordered freely on the official website.\u00a0Price\u00a0<b>Oculus Quest 2<\/b>\u00a0will start from\u00a0<b>$ 299<\/b>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Oculus Quest 2 is the hottest VR headset for the 2020-21 season\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2014e6b1b55893db16423f90cee7607a.jpg\" alt=\"Oculus Quest 2 is the hottest VR headset for the 2020-21 season\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recall that the\u00a0<b>Oculus Quest 2<\/b>\u00a0virtual reality helmet\u00a0is a standalone headset with its own app store.\u00a0That is, it is possible to play on\u00a0<b>Oculus Quest 2<\/b>\u00a0without connecting to a computer.\u00a0However, the usual PC mode is also supported, to which the helmet is connected by cable.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source &#8211;\u00a0<\/i><b><u><\/u><\/b><i>SuperData Research<\/i><i>\u00a0.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research agency\u00a0SuperData Research has\u00a0published a report that recorded record sales of the\u00a0Oculus Quest 2\u00a0VR headset\u00a0in the fourth quarter of last year.\u00a0Experts predict that by the end of 2021, 87% of the VR headset market will be occupied by this model. Recall that the\u00a0Oculus Quest 2 VR headset\u00a0went on sale in October last year and in [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/oculus-quest-2-is-the-hottest-vr-headset-for-the-2020-21-season\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":119347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-119346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}